Who Should Own Science?

A group proposing alternative licenses says patents thwart research; some officials disagree

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Creative Commons is a group that developed an alternative copyright system to make literature, music, films, and scholarship freely available to the public. Now it plans to do the same for scientific and technological research.

The new project, called Science Commons,...

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