Dan Burk: Open Source, Open Science October 10, 2006

In the age of bioinformatics and e-science, the scientific community is increasingly advocating licensing strategies drawn from open source software development. But the culture and practice of scientific research community differs in significant ways from that of open source coding, posing new legal and cultural challenges to the adoption of open source strategies for science.

Dan Burk is an authority on the law of intellectual property, specializing in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology. He is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, and also holds an appointment at the school's Center for Bioethics. He has been closely involved in the development of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences, and in the creation of the University's Internet Studies Center. He teaches courses in Copyright, Patent, and Biotechnology Law, and is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, on the regulation of biotechnology, and on the intellectual property implications of global computer networks.

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