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Who Steals the Gene from Off the Common

My new Financial Times column on the creation of a science commons is now up.  For the ungated version, read on… › Continue reading

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Science Commons, Uncategorized, patents, science No Comments

What Intellectual Property Law Should Learn from Software

A new article of mine just came out in the Communications of the ACM.  An alert reader notified me that the article is behind a paywall — not available to those without subscriptions.  Luckily, Communications is a fine humane publication and agreed to let me keep copyright in the article.  Here it is..  My thanks to the editors of Communications and particularly to Moshe Vardi › Continue reading

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 free software, patents, science, software 3 Comments

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  • Who Steals the Gene from Off the Common

    My new Financial Times column on the creation of a science commons is now up.  For the ungated version, read on…

  • What if the Web Really Worked For Science?

    Here is the video of my speech in Vienna at the IRF symposium.  The title was What If the Web Really Worked for Science? Reimagining Data Policy and Intellectual Property.

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