Impacts of Property Rights on Open Science - 1pm, Friday March 24, 2006 - MIT Stata Center, 32-155
ASW
Impacts of Property Rights on Open Science
John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons
Open to the Public
1pm, Friday March 24, 2006
MIT Stata Center, 32-155
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series
Talk Overview
This talk will lay out the basic intersections of property rights -
copyrights, patents, and contracts - with scientific research. The talk
will also examine how approaches inspired by the Free Software movement
might help create a "research commons" of freely usable tools, papers
and data. Specific case studies in biological materials transfer and
text mining of gene interaction networks will be presented for
discussion.
This seminar series is sponsored by OpenWetWare
(http://openwetware.org), a wiki serving the biological science and
engineering community.
Biography
Adapted from the Science Commons:
John Wilbanks is currently the Executive Director of Science Commons.
Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and
activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science. Their goal is
to encourage stake-holders to create areas of free access and inquiry
using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science Commons' built
out of voluntary private agreements.
John came to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web
Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded
and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built
semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research &
development. Before founding Incellico, John was the first Assistant
Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law
School. He was previously a legislative aide to U.S. Representative
Fortney (Pete) Stark and a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for
the American Physical Therapy Association. John holds a Bachelor of
Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters at
the Universite de Paris IV (La Sorbonne). He serves on the Advisory
Board of the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and the
International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars Electronica's Digital
Communities awards.