Pope on IP: Repent! Repent!!!

Patently O reports that the Vatican is coming out against monopoly rights over intellectual endeavour.  Quoting from an encyclical:

“On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property, especially in the field of health care.”

Honest Pharma – Not!

Michael Geist reports that a pharmaceutical company paid a publisher to print marketing material as a peer reviewed journal. If true, all I’d say is that I’d expect nothing more of this industry.