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 for the stated purpose of blocking the recent patent cooperation agreement between Novell and Microsoft and other agreements like it, [...]
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 and European conventions regarding intellectual property rights, applying instead its own test (determined by the Directorate General for Competition) of [...]
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 unified EU patent judiciary. Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, said: “Today’s Communication is a long awaited [...]
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 more songs. Peer-to-peer networks yielded five billion downloads in 2006, whereas 509 million songs were downloaded from iTunes-style services.” The [...]
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 out by the overseer of the net's addressing system, seven years after the [idea] was first put forward.” In an [...]