Jamie Love fights to save people's lives from pharmaceutical patents.

Medicine is one of the areas where patents do a special kind of harm, but we would be better off eliminating patents entirely.

I am disappointed that the first article uses the term "protection" to describe what patents do, because that is spin in favor of the patentholders. Using that term gives them an endorsement that they will use when lobbying for more strict patent laws. Please join me in refusing ever to use that term in regard to patents.

The term "intellectual property rights" is worse than spin: it spreads confusion. Patents and copyrights are totally different in practice. If you lump them together, you will misunderstand what they do.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.