[net-gold] Global Innovation Commons

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 11:52:02 -0500 (EST)




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Subject: Global Innovation Commons



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Tue Jan 5, 2010 3:09 pm
"George Lessard" <media@xxxxxxx>
themediamentor



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Global Innovation Commons




What would happen if you were given
over $2 trillion? That's right, if
someone walked up to you and gave
you $2 trillion. That could never
happen, right?



In fact, that is exactly what has
just happened.



While the patent system has been
around since the 17th century when
it was developed by nobles in Italy
and England, it may surprise you
that the system was designed to
benefit you.



Patents were supposed to be a public
disclosure to advance science and
useful knowledge. If someone shared
sufficient information to teach the
public about a novel development or
useful technology, they would have a
limited time (about 20 years) to
decide who could use that idea.



There's some bad news and some good
news. First, the bad news: For the
past 30 years, patents have been abused.
Rather than serving the public's
expansion of knowledge, they've been
used as business and legal weapons.
Over 50,000,000 patents covering
everything you do have served to keep you
from benefiting in many aspects of your
life. Many life-saving treatments
have been kept from the market because
they threaten established business
interests. The world's ecosystem has
been severely damaged because
efficiencies have been kept from
entereing the market.



In the face of all this, however,
there is the good news: The thirty year
"cold war" of innovation is over.
Today, you now have access to it all. In
the Global Innovation Commons, we have
assembled hundreds of thousands of
innovations - most in the form of
patents - which are either expired,
no-longer maintained (meaning that
the fees to keep the patents in force
have lapsed), disallowed, or unprotected
in most, if not all, relevant markets.


This means that, as of right now, you can
take a step into a world full of
possibilities, not roadblocks. You want
clean water for China or Sudan - it's in
here. You want carbon-free energy - it's
in here. You want food production for Asia
or South America - it's in here.



But here's the catch. We're sharing this
under a license. The license is really
simple. If you use this information, you
must share what you're doing with everyone
else. If you improve upon it, you must share
your improvements with everyone else.
And finally, if you use any of this
information, you must reference the
"Global Innovation Commons." That's
it. When you take the next step, turn
the possibilities into realities.




<http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/>



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[net-gold] Global Innovation Commons

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