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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Remember how the GE Free movement said that GM was mainly about expanding the power of "IP" laws to living things, including food crops? Remember we said this would concentrate power over food production, adding a new way for corporations to extract profit from other people's work?

Seems we were bang on about the agenda. But they've found a simpler way to do it, a monopoly over crop varieties called Plant Variety Rights;

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/zespri-wins-128m-court-case-protecting-gold3-kiwifruit-rights-in-china/WFJ5BIHRNFEZLNGKZ3OSMXBNR4/

#IP #PVR

NZ Herald

Gold3 kiwifruit: Zespri wins $1.28m court case in China

The case centred on unauthorised Gold3 kiwifruit grown in Hubei Province.
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