From SciFoo 08:
Victoria Stodden discusses her efforts to create a new license for scientific research which covers both publication and data. She discusses the motivations behind the new license and the issues brought up by releasing scientific research and data under and open source license.Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O'Brien.
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