Ignoring the title of this article, there are some serious insights here on Brazil's stance on IP laws - what they are, how they came to be, and how this is a model the world will almost certainly be following eventually.
Covering not just IP with regards to software but music, literature, and (most importantly, in the case of an AIDS-ridden poverty-stricken third world country) on drugs/medicine, the article shows that there is space for nations outside the 'Western World' to show us the way forward with modern, insightful and revolutionary thinking.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html
I must say, I'm impressed!