Counsel for Technology, Entertainment, and Business
A new U.S. president prepares to take office… will his “change” include a new technology policy? French record labels gear up for a fight against open source media sharing software. A European fashion designer tries to enforce a copyright judgment in New York. The judge who shut down Napster proposes a sweeping copyright reform. Craigslist [...]
This past Thursday I gave a talk called “From Pages to Platforms” about the ways that Web 2.0 has affected Internet Law. Here it is in webcast form.
I recommend downloading (instead of allowing it to play in the browser) for a full-screen picture.
On this week’s Singularity Law Podcast, Michael and I briefly discussed some of the conflicts that exist between various copyleft licenses. Since then, I’ve had a few conversations with friends and attorneys (one at a job interview, in fact) in which I’ve detected some significant misunderstandings about the way these licenses relate to each other. [...]
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.1
The plaintiff in this case is the manager of an open source software project whose code was improperly used [...]
Free software1 promotes the study and improvement of computer programming methods.
Free software licenses like the GPL ensure that the whole community of users can benefit whenever an improvement is discovered, not just a few who “discovered it first.”
Open source code can be used to solve absolutely any problem for which it is suited or can [...]
