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Author dun_deagh Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikipedia Scotland Jane Lambert Shortly before the Scottish independence referendum, I wrote What would an independent Scottish government do about Intellectual Property? on 10 Sept 2014 and More on Scotland and Intellectual Property on 13 Sept 2014. As Scotland approaches elections in which the question of secession from the United Kingdom will again be an issue, it is now appropriate to reconsider what should be the intellectual property policy of a separate Scotland. In 2014 the section on intellectual property in the Scottish government's white paper Scotland's Future consisting of 4 short paragraphs of which only the first was of any relevance. I was not particularly impressed with it and I said so at the time. Having said that, credit should be given to the Scottish government for at least publishing a white paper on independence because there was nothing like that on the ...