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Wired 12.02: Lessig says access to drugs in the third world not an IP issue
Topic: Intellectual Property 8:13 pm EST, Feb  9, 2004

] If big pharma price-discriminates rationally, it
] guarantees the following query from some representative
] in some committee hearing: "How come a hospital in Lagos
] spends $1 for this pill, but the local Catholic hospital
] in my district must pay $5,000?" And, of course, in the
] Inquisition that is congressional testimony, there is no
] effective way to answer such a question.

Wired 12.02: Lessig says access to drugs in the third world not an IP issue



 
 
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