Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]
Entrepreneurial guru Guy Kawasaki pointed last week to Bill Meade's list of the ten things companies can to do re-start their IP program if it hasn't been paid much attention lately. (Not paying attention to your IP?! I won't shake a finger at you and say, "Tsk tsk"... Even if [...]
Maybe because technology moves so quickly now—what some are calling the “ten year century”—we’ve come to anticipate the type of technology and innovations that once you have it, you can’t imagine how you lived life without it. But sometimes the game-changers aren’t wild, new, complicated, ground-breaking technologies like smart phones [...]
The New York Times had a great article in last week's small business section, called "A Small Business Guide to Intellectual Property." The article explores five common fallacies about intellectual property: 1. For small-business owners, it’s not worth the time or effort to secure intellectual property rights. Wrong. 2. Once [...]
Yesterday, Tom Bell posted a piece on the Technology Liberation Front blog entitled, "Unconstitutional Copyrights?". Mr. Bell provided a passage from his upcoming book, Intellectual Privilege: A Libertarian View of Copyright, in which he argues that copyright protection for songs, novels, movies, paintings and sculptures, is unconstitutional because these are [...]