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Ideas don't belong to anyone. They exist in the commons of language that is the heritage of all.In pandemics like COVID-19 intellectual property rights mean corporations like Pfizer are profiting from the suffering caused by knowledge exclusion. TorontotheBetter calls on all local enterprises to share their urgent knowledge using licenses such as the Creative Commons and on governments to break dowm the copyright barriers that restrict access. In pandemic times death by intellectual property law is just as fatal as disease. Time to prevent it in a social economy that values human life over profit