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OpenWetWare Seminar Series on Open Science

Impacts of Property Rights on Open Science
John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons

Open to the Public
1pm, Friday March 24, 2006
MIT Stata Center, 32-155

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series

Talk Overview
This talk will lay out the basic intersections of property rights -
copyrights, patents, and contracts - with scientific research. The
talk will also examine how approaches inspired by the Free Software
movement might help create a "research commons" of freely usable
tools, papers and data. Specific case studies in biological materials
transfer and text mining of gene interaction networks will be
presented for discussion.

This seminar series is sponsored by OpenWetWare (http://openwetware.org), 
a wiki serving the biological science and engineering community.

Biography
Adapted from the Science Commons:

John Wilbanks is currently the Executive Director of Science Commons.
Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies
and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science.  Their
goal is to encourage stake-holders to create areas of free access and
inquiry using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science
Commons' built out of voluntary private agreements.

John came to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web
Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded
and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built
semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research &
development. Before founding Incellico, John was the first Assistant
Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
Law School. He was previously a legislative aide to U.S.
Representative Fortney (Pete) Stark and a grassroots coordinator and
fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. John holds
a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University and studied
modern letters at the Universite de Paris IV (La Sorbonne). He serves
on the Advisory Board of the U.S. National Library of Medicine's
PubMed Central and the International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars
Electronica's Digital Communities awards.