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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Reichman, Jerome H.; Okediji, Ruth L. |
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Conference:
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Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources: Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural, and Genetic Resources Commons, 1st Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons |
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Location:
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Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
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Conf. Date:
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September 12-14 |
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Date:
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2012 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9536
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Information & Knowledge |
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Subject(s):
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copyright
law
research
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Abstract:
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"Much scholarly attention has focused on possible impediments to both science and innovation arising from extensions of patent protection to research tools and to other upstream knowledge assets in ways that threaten to undermine the cooperative norms of basic scientific research. Until recently, however, far less attention has been paid to the growing capacity of global copyright law and related rights to impede access to, and use of, the cumulative scientific literature and data that digitally integrated scientific research methods massively ingest. In this Article, we contend that this latter phenomenon poses a more immediate and pervasive threat to basic scientific research methods today than the still controversial claims about thickets of rights and anticommons effects attributed to excesses of the patent system in recent years."
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