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- Against Intellectual Monopoly http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm 10 comments
- Monsanto Owns Us: The Monopoly of Seeds and Intellectual Property Rights http://darkecologies.com/2014/03/16/monsanto-owns-us-the-monopoly-of-seeds-and-intellectual-property-rights/ 124 comments
- The TPP: It's not your party; cry if you want to: American intellectual property rights — let’s call them what they really are, government-enforced monopolies — could be about to go global. http://www.startribune.com/the-tpp-it-s-not-your-party-cry-if-you-want-to/311520221/ 9 comments politics
- Against Intellectual Monopoly http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm 5 comments freeculture
- Seed monopolies lead to harvest of suicides. "[S]eeds are transformed from being a common good into the 'intellectual property' of companies such as Monsanto, for ... farmers, this means deeper debts." http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/eo20090506a2.html 104 comments worldnews
- Current Intellectual Property laws similar to ‘medieval trade monopolies’; two economists from Washington University say 'Abolish copyright and patents to save the economy' http://torrentfreak.com/economists-abolish-copyrightpatents-save-the-economy-090310/? 5 comments business
- Crippling Dominance of Big Pharma, Indian Judge Blocks Bayer's Drug Monopoly Bid: Judge upholds ruling which protects interests of public health over intellectual property http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/13/crippling-dominance-big-pharma-indian-judge-blocks-bayers-drug-monopoly-bid 20 comments worldnews