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Host Brian Wesolowski sits down with author and professor Shobita Parthasarathy about intellectual property. She breaks down how different approaches to patents in the United States and Europe can lead to very different policy outcomes, especially around controversial issues such as patenting life forms.\n\nThen Brian brings in a crowd \u2013 Daniel O'Maley of the Center for International Media Assistance, as well as Corinne Cath, Mehwish Ansari, & Niels ten Oever of Article 19\xa0\u2013 to chat about why global media development professionals should be engaging in the many internet governance bodies. Think about it \u2013 if you care about a vibrant media sector in developing nations, don't you want to make sure you have a voice in how the the internet functions?\n\nShobita's book, "Patent Politics:" http://bit.ly/cdtshpp\nMore on Shobita: http://bit.ly/shobitaumich\nCIMA + Article 19 report: http://bit.ly/2nPLC0X\n\nMore info on our host, Brian: bit.ly/cdtbrian\n\nAttribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.