Copyright now possibly mentally unstable?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111230/04095117235/doctors-discover-
copyright-law-cognitive-screening-test-killed-over-infringement-claims.shtml

http://t.co/tdeV9Xir

"the Mini–Mental State Examination (MMSE). A simple 30-item screening test 
that was first published in 1975 basically became a defacto standard that was used 
(and published!) widely."

"In 2000, its authors, [...] began taking steps to enforce their rights, first 
transferring the copyright to MiniMental, a corporation the Folsteins founded, 
and then in 2001 granting a worldwide exclusive license to Psychological 
Assessment Resources (PAR) to publish, distribute, and manage all intellectual 
property rights. [...] The MMSE form is gradually disappearing from textbooks, 
Web sites, and clinical tool kits."

"But then in March 2011, a promising new cognitive screening tool that was to be 
available through "open access," the Sweet 16 -- a 16-item assessment of thinking, 
learning, and memory developed by Harvard's Tamara Fong -- was removed from 
the Internet at the request of PAR in an apparent copyright dispute. The Sweet 16 
includes orientation and three-object recall items, similar to the MMSE's, along 
with a digit-span item. This action, unprecedented for a bedside clinical assessment 
tool, has sent a chill through the academic community"

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