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24 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. [i] (2004)

handle is hein.journals/laent24 and id is 1 raw text is: LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES ENTERTAINMENT LAW REVIEW VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR 2004 NUMBER 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SYMPOSIA 2003 Stanford Law & Technology Association Conference: Ideas Without Boundaries: Creating and Protecting Intellectual Property in the International Arena INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES FOR THE PHARMACEUTICALIBIOTECH INDUSTRIES IN THE 21ST C ENTURY ................................................................................ .. .........1 The pharmaceutical and biotech industries are becoming increasingly reliant on each other. Drug companies are using the research tools and products developed by biotech companies to develop the new blockbuster drugs of tomorrow. Biotech, in turn, is becoming dependent on financing from the pharmaceutical industry to support its costly research and development programs. Today, globalization poses new legal, economic, social and political challenges for these interlinked industries, including how to balance global intellectual property protection with the need to bring essential drugs to impoverished nations at a reasonable cost and the international debate over what biotechnology innovations should be patentable. KEYNOTE: THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SOCIETY by Law rence Lessig ....................................................................................... 33 For the first hundred years in the United States' history, we protected no foreign copyrights at all. We were, in the modem parlance, born a pirate nation. In the context of patents, we have always had a tradition that respects the local reach of patent protection. But at this moment we are in a process of reforming that tradition. This tradition that has taught us the importance of a balanced system of protection, especially in the context of things like drug patents, has