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36 - Open Views - Vera Franz, OSI
- Artist: Sundar Raman
- Title: Vera Franz, OSI
- Album: Open Views
- Track: 36
- Genre: Interview
- Year: 2007
- Length: 59:32 minutes (54.51 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Vera Franz is Program Manager of the Open Society Institute's Information Program. In this capacity she leads the Open Information and Intellectual Property Reform programs.
The Information Program supports four initiatives which enable access to knowledge in poorer countries: a project on the reform of intellectual property; the eIFL library consortium; the Open Access Initiative, and an East-East translation program.
Vera Franz talked to me about the detailed problem with the current intellectual property/policy regimes around the world and the OSI's strategy for combatting the issues. Her experience monitoring and working with trade organizations such as the WTO and WIPO provides perspective on how the people drafting these regulations and policies deal with Open Source, Free Culture and transparent processes in general.
Vera is clearly very intelligent and has articulated some great ideas for changing some of the fundamental dynamics of rewarding innovation while opening access to intellectual assets. However I think there could be negative ramifications to some of her suggestions. For example there is nothing stopping government from buying patents now. But there are also lots of other potential buyers. The government is not necessarily have our best interests at heart and may well pay a premium for "bad" patents and leave genuine innovators in the cold.
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