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open-discussion > RE: More effective than gratis/libre?
Nov 27, 2013 01:11 PM | Andrew Worth
RE: More effective than gratis/libre?
There's a short interesting article in Science (9 August 2013), "Who Will Pay for Public Access to Research Data?" by Francine
Berman and Vint Cerf. Their final suggestion is to:
Berman and Cerf go on to mention, "the take-and-pay rule" which is tantalizing! That idea (described here) is that
Andy.
Encourage research culture change to take
advantage of what works in the private sector. Finally,
researchers, like the general public, subscribe to digital versions
of newspapers, donate to Wikipedia, pay for and download iTunes,
buy data services on-line, and so forth. In other words,
researchers pay for many kinds of digital data. Yet there is
widespread expectation that access to research data should be
supported by the government or academic institutions and be free to
the research community. [...] Imagine supporting the National
Virtual Observatory (astronomy data) from telescope advertisements
or paying a small download fee for data from digital marine
collections in the same way we download music from the
Internet.
That is almost what I am advocating here. The difference is that we
need support not only to maintain and release existing data
(cheap), but also to label new scans (expensive).Berman and Cerf go on to mention, "the take-and-pay rule" which is tantalizing! That idea (described here) is that
One may freely take the materials for any
research purpose, without need of any permission to use, on
condition that a duty to pay equitable compensation arises if and
when the application itself accrues commercial gains.
and... the message is not, "You cannot use my
microbial materials for commercial purposes." It is instead the
opposite: "Please find commercial uses for my research materials,
and, when you patent the end results, please pay me a reasonable
royalty from your gross sales."
Wouldn't that be great? However, it would be quite easy for
unscrupulous companies to download and use the IBSR data (for
example) for purposes unallowed by its license. The only way the
take-and-pay rule will work is if the companies knew they would get
caught. Then there is the issue of what is a "reasonable royalty."Andy.
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