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Top 10 articles celebrating Creative Commons' very uncommon last 10 years
To a lot of people all over the world, Creative Commons is more than a license. The organization and their mission is a shining copyleft-light for work rendered by artists, designers, writers, and the...
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What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons
The arrival of the ten-year anniversary of Creative Commons is an opportunity to express gratitude to an organization that has done so much to promote the sharing of cultural works and to challenge...
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Should Instagram automatically license photos under Creative Commons?
Should Instagram automatically publish photos under Creative Commons?Yes55.7% (39 votes)No30% (21 votes)Maybe (Discuss in comments)14.3% (10 votes)Instagram has undergone several big changes lately,...
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Open source hardware relies on Creative Commons and crowdfunding
When talking about open source, many people's first thought is the GNU General Public License (GPL). While the software world has been revolutionised by GPL, the hardware world has seen little change....
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Software patents: The talk of 2012
Looking back over the law channel posts of 2012, I was not surprised to see that software patents were a major concern. The high volume of significant patent lawsuits of competitors and rising levels...
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Abolishing patents: Too soon or too late?
"Patents are here to stay." This is the sort of statement that makes me uneasy. I guess in the 17th century the common wisdom was "slavery is here to stay." In the 18th century giving voting rights to...
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Top 10 FOSS issues of 2012
The year 2012 had many important FOSS legal developments which reflects the continued increase in FOSS use. FOSS projects have increased from 600,000 in 2010 to 900,000 by December 2012. In addition, a...
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Which open source software license should I use?
I’ve recently been involved in several discussions that are variations on, "Which open source or free software license should I choose for my project?" Here is my way of looking at the large and...
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Younger developers reject licensing, risk chance for reform
Modern copyright law grants copyright automatically to any creative work, including simple things like blog posts – and small pieces of code on github. This default copyright creates an assumption that...
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Group remixes a copyrighted song to spread open technology
David Mason (@dcm) and Heather LaGarde (@heatherlagarde) were interested in expressing open source in other ways and wanted to help spread mobile and open technologies across developing worlds at...
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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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