Per chi non lo sapesse:
la sentenza madey-duke impedi' a Duke University di usare tecnologie
brevettate ad uso didattico e sperimentale (precedentemente considerati
fair use) in quanto anche la didattica e' "business activity" per la duke
university.
Chi non vuole parlare di privatizzazione dell'universita' non parli
nemmeno di proprieta' intellettuale, come direbbe horkheimer.
a
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Ernesto Burgio wrote:
Scientists may not have paid sufficient attention to the privatization
of common knowledge because, in the past, they felt that research
activities did not require approval from patent holders. The 2002 Madey
v. Duke decision put an end to such protection (Madey v. Duke
University, 307 F. 3d 1351, 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2002)). Scientists can be
influential by helping policy-makers understand that open access to
basic laws of nature, products of nature, and mathematical formulae is
necessary for scientists to explore and innovate. The U.S. Supreme Court
has recognized that fact, but, increasingly, the USPTO in granting such
patents and the Federal Circuit in upholding them seem to have forgotten
it.
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