[p2p-research] open patents

Sun Jan 10 08:11:28 CET 2010

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From: Fouad Bajwa [mailto:fouadbajwa at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:16 AM
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Subject: [governance] cmost in the form of patents

Hi Everyone,

This is cRead
on below:

Source: Global Innovation Commons http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/

What would happen if you were given over $2 trillion? That's right, if
someone walked up to you and gave you $2 trillion. That could never happen,
right?

In fact, that is exactly what has just happened.

While the patent system has been around since the 17th century when it was
developed by nobles in Italy and England, it may surprise you that the
system was designed to benefit you. Patents were supposed to be a public
disclosure to advance science and useful knowledge. If someone shared
sufficient information to teach the public about a novel development or
useful technology, they would have a limited time (about 20 years) to decide
who could use that idea.

There's some bad news and some good news. First, the bad news: For the past
30 years, patents have been abused. Rather than serving the public's
expansion of knowledge, they've been used as business and legal weapons.
Over 50,000,000 patents covering everything you do have served to keep you
from benefiting in many aspects of your life. Many life-saving treatments
have been kept from the market because they threaten established business
interests. The world's ecosystem has been severely damaged because
efficiencies have been kept from entereing the market.

In the face of all this, however, there is the good news: The thirty year
"cold war" of innovation is over. Today, you now have access to it all. In
the Global Innovation Commons, we have assembled hundreds of thousands of
innovations - most in the form of patents - which are either expired,
no-longer maintained (meaning that the fees to keep the patents in force
have lapsed), disallowed, or unprotected in most, if not all, relevant
markets. This means that, as of right now, you can take a step into a world
full of possibilities, not roadblocks. You want clean water for China or
Sudan - it's in here. You want carbon-free energy - it's in here. You want
food production for Asia or South America - it's in here.

But here's the catch. We're sharing this under a license. The license is
really simple. If you use this information, you must share what you're doing
with everyone else. If you improve upon it, you must share your improvements
with everyone else. And finally, if you use any of this information, you
must reference the "Global Innovation Commons." That's it. When you take the
next step, turn the possibilities into realities.

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Fouad Bajwa
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ICT4D & Internet Governance
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:20:20 -0800
Subject: FW: [CSL] Updating the Berkman Center's broadband study for the FCC

 *From:* Seth Young [mailto:syoung at cyber.law.harvard.edu]
*Sent:* 22 December 2009 15:43
*To:* report-release-and-press-list at eon.law.harvard.edu
*Subject:* [report-release-list] Updating the Berkman Center's broadband
study for the FCC

Good morning,

A brief note regarding the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's
independent review for the FCC, *Next Generation Connectivity: A review of
broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world:*

On October 14, the FCC posted for public comment the draft study (see
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/broadband_review_draft). Hundreds of
pages of comments were filed, and some were very helpful in identifying
useful additional analysis. In mid-January, the Berkman Center will submit
the final draft of *Next Generation Connectivity* to the FCC.

In the interim, we have made available a "Memorandum Describing Intended
Updates to the Final Report," a substantial piece of research in its own
right (congratulations and thanks are again due to everyone who helped with
this important work!). The updates described in the memo reinforce the
findings of the draft study. The updates include a literature review with an
important conclusion: The present unstated consensus in US
telecommunications policy circles that open access is a theory in disrepute
is without foundation in evidence.

For a more detailed description of the memo, and access to the full
document, please visit: *http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5843
*As always, we welcome your feedback.

Seth Young
Communications
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University
+1.617.384.9135

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From: "Michael Gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
To: <ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:02:10 -0800
Subject: Democratizing Knowledge and the future of Academic Libraries

More from the always challenging UIUC student blog!

*http://blog.lis.illinois.edu/imlscic/?tag=digital-humanities*<http://blog.lis.illinois.edu/imlscic/?tag=digital-humanities>

***Democratizing Knowledge and the future of Academic
Libraries***<http://blog.lis.illinois.edu/imlscic/?p=218>
****

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Within the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the
University of Illinois community informatics as a type of applied field has
increasingly become associated with public libraries. While I laud this
imagined integration of CI into public libraries, I am not convinced this is
enough of an integration between CI as research and CI as a practice within
professional activity.

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