Direi che ci siamo. Un po´ come quando scrivi una pubblicazione e controlli nature tutte le mattine: prima o poi qualcun´altro lo pubblica. E´divertente :-) Peró fa´molto piacere ed e´solo la riconferma che la comunitá scientifica e´un terreno piú che fertile per queste iniziative ora.
Un saluto dal mar baltico (kiel), Francesco Scrive mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ! > Creative Commons ponders share options > PAULA GOULD > > Alternative > licensing scheme for scientists set to launch. > > [LONDON] A > not-for-profit organization is preparing to launch a form of science > licensing that it says will give researchers more flexibility when they > publish and share data. > The project, called Science Commons, has grown out of the Creative > Commons movement, a scheme devised by Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law > School, California, to promote the online publishing of audio, visual > and textual materials with "some rights reserved". > Science Commons aims to provide a form of legal protection that > could serve as an alternative to both copyright and patents. If > successful, the system should allow the creators of a pesticide, for > example, to restrict its free use to the developing world through one > simple licence, rather than a web of international patents. Most would > declare this a worthy goal, but sceptics say it will be a hard slog for > Science Commons, as those involved have little experience of patent law. > Creative Commons licences are free to use and > legally binding. To date > they have garnered most support from musicians and web loggers who wish > to promote their work over the Internet, but who do not want to lose > all control over its use. The movement's activities are funded > primarily by three US-based private foundations, and are run from > premises at Stanford Law School. > Since its inception, the movement's founders have wanted to expand > into the world of science. Additional funding to do so has now been > obtained from an unnamed source. John Wilbanks, a fellow at the World > Wide Web Consortium, an organization that aims to promote the > development of the web, has been appointed director of Science Commons. > He plans to consult with scientists, companies and funding agencies to > work out a mechanism by which the commons will work. "We are not coming > in with a pre-written agenda. We only want to solve areas of legal > friction that the scientific community tells us are a problem," > Wilbanks says. > The "some rights reserved" philosophy has already made inroads into > the world of science. A Creative Commons licence covers the content of > the Public Library of Science publications PLoS Biology and PLoS > Medicine. > And the Biological Innovation for Open Science (BIOS) initiative, run > by Richard Jefferson, aims to make methods and techniques developed by > scientists freely available, in return for the results gained through > such techniques also being freely released (see Nature 431, 494; 2004). > Science > Commons says it hopes to cover all this ground. > Wilbanks is in discussions with BIOS to explore possible link-ups. > But Jefferson is sceptical of the impact that Science Commons will have > outside the publishing arena. "The world of patents and science has > almost nothing to do with the world of copyright. The economics, the > culture and the pragmatics have almost no parallels," he says. > Science Commons will initially focus on biomedical sciences when it > launches in January 2005. But Wilbanks would ultimately like to see the > concept used in a wide range of scientific fields, including > astrophysics and high-energy physics, where large amounts of data are > collected. "The goal is to be an international Science Commons, not a > US-centric life-sciences commons," he says. > http://creativecommons.org/projects/science/proposal > > > > -- www.e-laser.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
