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In short:
In short:


* in our society, there is no way to ''eliminate'' (the right to) commercial usage and profit (or otherwise cancel the power of money): they are granted automatically and cannot be destroyed,<ref>As Pam Chestek put it [https://propertyintangible.com/2020/03/template-15.html This Is Why You Don't Call It "Intellectual Property"], hoping that no new exclusive rights will not be created is like hoping that the sun won't rise tomorrow. You can write it in a contract too, but it won't help much.</ref> so you can only fragment and distribute them as much as possible or needed;
* in our society, there is no way to ''eliminate'' (the right to) commercial usage and profit (or otherwise cancel the power of money): they are granted automatically and cannot be destroyed, so you can only fragment and distribute them as much as possible or needed;
* there are also few legal and technical ways to ensure your work is "owned" forever by its scientific community (i.e. that it stays in the commons), while there are many ways it can become private property of someone to the exclusion of others.
* there are also few legal and technical ways to ensure your work is "owned" forever by its scientific community (i.e. that it stays in the commons), while there are many ways it can become private property of someone to the exclusion of others.


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Some suggestions:
Some suggestions:
* Follow the EFF advice on patents: [https://www.eff.org/reclaim-invention/pledge public interest patent pledge].
* Follow the EFF advice on patents: [https://www.eff.org/reclaim-invention/pledge public interest patent pledge].
* Keep in mind that most journals have a generic name which cannot be trademarked [citation needed].
* Keep in mind that most journals have a generic name which cannot be trademarked [citation needed]
** If your name is not a generic name yet, you might manage to make it one, by doing the opposite of [[w:Generic_trademark#Avoiding_genericization|what every trademark lawyer suggests]] to those who want to keep their trademark. However, there is no certainty of success.
* Ensure any logo or name is public property, or better nobody's property ([https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Logo#Proposal_and_withdrawal_of_trademark_protection example]).
* Ensure any logo or name is public property, or better nobody's property ([https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Logo#Proposal_and_withdrawal_of_trademark_protection example]).


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* [https://wiki.code4lib.org/OSS_Directory Free/libre software]
* [https://wiki.code4lib.org/OSS_Directory Free/libre software]
* Interoperability (e.g. [https://openarchives.org/ OAI and OAI-PMH standards]).
* Interoperability (e.g. [https://openarchives.org/ OAI and OAI-PMH standards]).
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