Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Does a software developer waive his right to sue for copyright infringement by releasing his code under an open source license? This is the question to which the appellate court answered "no" today in Jacobsen v. Katzer. ((Full text available at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf.))
The plaintiff in this case is the manager of an ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The Internet has created interesting copyright law questions for many different kinds of media, from the photographs in Kelly v. Arriba Soft to the audio recordings in A&M Records v. Napster. Typically these cases turn on whether the defendant--typically the trailblazing operator of some new Internet-based service--has distributed the plaintiff's copyrighted ...
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