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Open, collaborative effort to improve US patents
Late last year, I wrote about the EFF’s project to leverage the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure to promote open 3D printing technology. Here we are, several months later, and the...
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The EFF covers Google's open patent non-assertion pledge
The flood of software patents has created an environment where companies are afraid that innovation leads to being hit by patent lawsuits. Every dollar spent fighting patent trolls and or waging patent...
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Does your code need a license?
Copyright, copyleft, or copy none?The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is concerned that some open source software developers are not choosing a license for their work, so they want to educate software...
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Post open source software, licensing and GitHub
Few would deny that the rise of GitHub as a popular hosting service for software projects is one of the most significant developments to affect open source during the past five years. GitHub's...
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New report: What the Government Accountability Office has to say about...
During the August Congressional recess, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-awaited study on Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), required under the America Invents Act (AIA).The...
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Open source under the lens of an intellectual property lawyer
Download the free All Things Open interview series eBookHave you ever wondered what, from a business perspective, the world of sharing, free, and open source looks like to a lawyer?Challenging!...
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Teach kids about copyright: a list of resources from Creative Commons
Open curriculum alternatives to MPAA’s new anti-piracy campaign for kids.It has come to our attention that the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and...
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Should I use a permissive license? Copyleft? Or something in the middle?
The open source license you choose for your project, or for the projects you choose to contribute to, can have significant effects on how what you contribute is used. One question that has garnered...
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The participatory nature of the Internet strengthens fan communities
Whether the big media producers like it or not, digital technologies have made it easier than ever for popular culture fans to create remixes or derivative works from their favorite movies, TV shows,...
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Copyright statements proliferate inside open source code
Earlier today I was looking at a source file for the OpenStack Ceilometer docs and noticed that there's a copyright statement at the top. Now, in no way do I want to pick on Nicholas. There are...
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