| Andreas Broeckmann on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:58:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> PATENTING OPEN SOURCE |
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:08:48 +0200 (CEST) From: [email protected] PATENTING OPEN SOURCE Patent protection for open source software may seem like a contradiction in terms, but the Foresight Institute, which campaigns for the free exchange of knowledge in software and nanotechnology, has teamed up with IP.com, a Silicon Valley start-up, to work on the PriorArt initiative for programmers and scientists. Under the initiative, software developers and nanotechnologists are encouraged to undertake 'defensive publishing' - which means releasing their innovations into the public domain so others cannot later patent what they have invented. Such public disclosure of innovation is known in law as 'prior art'. http://www.priorart.org/press1.jsp # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]