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

[Richard Jensen]

Those patent applications give the impression that someone is trying to 
claim, as a "new invention", the processes that any good taxonomist must 
work through.  Perhaps I should patent my particular methods of choice 
for conducting a biological survey or for writing a monograph.

Cheers,

Dick J

On 3/6/2013 12:39 PM, David Patterson wrote:
> 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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