Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open source development and the GPL. This book answers questions such as:. Most legal sources are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read. Intellectual Property and Open Source is a friendly, easy-to-follow overview of the law that programmers, system administrators, graphic designers, and many others will find essential.
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Skip to main content. Start your free trial. Buy on Amazon. Book description "Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers! This book answers questions such as: How do open source and intellectual property work together? What are the most important intellectual property-related issues when starting a business or open source project? How should you handle copyright, licensing and other issues when accepting a patch from another developer?
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Show and hide more. IP and the First Amendment. I think it would be difficult for students to conceptualize some of this material before they have a firm understanding of trademark, copyright, and patent law.
I reviewed, edited, and supplemented the original CB text for my own purposes. I used the Word version from the author's site. First, the pagination at the bottom was a little difficult because each section is set to start on a specific page rather than to continue from the prior section.
Easy to fix. Second, there is a lovely logo at the top of each chapter and each case. It is a good marker to let the students know that they are moving on.
Unfortunately and perhaps due to my editing, a few of those markers overlapped a bit with the casename that should be below it. Again, an easy fix by adding a couple of lines - and a small problem given the number of markers used throughout the document.
On the whole, a good experience. Although I will be more sure after using the CB, I did not note any grammatical errors in my initial review.
IP often incorporates cultural references and issues of the moment. From my initial review, I did not detect any culturally insensitive or offensive CB material with one necessary exception. There is potentially offensive material in the trademark section because of the law in this field and the trademarks sought by various US entities or people.
The CB authors neither shy away from it nor exploit it in any particularly offensive manner - the cases used are most of the important cases. I am aware that there is a similar issue with a bit of one copyright case - same comment re the CB handling. This book presents as an introduction but takes a fairly deep dive into the theories and practices associated with intellectual property. Readers are guided via expository text, supplementary readings, case studies, problem exploration, and role Readers are guided via expository text, supplementary readings, case studies, problem exploration, and role playing through an investigation of how and why our intellectual property practices have evolved.
The book appears to have been last updated in ; however, given its foundation in theory, readers gain a broad understanding of the principles rather than acquaintance with a checklist of copyright rules. The text is dense, but readable for the intentional scholar. It is not written in highly academic prose, but the content does require attentive, close reading.
The authors have optimized the potential modularity of the book. Chapter titles clearly state the topic, and within each chapter are several page descriptively titled sub-sections,.
The text is well organized. A broad introduction is shared at the beginning, the reader works through historic and contemporary issues relevant to the study, and the book concludes with a discussion challenging readers to form their own opinions regarding the role of intellectual copyright in innovative societies. The book is available as a PDF download. Throughout the text, the authors cite instances relating the practice of intellectual copyright to events of recent memory, inviting readers to construct their own understanding of the topics under discussion and relate that understanding to current day practices.
We can do that. There are also lots of people outside of law school, or outside this country, who would like to know more about American law—just as there are people outside of computer science who want to know about artificial intelligence.
Free is a good price-point for them. Customizable is a good form. This book is merely a beta-test version, but it is an example of what can be done. It is available in two ways. First, the entire book can be downloaded for free or download individual chapters in a variety of formats. No digital rights management. No codes. No expiring permissions. Second, a low cost but high quality paperback version is available at a reasonable price. We also hope both of these options are useful for those who might want to use the books outside the law school setting or outside the United States.
Those who do not want, or cannot afford, to pay that price can use the free digital versions. We hope so. We hope it will provide a pleasant, restorative, competitive pressure on the commercial publishers to lower their prices and improve their digital access norms.
We have heard from several colleagues, both those who ban laptops in class and those who do not, that an environmentally friendly alternative to printing out statutes and throwing them away would be desirable, particularly one that came with first sale rights and cost less than the comparable course-packet from the law school's photocopying center.
No DRM! It requires attribution, permits any non commercial use and tells those who modify that they must share the freedoms they were given. After that? It is free to download. Free to copy. Free to modify. The statutory supplement is under a CC: BY license, allowing unlimited reproduction and modification, including for commercial purposes. If you can undercut our commercial price on the statutes, go right ahead!
We'd be delighted! Of course, the underlying statutes and treaties are in the public domain. You can use those without any restrictions. But if you want our preface, chart and editorial comments, you have at least to give attribution. PDF , print , and many other formats and modular versions. On the contrary. In fact, one of the things we have learned in this process is how poorly both authors and students are being treated by the current system.
The authors of casebooks and statutory supplements are generally. All the disadvantages of profiteering with none of the advantages!
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