By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch
BERLIN - A debate is ongoing between “open source”
(OS) software developers and devotees to Creative
Commons licenses over the right way to promote
free culture. Creative Commons licenses, under
which some rights are reserved, are too
restrictive for some in the OS community.
“When I look at the free culture movement I am
very worried,” said Debian programmer and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lab
researcher Benjamin Mako Hill at the
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen
Speculation since May about who will lead the
secretariat in a new intergovernmental working
group on intellectual property and public health
at the World Health Organization may now be put to
rest as it is official that the post will go to
Howard Zucker, WHO sources say.
Zucker is the assistant director general for
health technology and pharmaceuticals at the WHO,
and he will remain in this position in the future,
according to a WHO spokesperson. He joined the WHO
in January 2006 from the United States Department
of Health and Human Services (HH