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and other uses is a good practice to implement, and one can use standardized
tools such as those provided by Creative Commons for this purpose.
More good practices include making inventions, tools, and materials avail-
able via e-commerce methodologies. This increases transaction fl ow without
increasing transaction costs, which can increase the overall likelihood of a
discovery that leverages the invention, tool, or material.
It is also important to deal with copyrights and data issues in collaboration.
Making the research literature emerging from a project available increases the
impact of the research, but doing so often requires ensuring that the rights
necessary to distribute the articles are reserved at the beginning of a project.
Similarly, data and database rights can differ so much from country to country
that it is easier to reserve rights to distribute internationally via public domain
systems at the beginning of a project rather than at the end.
The use of standard legal and technical systems creates a more even nego-
tiating ground between parties that might otherwise be disadvantaged due to
economics, expertise, or time pressure. These systems can make it easy to
reserve broad rights to the public for socially responsible uses while reserving
the right to negotiate bespoke agreements and licenses for valuable inventions
and discoveries. The emergence of standardized negotiating frameworks is
beginning to transform those bespoke agreements as well. But nothing can
replace the value of a good lawyer, in the end, when there are high stakes such
as those in the life sciences.
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