[Taxacom] Your input, please, on attribution, rights and licensing of names and compilations of names

[Gerwin Kasperek]

Can anyone explain, in a nutshell, what the reasons or motivations are  
behind a tendency towards protecting taxonomic methods by patent, such  
as the following United States patents or patent applications (all  
three of them explicitely about taxonomic and nomenclatural  
information in biology):

http://tinyurl.com/d6ep9gk
("Managing taxonomic information")

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2013/0013603.html
  ("Semiotic indexing of digital resources")

http://tinyurl.com/d4ahtq4
("Systems and methods for resolving ambiguity between names and entities")

Can anyone explain the relationship between NamesforLife(TM) and other  
projects in biodiversity informatics?

Regards
Gerwin

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Dr Gerwin Kasperek
University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Quoting "Scott L. Gardner" <slg at unl.edu>:

> This licensing of names will stifle scholarly communication and make
> doing science trivial. All scholarly communication should be done at
> cost and non-profit.  SCOTT GARDNER
>
> On 3/5/2013 4:07 PM, David Patterson wrote:
>> The Global Names project will host a workshop to explore options and to
>> make recommendations as to  issues that relate to Attribution, Rights and
>> Licensing of names and compilations of names.  The aim of the workshop is a
>> report that clarifies if and how we share names.
>>
>>
>> We seek submissions from all interested parties - nomenclaturalists,
>> taxonomists, aggregators, and users of names. Let us know what (you think)
>>   intellectual property rights apply or what rights should be associated
>> with names and compilations of names.  How can those who compile names get
>> useful attribution for names, and what responsibilities do they have to
>> ensure that information is authoritative.  If there are rights, what kind
>> of licensing is appropriate.
>>
>>
>> The submissions will be considered by those attending the workshop.
>>
>>
>>
>> Contributions can be submitted
>> http://names-attribution-rights-and-licensing.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page,
>> where you will find more information about this event.
>>
>>
>> Thankyou
>>
>>
>> David Patterson
>> globalnames.org
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