Showing posts with label intellectual commons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intellectual commons. Show all posts
01 May 2009

Why Pig Flu is Better than Bird Flu: Open Data

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As I wrote two years ago, one of the most worrying aspects of bird flu (remember that?) was that virus sequences were not being shared well...
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01 December 2008

Saving the Intellectual Commons with Open Source

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Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not a fan of the term “intellectual property”, and that I prefer the more technically corre...
12 July 2007

A Theory of Optimal Copyright

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There have been plenty of arguments over copyright and what an appropriate term for it should be, but, to my knowledge, precious few mathema...
18 June 2007

Wiping the WIPO Slate Clean

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As I've noted before, if WIPO is to avoiding turning into a huge ball on chain on the international community, it needs to change; speci...
25 March 2007

India's Intellectual Commons

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Here's an interesting perspective from India on intellectual monopolies: The term "intellectual property" reduces knowledge i...
09 July 2006

A Defence of the Intellectual Commons

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Use rights over cultural and scientific information are of fundamental political importance to citizens everywhere. These rights will be dee...
21 December 2005

The IP Penny Begins to Drop

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The news that 12 US universities have adopted a series of guiding principles to facilitate collaborative research on open source software r...