The [Communist Party of India (Marxist)] sets out the alternative path for the country in its Lok Sabha [lower house of the Parliament of India] Elections 2009 Manifesto. On the Science and Technology it has put forth the following points:
... Promoting free software and other such new technologies, which are free from monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; “knowledge commons” should be promoted across disciplines, like biotechnology and drug discovery.
Dinesh Abrol, in his article published in People's Democracy Vol. XXXIII No. 4 (February 01, 2009), suggested the following safeguards to the Indian Parliament:
Institutionalization of the practice of open source culture of knowledge protection and utilization in medical and agricultural research.
Prohibition of exclusive licensing and insisting of the use & practice of non-exclusive licensing/licenses offered by Creative Commons to ensure the protection of public interest in publicly funded research. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 3/18/2009 05:10:00 PM.
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.
