FTISA is submitting comments to the South African parliamentary committee on the new IPR bill on publicly funded research.
The FTISA submission on the bill can be found here. You will need to be invited by a FTISA member to participate in adding your inputs to the document.
: ..language was patented and couldn't evolve
: open science amongst African scientists was not science fiction...
: the cure to the AIDS virus was patented on discovery...
: the International Standards Organisation required standards to be open
: poor entrepreneurs could innovate without fear of being sued by multinationals
: Imagine if you could use the research paid for by your taxes
: Imagine if when your taxes paid to write code then you could use that code
: There is no freedom without freedom to innovate!
: My taxes my content
: Einstein stayed in a patent office
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