John Wilbanks and Brian Fitzgerald have posted the slides and podcast of their lecture on Copyright and Innovation at the Australian Science Show.
Also see the Science Commons blog post on the lecture. Excerpt:
Could the key to feeding the world be locked up in a company fridge somewhere?
That’s the question Australia’s Science Show asks to introduce a newly available podcast discussion featuring Science Commons’ own John Wilbanks and Brian Fitzgerald, who heads up Creative Commons Australia. The question isn’t nearly as tongue-in-cheek as it sounds; the discussion is about how to unlock the value of scientific research when so much of it is routinely balkanized — hidden away behind walls of secrecy, cost and technical obscurity.
At Science Commons, we work to make scientific research easier to find, share and use. This includes providing tools to “mark” research with usage rights, so scientists can work and collaborate within zones of legal certainty. But as Wilbanks explains in the lecture, “we need freedom to innovate, not simply freedom to operate” — something that requires more than developing licenses and contracts:
I think it’s clear that we face an exponential set of problems but we don’t have an exponential innovation capacity…we need to think about what we can do to enable that innovation to emerge....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/11/2008 11:42:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
