On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Donat Agosti wrote:
> 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
For at least 92% of this science, no further "protection" is
necessary -- if only we would stop fussing about IPR and
focus instead on providing OA: by self-archiving at least 92%
of our articles -- *now* (without even waiting for our employers
and funders to mandate it)!
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Stevan Harnad
P.S. Even for those who are Creative Commons (CC) License advocates first,
and OA advocates only second, your own objectives -- eminently worthwhile
and highly desirable and beneficial as they are -- would be far better
served if you advised those whose first concern is OA for the 2.5
million annual articles in the world's 24,000 peer-reviewed journals
to self-archive their own articles now. The very best way to prepare
the road for CC in this special domain (refereed journal articles) is
to first attain 100% OA. It will all be downhill for CC from there. But
not from here -- and especially if premature (and unnecessary) calls
for CC (in this special domain, unlike music, software, film and trade
publication) help to delay attaining immediate 100% OA!
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Received on Sun Nov 07 2004 - 15:27:16 GMT