If a country is to be treated as a sovereign, however, then its laws are
its laws regardless of their source. The international law under which
these nations live gives them some opportunities to escape the burden
-of intellectual property law.<footnote>
-<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
-<para>
+of intellectual property law.<footnote><para>
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See Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: Who
Owns the Knowledge Economy? (New York: The New Press, 2003), 10–13,
holder's permission. Developing nations may be able to use this to
gain the benefits of foreign patents at lower prices. This is a
promising strategy for developing nations within the TRIPS framework.
+<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote> In my view, more developing nations should take
advantage of that opportunity, but when they don't, then their laws
should be respected. And under the laws of these nations, this piracy
<indexterm><primary>Braithwaite, John</primary></indexterm>
<para>
As Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite relate, this is precisely the
-choice we are now making about intellectual property.<footnote>
-<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
-<para>
+choice we are now making about intellectual property.<footnote><para>
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See Drahos with Braithwaite, Information Feudalism, 210–20.
+<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
We will have an information society. That much is certain. Our only
choice now is whether that information society will be free or