#1816 IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon

Air Date: 8/19/2026

Today we trace the corporate capture of ideas themselves. What began as a brief legal incentive granting fourteen years of exclusive rights to a creation has become a system that kept a pandemic vaccine from reaching poorer countries and where entertainment conglomerates and technology giants fence off and sell our own culture back to us.

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