I thought the following talk given in Melbourne Australia a week or so ago would be of interest. If you click on the link at the end of the message, you can actually listen to the lecture, or read the transcript.
It is relevant to various discussions here recently. It is said that the only constant thing in the universe is change. Change must occur in these areas if society is to evolve (or even survive). See my article on Money Doesn't Work Anymore, too at my website. Clement Clarke ,-._|\ Clement V. Clarke - Author Jol, EASYJCL, EASYPANEL, 370TO486 / Oz \ Web: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd \_,--.x/ 38 Kings Park Road, West Perth, AUSTRALIA, 6005. v Tel (61)-8-9324-1119, Mob 0401-054-155. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________ Are we missing out on the full benefits of science and technology because of outdated ideas about copyright and patenting? Could the key to feeding the world be locked up in a company fridge somewhere? Open-source software has transformed the internet, underpinning the phenomenal growth of Google, Ebay and YouTube. What can science learn from this revolution? In our rush to protect intellectual property, have we damaged our capacity to deliver solutions for the critical issues of the 21st century? In this lecture, John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons at Harvard Law School, will describe how existing social and legal infrastructures are choking science, and how we can create new ways to share research. Brian Fitzgerald, Head of the Law School at Queensland University of Technology, will discuss the success of open source in the information technology world, and the lessons for other fields of science. *Robyn Williams: *The program today comes from Melbourne and one of the Deakin Lectures held during 2007. It's about intellectual property rights, computers and the future, or to put it another way, how can innovators at last be allowed to get on with it and how can we, the public, make the most of useful knowledge, without being stung yet again for a dollar. More here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/2122486.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
