lofi-rev's Journal: IP Rights of AK-47's Under Attack?

The New York Times reports that Russians are claiming the US is violating their intellectual property rights by distributing illegal clones of the famed AK-47 assault rifle.

Once licensed to 18 countries for manufacture, only the plant in Izhevsk, Russia claims the right to sell the rifles now. The US is favoring the AK-47's because "the automatic Kalashnikov is inexpensive and requires less training to master than modern American rifles."

Eric Schwartz, a vice president of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, said "I'm not a big fan of guns, but that said, if the creators of this intellectual property have rights to enforce, I really do hope they can get them enforced in every country." Makes you wonder what the enforcement will look like...