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HOPE, Janet
Janet Hope is a qualified biochemist and molecular biologist, as well as a former practicing lawyer. She has published in the fields of constitutional, criminal, administrative, environmental, human rights, and intellectual property law.
In January 2003, she published the first substantial treatise on open-source biotechnology (available at rsss.anu.edu.au/~janeth). Under the supervision of Professor Peter Drahos, she completed her doctoral dissertation on Open Source Biotechnology at the Australian National University in 2004.
Together with colleagues Dianne Nicol and John Braithwaite, Dr. Hope is the recipient of an Australian Research Council grant to investigate a range of collaborative intellectual property mechanisms in the Australian biotechnology industry. Her book Bio Bazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology will be published by Harvard University Press in late 2007.
Abstract
Open Source Licensing
Abstract:
This chapter provides an introduction to open source software licensing. The chapter seeks to demystify the concept of open source so that intellectual property (IP) owners and managers can decide whether an open source approach is worth pursuing. The chapter explains the principles of free and open source software licensing and outlines the decisions that an innovator must make when deciding which strategy to use for developing a new innovation. Also explained are the differences between open source and public domain, and between the uses of the terms copyleft and academic to describe open source licenses, as well as the incentives (financial and otherwise) for open source licensing. Finally, the author identifies important considerations regarding the possibilities for open source licensing in fields other than software development, particularly biomedicine and agricultural biotechnology.
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