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[mpalmedo@cptech.org]

The US presidents's Council of Economic Advisors disagrees with the simple
idea that strong IP automatically equals strong economic growth.  They do
favor strong IP, but they see it as one of many things necessary to drive
innovation.  They also acknowledge that strong IP comes with undesirable
social costs.

Excerpts from the 2006 Economic Report of th President on this were
previously posted to ip-health:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2006-March/009223.html

Mike