So wait- am I reading this right? Essentially Bayer didn't sell the drug cheap enough, so the Indian Gov't gives an Indian company the 'right' to copy the drug and send Bayer checks for 6% of the proceeds?
Neither seems right to me. Maybe they aren't the same thing, but if ThePirateBay was sending the MPAA checks for 6% of what they made on the site, and saying "This should make it right, you weren't cheap enough so we distributed it ourselves" then the US would be trying to seize and detain people involved.
Hasn't India signed some intellectual property treaty with... well pretty much the rest of the world? How in the world can they do this?
And totally on the flip side- props to India for sticking it to the man. Kinda...
And on the flip side of intellectual property, the US is able to extradite a kid over piracy of TV shows? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699325)
Neither seems right to me. Maybe they aren't the same thing, but if ThePirateBay was sending the MPAA checks for 6% of what they made on the site, and saying "This should make it right, you weren't cheap enough so we distributed it ourselves" then the US would be trying to seize and detain people involved.
Hasn't India signed some intellectual property treaty with... well pretty much the rest of the world? How in the world can they do this?
And totally on the flip side- props to India for sticking it to the man. Kinda...