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Congress, Intellectual Property

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers late Tuesday introduced legislation that would overturn a recent mandate that the National Institutes of Health require federally supported scientists to submit their research manuscripts for free public access on the Internet. The requirement passed as part of the fiscal year 2008 Labor-Health and Human Services appropriations bill without allowing input by committees with expertise and oversight on copyright. The bill is co-sponsored by Reps. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Robert Wexler, D-Fla.

Last September, Conyers slammed the powerful House Appropriations Committee for not consulting with his panel (see CongressDaily story). "We have tried to communicate repeatedly with the leader of that committee ... and what did we get? Nothing," Conyers said at a hearing of the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee. He said he viewed the silence as a blow-off by Appropriations Chairman David Obey and said he was frustrated that appropriators ran roughshod over the "sacred jurisdiction" of his committee to act "summarily, unilaterally and probably incorrectly."

Open access and consumer advocates championed the NIH's new requirement while publishers panned it, arguing that it could put subscription-based scientific journals out of business. "The mere fact that a scientist accepts as part of her funding a federal grant should not enable the federal government to commandeer the resulting peer-reviewed research paper and treat it as a public domain work," Copyright Alliance Executive Director Patrick Ross said in a Wednesday statement. "Grants are provided to pay for the research and resulting data... But taking the scientist's copyrighted interpretation of the data is not fair to other funders, and it violates the rights of the publisher."

20 Responses

Thursday, January 7, 2010

I Newtin

The recent mandate that the National Institutes of Health require federally supported scientists to submit their research manuscripts for free public access on the Internet is 100% correct. Firstly we pay their costs from our tax money ( I sometimes would rather pay my electricity bill ) But its our money as well as its our benifit so I can see this from both sides of the fence.  Others have said that if its cancer treatment then they must share thier findings otherwise we will never move on. I think there should be full transparancy.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Mary

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Ben

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Cindy

Generally I do not post on blogs, but I have to mention that this post really forced me to do so. Really nice post!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Hrmm that was weird, my comment got eaten. Anyway I wanted to say that it's nice to know that someone else also mentioned this as I had trouble finding the same info elsewhere. This was the first place that told me the answer. Thanks.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Sharon

I am from Singapore and I ma glad to see my government is taking steps towards open data. It has been encouraging various government agencies and ministries to start opening their data so that the rest of the country can find ways to better utilse them. One such example I have seen is a clever application that takes the traffic videos and mapping them to Google map before sending the combined data to your iPhone.

Sharon, webmaster of automatic heated dog watering system

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Monday, December 7, 2009

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Andy

I think open data is going to affect almost everything, including research publications. This is the right move. With more availability of information, we are going to see innovations being built on top of innovations. That is the kind of thing that will have an expotential growth curve if we allow it to happen. I run a small site selling used heart shaped engagement rings and I am happy to see how open data can affect my business!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Andy

I think open data is going to affect almost everything, including research publications. This is the right move. With more availability of information, we are going to see innovations being built on top of innovations. That is the kind of thing that will have an expotential growth curve if we allow it to happen. I run a small site selling used heart shaped engagement rings and I am happy to see how open data can affect my business!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Janet

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Jasom

Honestly I believe that the Government should get out of everyones business. Its just sad they think they have the right to affect business.  Hopefully they will worry about getting the U.S. out of debt instead of trying to put more control over the American people.  I run several lake tahoe rentals and cabins and Im just waiting for them to come run my business haha. Be proud to be free !

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