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Electronic devices under threat from a new class of attack
According to InfoWorld, “[a] security researcher at Juniper Networks says he plans to demonstrate a new class of attack that can be used to [...]
GPLv3 : Welcome to Contract Law
As the tech and business community try to read the tea leaves behind various groups being left out (Apache) and those who just squeezed [...]
Europe’s SMEs are hoping that the patent system will get simplified
The Financial Times reports that “[d]efending intellectual property in the EU may get cheaper, quicker and more efficient under plans to streamline the patent [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]