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Ho ricevuto oggi una copia del giornale trimestrale di Action Aid (www.actionaid.org) nel quale ho letto che anche il cibo è soggetto a copyright...
Qaule cibo? Fagioli, broccoli, riso, cactus, aloe vera, pepe ed anche gli alberi...
insomma non si può importare esportare e talvolta produrre senza pagare delle royalties ai grandi nomi dietro queste copyright.
Riporto qui sotto un articolo sui fagili gialli messicani...
Ma i casi sono veramente tanti.
In breve:
Proctor was granted US patent 5,894,079 on the seeds in 1999, and called them Enola - his wife's middle name.
The patent provided protection for any yellow dried beans and makes it unlawful for them to be grown in the US or imported without royalty payments to the patent holder.
When they received the patent, Pod-Ners wrote to all importers of Mexican beans in the US, warning that this bean was their property, and that if they planned to sell it they would have to pay royalties to Pod-Ners
La storia:
When American businessman Larry Proctor, the president of a Colorado-based seed company, Pod-Ners, brought some yellow bean seeds home with him at the end of a holiday in Mexico, he had more than a souvenir in mind. He planted them in his greenhouse, feeling that US consumers might appreciate their different colour.
Yellow beans, known locally as Mayocaba beans, have been grown and eaten in Mexico for generations. In the mid-1990s, Mexican farmers began stepping up their exports to the US.
To their dismay they learned of the patent and heard that no yellow beans could be exported into the US without payment of 15 cents a kilo in royalties to Pod-Ners. For Mexican farmers, such a fee made exporting the beans uneconomic.
Proctor is suing two US seed importers who tried to do business with Mexican farmers. But the Colombian-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - a research centre and holder of 27,000 samples of dry bean seeds - is legally challenging the Enola patent.
"The patent business is a fraud," says Rodolpho Soto, a Mayocaba bean farmer from Sinoloa, Mexico. "It shouldn't be like that. It's a kind of biopiracy."
Questa è un'iniziativa di ActionAid: richiedere i diritti sulle "chips" Patatine fritte inglese...
http://www.actionaid.org/newsandmedia/chip.shtml
Ciao a tutti!
Azz quanto interesse ha suscitato questo soggetto...
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Qaule cibo? Fagioli, broccoli, riso, cactus, aloe vera, pepe ed anche gli alberi...
insomma non si può importare esportare e talvolta produrre senza pagare delle royalties ai grandi nomi dietro queste copyright.
Riporto qui sotto un articolo sui fagili gialli messicani...
Ma i casi sono veramente tanti.
In breve:
Proctor was granted US patent 5,894,079 on the seeds in 1999, and called them Enola - his wife's middle name.
The patent provided protection for any yellow dried beans and makes it unlawful for them to be grown in the US or imported without royalty payments to the patent holder.
When they received the patent, Pod-Ners wrote to all importers of Mexican beans in the US, warning that this bean was their property, and that if they planned to sell it they would have to pay royalties to Pod-Ners
La storia:
When American businessman Larry Proctor, the president of a Colorado-based seed company, Pod-Ners, brought some yellow bean seeds home with him at the end of a holiday in Mexico, he had more than a souvenir in mind. He planted them in his greenhouse, feeling that US consumers might appreciate their different colour.
Yellow beans, known locally as Mayocaba beans, have been grown and eaten in Mexico for generations. In the mid-1990s, Mexican farmers began stepping up their exports to the US.
To their dismay they learned of the patent and heard that no yellow beans could be exported into the US without payment of 15 cents a kilo in royalties to Pod-Ners. For Mexican farmers, such a fee made exporting the beans uneconomic.
Proctor is suing two US seed importers who tried to do business with Mexican farmers. But the Colombian-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - a research centre and holder of 27,000 samples of dry bean seeds - is legally challenging the Enola patent.
"The patent business is a fraud," says Rodolpho Soto, a Mayocaba bean farmer from Sinoloa, Mexico. "It shouldn't be like that. It's a kind of biopiracy."
Questa è un'iniziativa di ActionAid: richiedere i diritti sulle "chips" Patatine fritte inglese...
http://www.actionaid.org/newsandmedia/chip.shtml
Ciao a tutti!
Azz quanto interesse ha suscitato questo soggetto...
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