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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.

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Intellectual property:

Is it in the public domain?

New tool to see if a book is in the public domain.

Copyright versus health and safety

Los Angeles caves to the record industry but Congress got there first.

Indonesia, bird flu viruses and the moral high ground

The US gander gets some of the sauce it serves up for the Indonesian goose.

Not the Apple of my eye

Apple acting like Microsoft

Attorney General Mukasey intent on sending his reputation down the toilet

Mukasey rolls over for the Bushies. Again.

Sony BMG caught pirating software

Schadenfreude, mein Schadenfreude.

Indonesia and collateral damage of their flu policy

Indonesian Health Minister is just another version of George W. Bush

YouTube Demand letter: Criminal or just dumb and dumber?

Lawyer makes obviously false statement under pain and penalty of perjury. Maybe she's just incompetent.

Indonesian virus sharing and "God's Plan"

Indonesian virus starts to move again as Siti Supari self-destructs.

Indonesian virus sharing by the book

Did Health Minister Supari's self-immolation shake bird flu sharing loose.

Unfettered access to scientific work via open access publication

The tide is turning in making free access to scientific work really free.

WHO releases information on viral sharing and disposition

Share but not share alike.

Your rights: long may they waive

Corey Doctorow's anti-EULA.

Big Pharma's blind profits compromise

Genentech's grudging arrangement allows elders to get treatment preventing blindness.

Declan Butler's interview with Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari

Nature's senior correspondent, Declan Butler, was one of the first to raise the profile of a pandemic threat in the scientific community and has had done some superb reporting since, including several stories on sharing gene sequences. The problematic actors...

Birds, bird flu, bird brains and scientists behaving badly

A Nature Commentary that makes sense and is a Call to Action. Again.

Indon's Supari says "no". Is this the bottom line for Geneva?

Does "no" mean failure?

Flu virus sharing summit: wrap up

What was and wasn't accomplished at a critical meeting in Geneva.

(Final) Day 4 of flu virus sharing summit: meeting ends in qualified success

Interim agreement on virus sharing fashioned at important summit in Geneva.

Day 3 of flu virus sharing summit: participant account

Eyewitness account of third day of critical meeting in Geneva.

Day 2 of flu virus sharing summit: participant account

View from the inside.

Day 1 of the flu virus sharing summit

Share and share alike. Or not.

The virus sharing puzzle

If a rogue H5N1 virus easiy tansmissible between people is to develop, the most plausible spot for it to happen is Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous with a vast reservoir of infected poultry (and who knows what else) and...

Since I can't watch The Daily Show . . .

Why a billion dollars is worth nothing.

Stonewalling at the ACS

Anonymous emailer makes life uncomfortable for ACS execs.

Trouble at the American Chemical Society

A cry of pain from within the ACS.

Turn down that radio! Or else.

Just when you thought it couldn't get dumber.

Harvard law professors flunk Harvard's college bookstore

Copyright 101 for the benighted Harvard college bookstore.

Harvard bookstore calls the cops

But cops refuse to take action.

Harvard bookstore says its prices are intellectual property

The Harvard Coop makes itself a laughingstock.

PRISM makes me crazy and Dave Munger Makes my Day

Big science publishers show once again why they belong in the Hypocrites Hall of Fame

Regal Entertainment Group: Royal assholes

Going after a 19 year old on her birthday for recording 20 seconds of a movie.

Cut the panflu patent Gordian Knot

Patent nonsense should be no nonsense.

The Bush twins: no amnesty (Updated, corrected and retracted)

Equal justice for all.

Pandemic virus as property

Who owns a pandemic strain of virus? Should anyone?

Radical intellectual property surgery for science

Intellectual property appeasement comes back to bite scientists.

Neuroscience breakthrough technique is patent nonsense

Stanford and MIT. Business as usual.

NIH funds a private company. Why?

Everybody should think of starting a new career once in a while, and New Year's Day seems as good a time as any for US taxpayers to embark on their new jobs as Venture Capitalists. Medgadget, a site that brings...

New congress: IP wanker will be in charge

In the new US Congress, the fox will guard the "intellectual property" henhouse.

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