Some interesting response during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Open COVID Pledge

Open Science against Covid-19

New developments in Open Science against Covid-19 as the Creative Commons put it: Be safe, be smart, and be kind to one another.

CC Open COVID Pledge: Creative Commons has joined forces with other legal experts and leading scientists to offer a simple way for universities, companies, and other holders of intellectual property (IP) rights to support the development of medicines, test kits, vaccines, and other scientific discoveries related to COVID-19 for the duration of the pandemic. The Open COVID Pledge grants the public free, temporary access to IP rights in support of solving the COVID-19 crisis, removing unnecessary obstacles to dissemination of the knowledge and inventions that could save lives and limit suffering.