Eve Gray examines what the IPR Bill means for universities. As the Bill is currently worded it will likely delay all scholarly publications even longer than they are currently delayed, as researcher lose control of their work to not one but two bureaucratic offices, one in the university (or national research council) and yet another central one.
Researchers, and this includes students, will not be legally entitled to submit their work to Open Access journals or archives until they’ve been screened by those two offices, and not at all where their work is found to be related to a patent.
