Legal Analysis: The Legal Risks of Overreaching for Third Party Patent Rights
GPLv3: The Legal Risks of Overreaching for Third Party Patent Rights The FSF has now released the Discussion Draft 3 of GPLv3, adding paragraphs four and five to Section 11 [...]
Yes, you should be worried about the European Commission’s actions
Yahoo!News has an op-ed by Pat Cox in which he points out that “Europe’s Microsoft case goes too far”, with the European Commission in effect declaring “war on accepted international [...]
IMPACT OF TODAY’S COMMISSION PATENT COMMUNICATION ON SMEs
STATEMENT BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today, the European Commission revealed its vision for improving the patent system in Europe, including a proposal for a [...]
Is Richard Stallman a Libertarian? Tim Lee thinks so.
I really need to stop taking weekends off from blogging. Over at Tech Liberation Front, Tim Lee has taken our ongoing discussion on the GPLv3 and started a rather interesting [...]
P2P households’ insatiable appetite for free music
The New York Times reports that while the growth rate for legal music downloading services is far higher than that for illegal ones, “the average peer-to-peer household still downloads far [...]
Bye-bye .xxx
According to the BBC, “[p]lans to create an internet domain specifically for pornographic websites have been rejected.” The BBC’s website states that “[t]he proposal for the .xxx domain was voted [...]