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It is stated in the passage that the issue of intellectual property rights ----.
It is not just the rights to solid, visible property that need
to be protected; ownership of invisible property such as
ideas and artistic creations also require protection. An
inventor has little incentive to innovate if he knows that
his invention will be seized from him – depriving him of
any reward for his work – as soon as it is finished. So,
for an economy to function properly, governments have
to ensure they have a stable system of patents and
other intellectual property rights. Copyright, for example,
protects writers, for a set period of time, against
plagiarism. Intellectual property rights have come under
great scrutiny in recent years thanks to the rise of
emerging economies such as China and India. In such
countries, regulations and laws on intellectual property
and common standards have proven hard to uphold. As
a result, companies have been able to produce, for
example, cheap and unlicensed versions of drugs based
on the research and development of Western
pharmacological companies. Although consumers
initially welcomed such projects, there have
subsequently been several scares over whether goods
produced in these countries can be trusted. For
instance, some counterfeit drugs produced in China
have turned out to have no effect, or even to be harmful.
Hence, there must be strict regulations regarding both
the use and selling of these drugs