The dramatic performance staged by both sides clearly reveals the presence of significant problem in connection with free trade talks, as the nation’s public policy such as national healthcare system becomes a political pawn subject to trade negotiation. This will happen regularly when the proposed KORUS FTA is signed. Free trade agreement, in particular the KORUS FTA, would allow every public policy to be controlled by business interests. The shows played by both governments should be stopped. The business interests cannot take precedence over public interests.
세계인권선언 제27조 및 경제적·사회적·문화적 권리에 관한 국제규약 제15조에서도 창작자, 발명가의 권리뿐만 아니라 누구나 문화, 과학적 지식을 향유할 권리를 규정하고 있다. 지적재산권 체제에 대한 비판 운동으로부터 시작된 정보문화향유권은 적극적인 ‘정보공유’ 운동으로 발전하였다. 더 보기