This by Susan Sell on TRIPS is great:

"The private sector activists displayed impressive framing skills in presenting their case to the government and their foreign counterparts not merely by making the link between intellectual property and trade,...
"but by the very terms they used to describe their position. Historically, patent rights were considered to be "grants of privilege." Over time this on has given way to the notion of "property rights" in intellectual goods...
"The language of rights weighs in favor of the person claiming the right. The language of privilege weighs in favor of the person granting privilege...
"By wrapping themselves in the mantle of "property rights” the private sector activists suggested that the rights they were claiming were somehow natural, unassailable, and automatically deserved...
"They were able to deploy "rights talk" (Weissman, 1996: 1087) effectively in part because they were operating in a context in which property rights were revered; "rights talk" resonated with broader American culture."
Also, just discovered that Google can convert a photo of book text to digital form in one step. It was nearly perfect.
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