Intellectual Property High on the G-8 Agenda

Article no: EN20070227-Article-1.4-2007

Intellectual Property High on the G-8 Agenda

Intellectual property rights are supposed to play a crucial role at the coming G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. The subject itself is politically highly explosive. The German federal government?s G-8 agenda leans heavily toward the short-term interests of knowledge owners (= industrialised countries). Thus it contradicts its own claim to assume ?responsibility for the political, economic and social shaping of globalisation?, writes Klaus Liebig.