On the Margins of Creative Commons and OpenCopyright piracy, hacking vaccine science, and, if you're Cuba, offering your vaccines to the world in exchange for food: this is a sample of what lies just outside the movement for openness. What does Creative Commons gain from allying with forces that achieve the same goals, but don't use the same means?
Achal Prabhala is a Shuttleworth Fellow and coordinator of the
AccessIBSA, a project set up to expand access and speed up the discovery of new drugs in India, Brazil and South Africa.