Nature: WIPO to Address Free Public Goods

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On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:55, Seth Johnson wrote:
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> From: James Love 
> To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property 
> Sent: 7/10/03 7:03 PM 
> Subject: Nature: Drive for patent-free innovation gathers pace -  Kamil
> Idris is being asked to assess the merits of an open approach to
> intellectual property
> 
> Nature reports that WIPO has agreed to organize the meeting on open
> development models... jamie
> 
> * Francis Gurry, an assistant director-general at the WIPO, said that the
> organization welcomed the idea.ÂThe use of open and collaborative
> development models for research and innovation is a very important and
> interesting development,Â he said in a statement. ÂThe director-general
> looks forward with enthusiasm to taking up the invitation to organize a
> conference to explore the scope and application of these models.Â
> 
> in html
> 
> > http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v424/n6945/full/424118a_fs.html
> or in pdf
> > http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v424/n6945/full/424118a_fs.html&content_filetype=PDF
> 
> 118 NATURE|VOL 424 | 10 JULY 2003 |www.nature.com/nature
> 
> ***
> 
> Drive for patent-free innovation gathers pace
> 
> Kamil Idris is being asked to assess the merits of an open approach to
> intellectual property.
> 
> Declan Butler,Paris
> 
> A group of top scientists and economists are asking the World Intellectual
> Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva to promote open models of innovation
> that don't rely on patents.
> 
> The group believes that innovation based on freely available knowledge can
> be effective not just in areas where it has established a foothold -- such
> as genome sequence data -- but also in sectors where patent protection is
> entirely dominant, such as drug development (see Nature 424, 10Â11; 2003).
> 
> In a 7 July letter to Kamil Idris, director general of the WIPO, 59
> scientists and economists call attention to the "explosion of open and
> collaborative projects to create public goods" in recent years, including
> the Human Genome Project, the open-source software movement, and Internet
> standards. Such projects show that "one can achieve a high level of
> innovation in some areas of the modern economy without intellectual property
> protection," says the letter, arguing that "excessive, unbalanced or poorly
> designed intellectual property protections may be counterproductive." It
> calls on the WIPO to hold a major conference on these models during 2004.
> 
> The signatories include Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University in New York,
> who received the 2001 Nobel prize for economics; John Sulston of the
> Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK, winner of the 2002 Nobel
> prize for medicine; James Orbinski, former president of MÃ©decins Sans
> FrontiÃ¨res; and Richard Stallman, a computer scientist regarded by many as
> the "father" of the open-source software movement.
> 
> Francis Gurry, an assistant director-general at the WIPO, said that the
> organization welcomed the idea.  "The use of open and collaborative
> development models for research and innovation is a very important and
> interesting development," he said in a statement.  "The director-general
> looks forward with enthusiasm to taking up the invitation to organize a
> conference to explore the scope and application of these models.'
> 
> Advocates of open-source innovation want the WIPO and other public agencies
> to rethink how innovation works, says James Love, director of the
> Washington-based Consumer Project on Technology and a signatory to the
> letter.  Open research for drug development is one of the initiativeÂs main
> targets, he says.  Some of the authors are also pursuing the idea of an
> international treaty to encourage governments to fund drug research and put
> the results directly into the public domain.
> 
> Love argues that research results should ultimately become a freely
> available commodity, with drug companies competing to market generics of any
> drugs developed.  The current system, in which drug research and development
> is carried out by drug companies that keep patent rights for up to 20 years,
> is grossly inefficient and results in excessive prices so that those who
> need the drugs most cannot afford them, argues Love.
> 
> Yet to be fleshed out are details of how such a model would work, and how
> competitive forces could be maintained within it.But in May, the general
> assembly of the World Health Organization instructed agency officials to
> draft terms of reference during 2004 for a new evaluation of intellectual
> property, innovation and public health.  Consideration of open-science
> models is expected to be part of this exercise.
> 
> "The success of the Internet and of open-source software has driven home
> just how far open and collaborative projects can go," says Hal Varian, an
> economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has also signed the
> 7 July letter.
> 
> Another signatory, Paul David, an economist at Stanford University, argues
> that systems such as free and open-source software are not at odds with
> intellectual property rights protection, but rather a choice by creators and
> society as to the benefits they want to obtain.
> 
> 118 NATURE|VOL 424 | 10 JULY 2003 |www.nature.com/nature Kamil Idris is
> being asked to assess the merits of an open approach to intellectual
> property.
> 
> -- 
> James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
> http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love at cptech.org
> tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040
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