The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plant germplasm.

The laws to secure intellectual property rights on plant germplasm have been strongly developed in parallel to the ongoing seed market consolidation. Germplasm as a commons, i.e., a natural resource accessible to all members of a society, receives almost no legal protection. On the other hand, the u...

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Main Authors: Johannes Kotschi, Bernd Horneburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-10-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6198939?pdf=render