Behind the mumbo-jumbo of "Intellectual Property Rights"

Why should intellectual property rights matter to civil society? Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has affected the public's access to knowledge in the public domain and to copyrighted work, and infiltrated into the domain of food and medicine, threatening the sustainability of indigenous knowledge and biodiversity. What can be done to protect the global commons, and culture and life forms in the public domain that are the heritage of humankind? What can civil society do locally to ensure that IPR legislations respond to social and cultural needs rather to the needs of international capital? - APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor More >> http://africa.rights.apc.org/?apc=he_1&x=288591