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Former Member
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I have tried to find an Intellectual Property ownership statement in the Human Proteome Folding Project outline. No luck. [Even] allowing for my lack of patience, this needs to be made clearer.
I guess the concern here is that the discoveries must be shared amongst those who contributed. A simpler model such as "free to all" availability of results would seem reasonable, if we trully are working for the benefit of the humanity as stated on the WCH home page. For example, can I see the results I submitted in some (selected) human readable form? I certainly would like to. The issue, of course, is broader. It would seem unfair if Draxo With Brine were to patent the reslut discovered on equimpent I paid for (and then made the drug based on it unaffordable to me and most of the world) |
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Dataman
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IBM owns the trademark and copyright to WCG and the license when you install the agent. The institute of Systems Biology owns the data it seems. Thanks! <dataman>
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is there a URL to the statement?
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Dataman
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Go to IBM.com and then do a search (top of page) on "World Community Grid" (with the quotes) look through the press releases for a link to trademarks. <dataman>
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Thanks Dataman.
Yeah, found it. Doesn't really say what they intend to to with it. |
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Thanks Dataman. Yeah, found it. Doesn't really say what they intend to to with it. Have you read the project faq? http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/proteome_faqs.html One way to read this is they are creating a database that anyone can access to get the information generated by all our computers work. Since this would just be one tool amoung many researchers could use, it would seem your worst fears could happen.  Because of this and the problems with the client, I think I am going to go back to SETI. At least they say if your computer processes a WU that leads to a discovery, you will get some of the credit. |
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I did read it and I thought it was much to vague. Fair enough, you don't want to spell out the details in legalese in your marketing spiel. So I looked for the details and found nothing else.
I agree, edboston, there are ways to read this but it should not be ambiguous. Btw, I have no problem if the big biotech companies have access to it, as long as the small ones do too. Or for that matter, as long as I do, even if I have no clue what to do with it. The last thing I would want to see is Systems Biology selling it at anything but the most trivial prices. |
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