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COMMONS MAGAZINE

Buying Respectability

July 23, 2010
Pepsi funds a Yale fellowship to study obesity and diabetes.

Crash Has Little Impact on Free Market Dogma

March 5, 2009

Stealing the Future

January 5, 2009
Thomson Reuters sues an open-source competitor, a bibliographic software tool.

Should Colleges Serve as the RIAA’s Anti-Piracy Enforcers?

May 4, 2007
Should universities crack down on students who download music for free?

The Perils of Property Speak in Academia

November 8, 2006
The rise of copyright protection in universities threatens a rich tradition of collegial cooperation that has brought society many rewards. The case for open-source academia.

The Best Science That Money Can Buy

December 13, 2005
The best science that money can buy. A new scandal about drug companies placing positive articles about their products in respected medical journals.