This seems to be an article of interest to the open access debate?
Paul A. David (2004) "Can 'open science' be protected from the
evolving regime of IPR protections?" Journal of Institutional
and Theoretical Economics 160 (1, 2004): 9-34
http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/02-42.pdf
ABSTRACT: Increasing access charges and transactions costs arising
from monopoly rights in data and information adversely affect the
conduct of science, especially exploratory research programs. The
latter are critical for the sustained growth of knowledge-driven
economies, and are most efficiently pursued in the "open science"
mode. In some fields, informal cooperative norms for timely sharing of
access to raw data-steams and documented database resources are being
undermined by legal institutional innovations that accommodate the
further privatizing of the public domain in information. A variety
of corrective measures are needed to restore proper balance to the
IPR regime.
Dr. Donat Agosti
Research Associate,
American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Institution
Email: agosti_at_amnh.org
Web:
http://antbase.org
CV:
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/agosticv_2003.html
Dalmaziquai 45
3005 Bern
Switzerland
+41-31-351 7152
Received on Sun Nov 07 2004 - 14:53:47 GMT