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Nature 432, 137 (11 November 2004) | doi:10.1038/432137a; Published online 10 November 2004

Creative Commons ponders share options

Paula Gould

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Alternative licensing scheme for scientists set to launch.

A not-for-profit organization is preparing to launch a form of science licensing that it says will give researchers more flexibility when they publish and share data.The project, called Science Commons, has grown out of the Creative Commons movement, a scheme devised by Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School, California, to promote the online publishing of audio, visual and textual materials with "some rights reserved".