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Open Source Under The Lens Of An Intellectual Property Lawyer

Jen Wike | opensource.com | September 12, 2013

Have you ever wondered what, from a business perspective, the world of sharing, free, and open source looks like to a lawyer? Challenging! Chaotic? Creative... Read More »

10 Industries 3D Printing Will Disrupt Or Decimate

Lyndsey Gilpin | TechRepublic | February 12, 2014

As it evolves, 3D printing technology is destined to transform almost every major industry and change the way we live, work, and play in the future.  For better or worse, the 3D printing industry is poised to transform nearly every sector of our lives and jumpstart the next industrial revolution.

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7 Patent Reforms The White House Should Have Proposed

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | June 7, 2013

The president's follow-up to his frank condemnation of patent trolls is welcome, but we need more Read More »

Court Hands Huge Victory To Universities' Digitization Efforts

Rebecca J. Rosen | Atlantic | October 11, 2012

Universities can proceed with their efforts to scan books, not just because of the ability to search, but because of the huge benefits to blind students. Read More »

Dutch Libraries Go To Court To Make Sure They Can Lend Ebooks

Glyn Moody | Techdirt | July 9, 2013

As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be made harder for people to access literature in these places if it's in a digital form. Read More »

How The Copyright Hub Wants To Bring Licensing Up To Date

Alastair Reid | journalism.co.uk | July 8, 2013

A non-profit organisation, launched today, will act as a resource, portal and forum for all those involved in copyright to assist with the process of licensing Read More »

How To Choose Your Open Source Hardware License

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | August 8, 2013

It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public... Read More »

Lawyer: Buyers Have The Right To Resell Copyright-Protected Works

Grant Gross | TechHive | October 29, 2012

U.S. residents who buy products protected by copyright shouldn’t have to worry about where those products were manufactured before reselling them, a lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court Monday. Read More »

Pols To Ad Networks: Pretend We Passed SOPA, And Never Mind About Violating Antitrust Law

Mitch Stoltz | Electronic Frontier Foundation | May 8, 2014

A group of United States Senators and Representatives is asking Internet advertising networks to create a blacklist of alleged "piracy sites" and refuse to serve ads to those sites. If this idea sounds familiar, that's probably because it was an integral part of the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, legislation that was stopped in its tracks two years ago after a massive protest by Internet users...

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Publishing And The POOC, Or, Why We Need Open Access

Polly Thistlethwaite | Just Publics @ 365 | February 17, 2013

Isn’t everything up on the internet for free? Yes, most new books and articles appear in digital format, but NO-O-O they’re not (yet) mostly free. Libraries pay big bucks to license them, and the licenses require libraries to restrict access to narrow audiences (students, faculty, or people physically inside the library). Read More »

Since Copyright Is So Handy For Censorship, It's Tempting To Use It To Censor Lots Of Content

Mike Masnick | TechDirt | September 15, 2014

Matt Schruers, over at the Disruptive Competition Project blog has a great post discussing the harm of the increasing pressure to abuse intellectual property law to do a variety of things that it was clearly never intended for. He calls this intellectual property's "immigration" challenge, noting that these uses have "at best, a tenuous relationship to 'promot[ing]... Progress.'"...

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The Law That Gave Us The Modern Internet—And The Campaign To Kill It

Derek Khanna | The Atlantic | September 12, 2013

Ever heard of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? It gave birth to the social web. Here's why we need more laws just like it. Read More »

White House Petition On Cellphone Unlocking Receives Over 100,000 Signatures

Derek Khanna | Forbes | February 25, 2013

At 7:37 AM EST on February 21, 2013, a White House petition on cellphone unlocking went over the 100,000 signature threshold on the White House’s “We the People” website.  This was the threshold for a White House response.  Now they will will wait to hear from the White House. How did we get here and what is cellphone unlocking? Read More »

“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”

K McGowan | Backchannel | February 11, 2016

At age 33, Marie Moe learned that her heart might fail her at any moment. A computer security expert in Norway, she found out she has a fairly common heart condition that disrupts her normal pulse, so she had to get a pacemaker. The surgery was quick and uncomplicated. Just a few weeks later she was able to travel to London for a course on ethical hacking...

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