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Big pharma often gets a rather rough ride here on Techdirt, what with its attempts to stop governments granting licenses for life-saving...

One of the things that disappoints me is the lack of understanding of what's at stake with open source among some of the other open comm...

I write a lot about licensing here. Indeed, licensing arguably lies at the heart of free software. But there's another important way o...

Here's a nice meditation from Science Commons' John Wilbanks on openness, access and innovation, which includes the following thou...

An eloquent statement by John Wilbanks about the commons, sharing and solving complex problems: One of the reasons I believe so deeply in t...

Something calling itself a “ Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data ” sounds about as exciting as a list of ingredients for paint. But ...