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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • November 12, 2004
    An article by John Borland:

    ``Creative Commons, a nonprofit group aimed at carving out ways to share creative works, is expanding from the realm of copyright into patents and scientific publishing....

    ``The group's move into the scientific sphere could help add new weight to growing criticisms that the current patent process has become too inflexible and often awards too much protection to ideas that aren't genuinely unique....

    ``An intellectual-property system that allows sharing between scientists is particularly important, given research grants that often make results proprietary, as well as recent international changes in patent law that expand the scope of data protection, the group said. The `commons' approach could help introduce needed flexibility, it added.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5447531.html

    Creative Commons:
    http://creativecommons.org

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