RE: More on Covid,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,17 Jun 2022 18:55
Moonparty.
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
I must say I'm sceptical of the reasoning behind the "sharing/relaxing" of protection of IP to increase the distribution of Vaccines. Maybe a better course would be for the industry (perhaps in concert with Governments) to provide funding for the manufacture and distribution of vaccines to allow the rapid immunisation of populations globally. When we see the glut (in doses) of Covid vaccines seemingly available in the World today it makes me wonder whether the easing of IP protection is actually necessary - hence my point, "I think that the IP "sharing" potential is best ignored until it happens" as I'm not sure it will ever happen.
As to my point on altruism the first line of your 15.08 makes my point for me, in that anyone on a BB dedicated to share Investment is highly unlikely to be motivated purely altruistically (particularly as a direct donation directly would be clean of all associated costs to the recipient Company). So in my view it would be difficult for a shareholder to be able to claim to be purely altruistic, even though I think some have over the years tried to claim that high moral ground. I apologise unreservedly if that is not the case.
So overall you'll see that I believe there are more practical alternatives for the widespread distribution of vaccines (at least in a pandemic situation) rather than simply easing protection for IP and Patents.
Hope that explains (very basically) my personal views on this.
AIMO