Wed, May 5th 2021 7:23pm
Mike Masnick
Earlier this week we wrote about the absolutely ridiculous coalition of folks who were lobbying against the US supporting a TRIPS intellectual property waiver to support fighting COVID. As we noted, it was totally expected that Big Pharma would object to it, but the surprising thing was seeing Hollywood and the legacy entertainment industry an industry that
needs COVID to go away to get back to normal coming out
strongly against the waiver as well. They claimed they had to do so since the waiver would apply to copyright as well, but that s nonsense. The waiver (1) explicitly excluded entertainment products and (2) is expressly limited to prevention, containment or treatment of COVID-19.
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