...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...sions of Creative Com- mons that I helped to set up which concentrate on the sciences and on educa- tion, respectively. The practical experience of bu... ...rlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The work of Richard Sta... ...as anyone has since. He starts by dismissing the idea “that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their... ...l property, then, has still less of a claim to some permanent, absolute, and natural status. [W]hile it is a moot question whether the origin of any k... ...d of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those ... ... those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a... ...hen, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. 9 Jefferson’s... ...hase III drug trial? Again, my guess is that the increasing migration of the sciences toward data- and processing-rich models makes much more of innov...