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determining patentable subject matter under the American Patent Act, is used as a starting point for a brief review of historical …, philosophical, and cultural influences on subject matter questions in both patent and copyright law. The article suggests that … patent and copyright law jurisprudence was constructed initially by the Court with explicit attention to the relationship …
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This Article addresses conservation, preservation, and stewardship of knowledge, and laws and institutions in the cultural environment that support those things. Legal and policy questions concerning creativity and innovation usually focus on producing new knowledge and offering access to it....
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Open Science is an umbrella term that encompasses a multitude of assumptions about the future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this paper aims at structuring the overall discourse by proposing five Open Science schools of thought: the infrastructure school...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the contribution of formal law to Open Access (OA). The main thesis is that formal law may be considered as an outstanding instrument to affirm the OA principle. However, the ultimate success of OA depends on a radical change of the informal rules that apply...
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Standard accounts of IP law describe systems of legal exclusion intended to prompt the production and distribution of intellectual resources, or information and knowledge, by making those things artificially scarce. The argument presented here frames IP law instead as one of several possible...
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This chapter describes methods for systematically studying knowledge commons as an institutional mode of governance of knowledge and information resources, including references to adjacent but distinct approaches to research that looks primarily to the role(s) of intellectual property systems in...
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This chapter explores the related ideas of access to knowledge resources and shared governance of those resources, often known as commons. Knowledge resources consist of many types and forms. Some are tangible, and some are intangible. Some are singular; some are reproduced in copies. Some are...
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This chapter describes biobanks as institutions for collection, preservation, curation, and production of knowledge and information, in both material and immaterial forms. That characterization calls for research and comparative analysis of the broad diversity of specific biobanks, using a...
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This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the knowledge commons research framework. Knowledge commons refers to an institutional approach (commons) to governing the production, use, management, and/or preservation of a particular type of resource (knowledge). The research...
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In this paper I look at the global question of the appropriation of indigenous ecological knowledge. First I will attempt to define some of the terms in this field of debate, and explain some of the basic issues, with a brief look at the role of intellectual property laws. Following this I will...
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