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.[...] continua qui http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/2013715133717569407.html qgl