Consumers’ Rights Still Not On Equal Footing With Copyright Owners’, Study Finds; Intellectual Property Watch, 5/3/11

Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch; Consumers’ Rights Still Not On Equal Footing With Copyright Owners’, Study Finds:

"The best-rated countries are Moldova, the United States, India, Lebanon and New Zealand, while the worst-rated countries are Thailand, Chile, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Belarus.

The watchlist aims to “provide a snapshot of how a number of the world’s major IP regimes support, or fail to support, consumers’ access to educational, cultural and scientific knowledge,” but also to advertise good practices and encourage countries to review their IP laws to serve the public interest."