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The Patent and the Paper: A Few Thoughts on Late Modern Science and Intellectual Property
2015
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Marie and Pierre Curie's decision not to patent the discovery (1898) and later isolation (1902) of radium is perhaps the most famous of all disinterested decisions in the history of science. To choose publishing instead of patenting and openness instead of enclosure was hardly a radical choice at the time. Traditionally, we associate academic publishing with "pure science" and Mertonian ideals of openness, sharing and transparency. Patenting on the other hand, as a byproduct of "applied
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