Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post; Trump administration sues drugmaker Gilead Sciences over patent on Truvada for HIV prevention
"The Trump administration took the rare step Wednesday of filing a patent
infringement lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturer Gilead
Sciences over sales of Truvada for HIV prevention, a crucial therapy
invented and patented by Centers for Disease Control researchers."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label taxpayer-funded research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxpayer-funded research. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
UC open access fight exposes publishing rip-off: Charging exorbitant fees for journal articles isn’t in the best interests of scientific research, Mercury News, March 6, 2019
MERCURY NEWS & EAST BAY TIMES EDITORIAL BOARDS; Editorial: UC open access fight exposes publishing rip-off
Charging exorbitant fees for journal articles isn’t in the best interests of scientific research
"The scholarly research publishing industry is a rip-off that hinders scientific advances and piles unnecessary costs onto taxpayers who already fund much of the academic work.
It’s ridiculous that, in this age of the internet, researchers are paying huge fees for access to academic papers and for publication of their own work. That made sense in the days when scholarly works were printed in bound volumes. Today, academic work, especially public- and foundation-funded research, should be open for all. It shouldn’t cost $35 to $40 for each article, effectively freezing out those without the means to pay...
The University of California’s mission statement reads: “The distinctive mission of the university is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge.”
UC’s commitment to open access helps fulfill that goal and advances scientific enterprise for the benefit of all."
Monday, August 27, 2018
Who Gets to Read the Research We Pay For?; Slate, August 21, 2018
Aaron Mak, Slate; Who
Gets to Read the Research We Pay For?: Scientific journals’ lock on new
studies has ignited tension for years. When it comes to access for
people with rare diseases, it becomes an ethical issue too.
This is just one reckless tweet in the heat of a Twitter spat (though it’s worth bearing Gunn’s job title in mind), and, sure, he later apologized. But the issue of rare-disease families trying to avoid the high fees associated with accessing research on potential treatments goes beyond this Twitter spat: It’s a real problem that has not been adequately fixed by the company."
"This does not sit well with academics and other members of the
research community, who often publicly complain about the company’s
profit margins, its allegedly restrictive copyrights, and the fact that
much of the research it sells access to is taxpayer-funded. This public
outrage seems to have gotten under the skin of William Gunn, Elsevier’s
director of scholarly communications. When one user argued that people
in rare-disease families “shouldn’t have to jump through additional
hoops to access information,” Gunn responded,
“Yes, everyone should have rainbows, unicorns, & puppies delivered
to their doorstep by volunteers. Y’all keep wishing for that, I’ll keep
working on producing the best knowledge and distributing it as best we
can.”
This is just one reckless tweet in the heat of a Twitter spat (though it’s worth bearing Gunn’s job title in mind), and, sure, he later apologized. But the issue of rare-disease families trying to avoid the high fees associated with accessing research on potential treatments goes beyond this Twitter spat: It’s a real problem that has not been adequately fixed by the company."
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