Pirates on the High Seas

The United States and Global Intellectual Property Rights

Bénédicte Callan

Council on Foreign Relations

1998

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Acknowledgements

This paper was inspired by the presentations and discussions of the Council on Foreign Relations study group American IPR Policy after the TRIPs Agreement: The Current and Future Agenda. I am greatly indebted to its members for many of the insights and ideas presented here, and to Ellen Frost, the chairwoman of the study group, for her ability to keep discussion crisp and pertinent. The study group taught me much about intellectual property rights and American trade policy, but while our discussions provided fodder for thought, the ideas presented here are not the product of a consensus reached by study group participants and should not be attributed to anyone other than me.

Albert Fishlow has been utterly invaluable for his thoughtful comments on multiple drafts of this paper. Ann Markusen, Gregory Noble, and Miles Kahler helped identify key problems and issues. The sharp editing of Dooley Adcroft and Sean Costigan’s tireless revisions have tightened the writing. My thanks also go to the Council’s excellent library staff—Leigh Gusts, Connie Stagnaro, and Marcia Sprules in particular—who gathered invaluable information for me on this topic. Finally, I thank Peter Fitzpatrick for his help in organizing the study group, and Harpreet Mann and Nomi Colton–Max for their enthusiastic research assistance.