I see that an Australian economist shares @pluralistic 's idea that a suitable reaction to the #TrumpTariffs is to weaken IP laws benefitting US corporations.
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Mr. Doctorow suggests cancelling legal penalties protecting DRM; Prof. Gross favours weakening patent protection of American pharmaceutical companies.
Unlike counter-vailing tariffs, these are measures that would hurt US business and benefit other countries.
The Smart Way to Retaliate Against Trump’s Tariffs
Why make your own citizens pay, when you can make Big Pharma do it instead?Zac Gross (Gross National Product)
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in reply to M. Grégoire • • •weakening IP protection of pharmaceutical companies will hurt a lot of other countries than the US, and given the massive amount of time and money that goes into R&D before their products are available to the public, I am not entirely convinced that it would be a good idea.
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in reply to M. Grégoire • • •Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to M. Grégoire • • •Exactly. US only ”trades fair” when they are benefitting from the deal.
They force your country to adopt legislation that can hurt the local businesses market share, while they promise access to their huge internal market as a return.
That access is now gone, so might as well kill the legislation.