Lex Ferenda

This is the full statement by two organisations involved in scientific publishing, responding to the current controversy on access to data. Broadly speaking a positive statement, and has the added intrigue of this: “The academic and publishing communities should discuss further (in the context of the debate on the public funding of research) whether [...]

Interesting things are happening at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the specialised organ of the UN that is probably best known in recent years for its role in the negotiation of the ‘Internet Treaties’. There’s a meeting tomorrow in Barcelona (or as Freddie Mercury would say, Bar-ce-lo-na!. BoingBoing says quite bluntly that [...]