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Stonetools you've taken the UN statement way out of context ..... it refers to the attribution of and acknowledgement of ownership of material.
Removing an author's details, or denying their existence, is not an issue under contention in this thread.
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Actually it refers to intellectual property rights in general, as a plain sense reading of the provision indicates. A simple Google search shows how its has been interpreted. One example:
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Intellectual property rights are recognized as human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and in other international and regional human rights treaties and instruments. However, the relationship between intellectual property systems and human rights is complex and calls for a full understanding of the nature and purposes of the intellectual property system.
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AS for the anti-Americanism, you should understand that anti piracy campaigns are under way in Sweden, France, Belgium, Italy, New Zealand, the UK and elsewhere. The US government is, if anything, late to the party.