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How Patent Abuse Could Hurt the Fight Against the Pandemic
You probably don’t remember the day the White House issued its 2013 open access memo, but I’ll never forget it. That’s the rule that requires any research funded by the federal government to be made available to the public one year (at most) after publication. I was working back then at Creative Commons, an organization that advocates for strong open access policies. I remember saying to a colleague, “Well, time to find a new cause.”
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