The access to drugs and development of new drugs to what are called as neglected diseases in developing nations is a major issue. To what extent intellectual property rights (IPRS) facilitate or hinder this is a controversial issue. The harmonization of global IP regime under TRIPS norms has...

The "community-based" model has generated many of the innovations we use on a daily basis. The social structure created by this model has cultivated many entrepreneurial ventures and even seeded new industries and product categories. The model is based upon the open, voluntary, and collaborative...

The Open Source model of peer production, sharing, revision, and peer review has distilled and labeled the most successful human creative habits into a techno- political movement. This distillation has had costs and benefits. It has been difficult to court mainstream acceptance for such a tangle...