Open source licensing defuses copyright law's threat to medicine

Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 06:30 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Enforcing copyright law could potentially interfere with patient care, stifle innovation and discourage research, but using open source licensing instead can prevent the problem, according to a physician – who practices both at the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center – and a legal scholar at the UC Hastings College of Law.

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