Here’s a post from Random Acts Of Reality, a blog based in London, England, written by an E.M.T working for the London Ambulance Service.
In Health Copyright, he writes of getting some training and being bulloxed by a less-than-OSER attitude:
However there is a problem – the Guidelines book we should be getting is version 3.0, but the book we are actually getting is version 2.2.
The reason for this? Copyright. It seems that the London Ambulance Service wants to change a few bits to make it more relevant to London. But because the organization that wrote it maintains the copyright – it can’t be changed for us. Lawrence Lessing’s “Free culture” and the Suw Charman article I linked to on the 25th both state that you get value added when others can build on your work. This is a perfect example of this principle.
So the people of London are not getting the best clinical care because of copyright.