df512619_Entrepreneurship__0
[1] Create economic incentives for creators and innovators by establishing property rights, while also maintaining broad access to ideas and expressions of ideas as public goods [2] Overly restrictive intellectual property rules and enforcement may prevent the diffusion of innovative ideas to those who might apply them to the problems of society; lack of sufficient support for intellectual property rights may cause innovators to turn away from investing in creating innovations that could have broad applicability to social problems and have other forms of utility. [3] Civil action can be taken against pirates, and lawyers can seek to encourage the government to take criminal action, assuming the relevant statutes are in place. On the other side, lawyers can join with activists seeking broader access to intellectual property. This might include for example clarifying the status of open source software, as well as making available mechanisms for individuals to increase the availability of their intellectual property, along the lines of Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org). In the case of AIDS drugs, activists have pushed governments to invoke clauses in WTO agreements that allow for emergency compulsory licensing of drug patents. [0] 
Intellectual Property
Entrepreneurship
0