Naveed Yaseen replied on Friday, June 1, 2012 06:52 AM
Dear Saeed, would you mind including a book 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins?
This book was once recommended by Osama bin Laden but it doesn't preach violence. Rather it reveals, in legally provable confessions, injustices of major global institutions against billions of poor people. One link to the book is...
http://crs.itb.ac.id/media/Jurnal/Refs/Landscape/confesi.pdf
On copyright, I myself make my living by creating intellectual property. But set aside the western propaganda on intellectual property rights, I believe our first priority about intellectual property should be it's largest possible utilization. A reasonable compensation to the facilitators of intellectual property should be a secondary priority.
As a small example, several easy to manufacture medicines exist today which can save millions of lives. But just because the poor are unable to pay obnoxious amounts of money to already luxurious lifestyles of intellectual property owners of such medicines, millions die without treatment.
I said above example is small because many forms of productive knowledge are, in long term, lot more powerful in their capability to save and improve lives of whole generations.
So if productive knowledge is not transferred merely due to huge compensation required by otherwise surviving (or even 'chilling') facilitators, thats an extremely sad situation in my opinion. |
