Theses on Intellectual Ownership, Open Science, and the Social Responsibility of Research.

This manifesto articulates a normative and ethical framework for understanding intellectual ownership, open science, and the social responsibility of research in the contemporary knowledge economy. It argues that the privatization of knowledge and the institutionalization of delayed dissemination have transformed scientific production into a system of exclusion, enclosure, and epistemic inequality. Against this model, the text defends science as a public good and knowledge as a collective social product rather than a proprietary commodity. Drawing on ethical reflection, institutional critique, and lived academic experience, the manifesto examines how copyright regimes, prestige hierarchies, and publication systems function as mechanisms of knowledge control, producing delays in truth, restrictions on access, and asymmetries of power. It advances open science not merely as a technical publishing model but as a moral and social obligation, grounded in the responsibility of researchers to society. The manifesto calls for preprint dissemination, resistance to knowledge enclosure, and the reassertion of science as a common good, proposing an ethics of research based on transparency, accessibility, epistemic justice, and collective responsibility.