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.