This Guardian article by Victor Keegan includes:
China protests loudly, and rightly so, when minor textile products are excluded from entry into the US. Yet when the fastest growing product of all - information - is excluded from China by its government there is hardly a squeak from the White House.
When will we be able to argue that the protection of specific legacy business models through treaties (such as the 1996 WIPO treaties) is also rightfully recognized as a non-tarrif barrier to trade? Supporters of Free Trade policy should support a full spectrum of methods of production, distribution and funding , provide no subsidies or non-subsidy promotion of any single model. Legislation should fully support peer production, peer distribution, and royalty-free models that set the marginal price = marginal cost of zero.
