Multinationals from US, Europe, and Japan collaborated to link intellectual property rights to trade culminating in the creation of the World Trade Organization with its Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights/ TRIPS hence a global platform imposing binding rules for legal protection of transnational corporate rights to privatize life & knowledge explains … Continue reading How Enforcement of Legally Binding Intellectual Property Rights Got Linked to Trade: A 7 Part Explainer with Peter Drahos