Opinion
Sharing science is a crime
The more one shares, the more one undermines a future patent
application and a system that encourages privatisation.
by Charles Davis
[...]"All publicly funded research should be in the public domain -
no patents, no copyrights, no restrictions on use, period," says
Eisen, the UC Berkeley biologist and co-founder of the Public
Library of Science, which supports the free distribution of
scientific work. For that to be the case, there needs to be a
serious change in the way research is funded. And the politicians
who created the current system would have to change it, which could
anger the defence contractors and patent holders who give them
money. But there are things scientists can start doing today to
begin the process of change.[...]
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