[Upd-discuss] Access to Knowledge Treaty

[James Love]

Countries could agree, as a condition of marketing approval for 
medicines, to have disclosures of all trials.

Interesting, the US and EU have, and are pushing everywhere, for a sui 
generis protection of data from trials.  This protection includes an 
exclusive right to rely upon  information from trials, even when no 
patents are involved.

jamie

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Another idea is to require publication of the detaila of drug studies,
> the information that drug companies like to keep secret.
> 
> Another idea is to forbid drug companies to have any control over the
> publication over any research results of research that they fund.
> 
> I wish I could think of a way to prevent them from punishing
> researchers who publish negative results by not funding them any more,
> but the only way I can see is for the government to tax these
> companies and fund the research directly.  That doesn't really fit
> the rubric of "access to knowledge".
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