Many of you may already know about this, but today's Financial Times
has the following story: Call to restrict 'stifling' patents
(http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3e3b14aa-3c1e-11da-94fb-00000e2511c8.html)
"An international group of academics, scientists and artists has
called for strict limits on patents and copyrights, concerned that
the spread of intellectual property protection is suppressing
knowledge and stifling creativity.
A charter on intellectual property (IP), developed by the Royal
Society of Arts in London, calls for an automatic presumption against
creating new protection or extending existing rules.
It also argues that patents and copyrights should not be allowed to
apply to computer code, business processes, scientific theories or
abstract data.
Today's intellectual property regime was "radically out of line with
modern technological, economic and social trends", said the charter."
The story refers to the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and
Intellectual Property released yesterday in London - available at
http://www.ipcharter.org. In addition to folks from the UK, the
group includes some familiar names (some of whom are probably on this
email list): James Boyle, Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig and Jamie Love.
Good job!
Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D.
Athena Alliance
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