Creative Commons For Science

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 29, 2004 @04:12AM from the piper-payers-ask-to-call-tune dept.

chrisspurgeon writes "The folks at Creative Commons are rolling out a new project aimed at improving the dissemination of scientific publications and data. The National Institutes of Health is already proposing mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research, and many scientists welcome the free redistribution of their papers, they just don't know the legal details of how to do it. The Science Commons project will take on the copyright problems unique to scientists (things like pre and post prints, and electronic vs. paper journal distribution)."

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Great by spac3manspiff · 2004-12-29 04:16 · Score: 2, Funny

now he can get his stuff copyrighted too!
Re:It won't affect for-profit science though... by jarich · 2004-12-29 05:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Do you think Eli Lilly will allow its scientists to publish under this creative commons license
Exactly! Before this happens, IBM will start shipping the Apache web server and Sun will release the Solaris source code!
Big corporations will never see the benefit to letting other eyes look over source code or bio research!
Oh, wait...

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