Excerpt: "Much of the current debate over the public domain reduces the analysis to slogans like 'no one should own the human genome' or 'academic scientists should work with, but not for, companies.' This Paper takes a more systematic approach. It starts from the proposition that contracts should be designed to (a) promote the discovery of new facts, and (b) encourage people to use existing research results. It then asks when academic/industry transactions that restrict the 'public domain' are likely to compromise those goals."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/27/2002 10:19:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
