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

[David Patterson]

Gerwin

I am forwarding this to some of the people associated  with the patents so
they can comment.

David Patterson

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Gerwin Kasperek <sls2411 at ub.uni-frankfurt.de
> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Dr Gerwin Kasperek
> University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
> Frankfurt am Main, Germany
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> 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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