[sc-discuss] GPL - like licence to hinder patents based on derivates of free knowledge?

Amit Parashar amit.parashar at acm.org
Thu Sep 14 17:09:58 EDT 2006


Hi Peter,

I was under the impression that the science commons really dealt with  
copyright related issues rather than patents.  If you are interested  
in open access patent licenses that deal with the concept of  
"copyleft", then BiOS (Biological Open Source) might be interesting  
to you.  You can read more about it at: http://www.bios.net/daisy/ 
bios/BiOS_licenses.html

BiOS deals specifically with patents, rather than Copyright issues.   
I think CC for Science (Science Commons) deals specifically with  
copyrightable material, specifically, journal articles etc, and also  
what has been described as 'thinly' copyrightable material, ie  
material that has a modicum of creativity in the selection and  
arrangement of facts and also material that subsists copyright on the  
basis of labour undertaken or expense incurred in the compilation of  
facts.  At least that is my area of interest, specifically geographic  
data.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Amit



On 14/09/2006, at 8:48 PM, Papa Schlumpf wrote:

> Is sciencecommons developing a licence which forces everyone  
> developing
> derivative work based on free knowledge to also publish their research
> results under the same conditions similar to the GPL or CC sharealike
> licences? This would effectively hinder the possibility to get a  
> patent
> granted for any product based on such derivative work, say for  
> example a
> pharmacon.
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