A contractually reconstructed research commons for scientific data in a highly protectionist intellectual property environment Description: Extensive article analyzing the legal situation in 2003 regarding open access to scientific data, its threats and possible ways to ensure it in the future. Abstract: Factual data are fundamental to the progress of science and to our preeminent system of innovation. Freedom of inquiry, the open availability of scientific data, and full disclosure of results through publication are the cornerstones of basic research, which both domestic law and the norms of public science have long upheld. Law and Contemporary Problems Author(s):Reichman, J.H. & Uhlir, P.F., Contributor(s): 2003-01 Open access to biodiversity data, Intellectual Property Rights English http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/894/ application/msword http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=4899 Internet URL Requests related to this metadata record should be addressed to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, gbif@gbif.org, +4535321470 Rights: Copyright © 2003 by J.H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir Right holders: J.H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir