Intellectual Property

The current global Intellectual Property regime is designed to serve the interests of IP owners in developed countries, especially publishers and manufacturers. The Copyleft concept of the Free/Open Source Software movement repurposes that regime to protect the public interest. We can repurpose it yet again to preserve the rights of cultural groups to their own cultures, and of the world at large to the riches of nature, preventing the appropriation of genes and other useful information and materials by corporations and individuals.