Is it in the public domain?
New tool to see if a book is in the public domain.Posted on June 26, 2008 8:06 AM • 4 Comments •
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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:
Copyright versus health and safety
Los Angeles caves to the record industry but Congress got there first.Posted on May 10, 2008 12:32 PM • 19 Comments •
Indonesia, bird flu viruses and the moral high ground
The US gander gets some of the sauce it serves up for the Indonesian goose.Posted on April 15, 2008 7:04 AM • 26 Comments •
Not the Apple of my eye
Apple acting like MicrosoftPosted on April 8, 2008 4:48 PM • 15 Comments •
Attorney General Mukasey intent on sending his reputation down the toilet
Mukasey rolls over for the Bushies. Again.Posted on April 4, 2008 3:41 PM • 6 Comments •
Sony BMG caught pirating software
Schadenfreude, mein Schadenfreude.Posted on March 31, 2008 3:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Indonesia and collateral damage of their flu policy
Indonesian Health Minister is just another version of George W. BushPosted on March 25, 2008 7:51 AM • 7 Comments •
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.Posted on March 10, 2008 3:41 PM • 15 Comments •
Indonesian virus sharing and "God's Plan"
Indonesian virus starts to move again as Siti Supari self-destructs.Posted on March 2, 2008 3:15 PM • 12 Comments •
Indonesian virus sharing by the book
Did Health Minister Supari's self-immolation shake bird flu sharing loose.Posted on February 23, 2008 7:19 AM • 14 Comments •
Unfettered access to scientific work via open access publication
The tide is turning in making free access to scientific work really free.Posted on February 15, 2008 3:20 PM • 7 Comments •
WHO releases information on viral sharing and disposition
Share but not share alike.Posted on January 22, 2008 4:09 AM • 2 Comments •
Your rights: long may they waive
Corey Doctorow's anti-EULA.Posted on December 29, 2007 7:27 AM • 4 Comments •
Big Pharma's blind profits compromise
Genentech's grudging arrangement allows elders to get treatment preventing blindness.Posted on December 24, 2007 7:19 AM • 7 Comments •
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...Posted on December 20, 2007 7:06 AM • 16 Comments •
Birds, bird flu, bird brains and scientists behaving badly
A Nature Commentary that makes sense and is a Call to Action. Again.Posted on December 10, 2007 7:41 AM • 11 Comments •
Indon's Supari says "no". Is this the bottom line for Geneva?
Does "no" mean failure?Posted on November 26, 2007 7:54 AM • 13 Comments •
Flu virus sharing summit: wrap up
What was and wasn't accomplished at a critical meeting in Geneva.Posted on November 24, 2007 5:25 PM • 9 Comments •
(Final) Day 4 of flu virus sharing summit: meeting ends in qualified success
Interim agreement on virus sharing fashioned at important summit in Geneva.Posted on November 24, 2007 7:16 AM • 6 Comments •
Day 3 of flu virus sharing summit: participant account
Eyewitness account of third day of critical meeting in Geneva.Posted on November 23, 2007 7:21 AM • 3 Comments •
Day 2 of flu virus sharing summit: participant account
View from the inside.Posted on November 22, 2007 7:37 AM • 6 Comments •
Day 1 of the flu virus sharing summit
Share and share alike. Or not.Posted on November 21, 2007 7:38 AM • 9 Comments •
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...Posted on November 20, 2007 7:23 AM • 20 Comments •
Since I can't watch The Daily Show . . .
Why a billion dollars is worth nothing.Posted on November 17, 2007 4:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Stonewalling at the ACS
Anonymous emailer makes life uncomfortable for ACS execs.Posted on October 23, 2007 3:48 PM • 1 Comments •
Trouble at the American Chemical Society
A cry of pain from within the ACS.Posted on October 12, 2007 4:01 PM • 9 Comments •
Turn down that radio! Or else.
Just when you thought it couldn't get dumber.Posted on October 10, 2007 3:51 PM • 18 Comments •
Harvard law professors flunk Harvard's college bookstore
Copyright 101 for the benighted Harvard college bookstore.Posted on September 27, 2007 4:49 PM • 11 Comments •
Harvard bookstore calls the cops
But cops refuse to take action.Posted on September 24, 2007 4:29 PM • 26 Comments •
Harvard bookstore says its prices are intellectual property
The Harvard Coop makes itself a laughingstock.Posted on September 22, 2007 7:49 AM • 17 Comments •
PRISM makes me crazy and Dave Munger Makes my Day
Big science publishers show once again why they belong in the Hypocrites Hall of FamePosted on August 30, 2007 4:08 PM • 6 Comments •
Regal Entertainment Group: Royal assholes
Going after a 19 year old on her birthday for recording 20 seconds of a movie.Posted on August 25, 2007 7:34 AM • 37 Comments •
Cut the panflu patent Gordian Knot
Patent nonsense should be no nonsense.Posted on August 1, 2007 7:20 AM • 22 Comments •
The Bush twins: no amnesty (Updated, corrected and retracted)
Equal justice for all.Posted on June 23, 2007 7:45 AM • 16 Comments •
Pandemic virus as property
Who owns a pandemic strain of virus? Should anyone?Posted on June 22, 2007 7:03 AM • 11 Comments •
Radical intellectual property surgery for science
Intellectual property appeasement comes back to bite scientists.Posted on May 28, 2007 3:53 PM • 12 Comments •
Neuroscience breakthrough technique is patent nonsense
Stanford and MIT. Business as usual.Posted on April 24, 2007 3:53 PM • 0 Comments •
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...Posted on January 1, 2007 5:31 PM • 12 Comments •
New congress: IP wanker will be in charge
In the new US Congress, the fox will guard the "intellectual property" henhouse.Posted on November 9, 2006 5:28 PM • 13 Comments •
