Interrompo subito il mio silenzio perche' ho parlato di SECTOR a un amico anglofono ma residente a roma e rivisto al no-border (che si e' anche iscritto alla lista laser: ciao A.!) che lo ha addirittura tradotto in inglese per maggior portabilita'. Ora siamo tutti in vacanza (piu' o meno, io no), ma a breve mi piacerebbe avere le idee piu' chiare su chi potrebbe essere interessato dentro LASER a proporre simili idee. SECTOR e' solo un "manifesto", un "draft" ed e' pure riduttivo, va stropicciato e spiegazzato secondo le esigenze ci chi ci mette mani e piedi dentro.
ciao a **** Intro 1. We want technological innovation to take place without patents and in a 'free' environment'. As usual, the model is that of copyleft and free software. But there's a problem: whilst copyright can be adapted to become copyleft, patents cannot become anti-patents with the same ease because: - to patent an invention is not free of cost, whereas with Copyright is - to patent an invention one has to make an application, whilst copyright is a natural right. Basically, anyone who wishes to patent in an alternative way has to spend a ton of money and deal with a mass of bureaucracy such that an alternative patent is (today) unfeasible. Two Possible Solutions 2.1 To find a legal instrument to hijack patents: if only Lescai, Sterpo and I think about it we won't get too far. But perhaps if a range of minds begin to think about it then perhaps something more can emerge. 2.2 A public institution such as the EU could 'finance' innovation unfastened from patents, investing in a public and horizontal circulation of knowledge (which produces innovation through cooperation) rather than through a market in knowledge (that produces innovation by means of competition for profit). ' 3. The S.E.C.T.O.R. Project (No Limits) S.E.C.T.O.R.= European Space of Horizontal Technological Cooperation One could propose to the EU the financing of a multidisciplinary research project (SECTOR, exactly) aimed at finding a new model of Technology Transfer" (NB, TT is the means by which ideas are transformed into technology available to society'). For example, patents drive an inventor to invent and a business to know of the invention and make a product out of it) adopting solution 2.1 or 2.2 Obviously, Laser on its own can't get bugger all financed by the EU on its own. The idea is rather that Laser proposes this idea to different subjects, specialized in various areas, each one in their own sector, who can contribute to the research project. Laser would function as the connective tissue of these subjects, capable of convening them and bringing them into contact with each other. The each one could decide to invest some of their resources in the project. e.g. If A. B. (vice-director of the CNEL) supports the idea, he'd receive the funds from the EU and pay a young researcher to work on it. 4. The Research project of Sector Research has hypothesis and Objectives 4.1 The Hypothesis The EU wants to bridge the innovation gap with respect to the US and Japan (and soon with China and india). 4.1.2 Europe is chasing the US in R&D in a rough way; they finance only research in which the business sector have already manifested commercial interest or which can be certain of producing patents. But the EU has become more realist than the king: today the US finances far more basic research in comparison with the EU (eg also for military purposes and not only out of love for knowledge) 4.1.3 The gap between the US and EU is not diminishing but the contrary. 4.1.4 The Eu, especially with the entry of the eastern countries, has a possibility of circulating knowledge that the US does not have, but its not exploited by more dynamic capitalism, which uses informal networks only to trade ham produced in Parma and sold in Berlin. Technological innovation is following old models (investments by big business) or those apparently but not really 'new'. 4.2 The Objectives of SECTOR To equip the EU with the instruments to make Europe an Open Source space in which the knowledge of R & D circulate freely and produce innovation in an alternative way with respect to the US, following the path set out in 2.1 or 2.2. Here are the steps involved: 4.2.1 Show that the EU-US gap (from various points of view) is widening despite European science being ever more commercial and 'americanised'. Needed: an economist 4.2.2 Do a feasibility study of counter-patents: the observations made in point 1 occurred to us in 5 minutes but perhaps these things could be gone into in more depth. Needed: Sociologist of Science, a lawyer or an economist 4.2.3 If an anti-patent should be feasible, to write a legal draft (a sort of GPL) as needed. Needed: lawyer 4,2,4, Show that in Europe development unhindered by patents is possible and desirable and that the EU should invest in its creation (for example by adopting a 'free' policy in the newly born European Patent Office. Needed: an economist 4.2.5. Show that information is worth more if it circulates more quickly and more openly. Needed: a journalist 4.2.6. Show that for a sharp business, 'free' style development can make sense. Needed: an entrepreneur who is already operating without patents (linux Distributions), an entrepreneur who would work thus (computing/services) 4.2.7. Outline the concrete strategic policies that the EU could adopt to become a 'free R&D' space. Needed: economist 4.2.8. Produce technological instruments that facilitate the diffusion of free innovation: e.g. a p2p software for knowledge, a web site etc. Needed: programmers ------------------------------ On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 02:15 PM, pwd9148 wrote: > Ciao Alan, > > how was the end of the NoBorder camp? I was there too shortly, it is > sad > because i like very much that region. > During my stay in Salento we discussed about Bio-GPL and i mentioned a > research draft we were working on as LASER (www.e-laser.org). It was > circulated on our > mailing list, therefore i send you just the link to the message in our > public mailing list > archive: > > https://www.inventati.org/mailman/public/laser/2003-June/000626.html > > It is not a formal document, but just a summary of ideas collected and > put in > order. If you are interested in it, want to suggest changes or make > critics > on it, write to me or to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Have a nice reading > > Andrea > > -- > ciao > > pwd9148 > _______________________________________________ www.e-laser.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
