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No one can deny authors, inventors and legitimate users of trade names the right to reap just reward from their works and activities and to receive legal protection against those who deprive them of their rights. In developed countries this pro- tection does not give rise to any moral issues. This is not the case in developing countries. When a book is reproduced or translated without the publisher's permission and without royalties being paid to the author there are few individuals who will be making an illicit profit and depriving a few others of legitimate revenue. On the other hand, the book which is pirated, could be sold at an affordable price to a great number of readers. Let us imagine for a moment that the book is a scientific or medical treatise which is sold in its country of origin at a price which could average the per capita income in developing countries. Should we condone its pirating to make it affordable to students of those countries? What about drugs which treat Aids or cancer? Should poor countries do without them because of their prohibitive costs, or produce them illegally? Today, many developing countries face these dilemmas
Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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