This talk lays out the basic intersections of property rights - copyrights, patents, and contracts - with scientific research. The talk also examines how approaches inspired by the Free Software movement might help create a "research commons" of freely usable tools, papers and data. Specific case studies in biological materials transfer and text mining of gene interaction networks are presented for discussion.
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