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Article: TRADE: WILL TRIPS BENEFIT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 26, 1995
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Rose Umoren
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-26-1995
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (IPS) -- Even before rules governing
international trade in creative products take effect in the
industrialized North, the United States is pushing developing
countries to implement them.
Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) regulations
are part of the Uruguay Round of a world trade agreement signed in
Morocco last year and should take effect in developed countries in
two months. They mandate all countries to protect such intellectual
property as films, software, books, and video games against illegal
copying and selling within and across borders.
But though most developing countries have until the ...