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Governing in ignorance: Australian governments legislating, without understanding, intellectual property

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| Tim Wilson

Governing in ignorance: Australian governments legislating, without understanding, intellectual property

Monday, 26th of April 2010 is World Intellectual Property Day. Intellectual property is one of the most poorly understood areas of public policy, but also one of the most important to understand in a knowledge economy. Yet legislators regularly advocate for, and sometimes actually amend IP legislation without understanding the consequences to Australia's international IP obligations.

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