• A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects - Software Freedom Law Center
  Our intended audience for this Primer is any person interested in a basic understanding of the legal issues that impact FOSS development and distribution.
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• Apple - Thoughts on Music
  Apple - Thoughts on Music (tags: music, apple, copyright, technology, law)
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• Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under "gluttonous" PRO-IP Act
  The industries pushing it (music, especially) have an "unslakable lust for more and more rights, longer terms of protection, draconian criminal provisions, and civil damages that bear no resemblance to the damages suffered,"
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• End Software Patents: An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case
  "In our brief, the End Software Patents project supports the Supreme Court's long-held position that computer software should not be patentable, and has highlighted to the Court the real economic harm software patents cause the US economy."
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• Gallery of CSS Descramblers
  If code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed under the DMCA, as Judge Kaplan asserts in his preliminary ruling, but a textual description of the same algorithm may not be suppressed, then where exactly should the line be drawn?
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• Globalisation Institute - Unbundling Microsoft Windows
  The Institute argues that cheaper competitors are unable to benefit from their lower cost because consumers have already been forced to buy Windows. Windows’ dominant position both has slowed technical improvements and prevented new alternatives entering from the marketplace.
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• How Can We Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
  What's the best way for the state to execute a prisoner who has been condemned to death? --- We seem to be all out of options here. Well, there is another possibility, one so obvious that I almost hesitate to suggest it. Maybe the United States should rejoin civilization and just abolish capital punishment altogether.
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• Info 205 Information Law and Policy (Three Day Delay)
  Law is one of a number of policies that mediates the tension between free flow and restrictions on the flow of information. This course introduces students to copyright and other forms of legal protection for databases, licensing of information, consumer protection, liability for insecure systems and defective information, privacy, and national and international information policy.
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• ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words (an eBook in Process)
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• ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words (an eBook in Process)
  ODF is the first IT standard to be taken up as a popular cause, and also represents the first "cross over" standards issue that has attracted the broad support of the open source community. Then there are the societal dimensions: open formats are needed to safeguard our culture and our history from oblivion. And when implemented in open source software and deployed on Linux-based systems (not to mention One Laptop Per Child computers), the benefits and opportunities of IT become more available to those throughout the third world.
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• Oikeuden edessä» Blog Archive » Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”
  In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of “effective technological measures”.
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• Pharmalicensing.com: biopharma partnering and business intelligence
  Pharmalicensing.com: biopharma partnering and business intelligence (tags: information, law, licensing, medicine)
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• restricting growth: I want to sing to myself.
  If I wrote a song myself and recorded it onto CD I am forbidden from playing that CD in public, without written permission from me to play it so. The written permission must be from the publisher. Do you see a pattern here? Is the producer (not publisher, this is the singer, author or actor) indentured, and the customer ignored.
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• Schneier on Security: The War on the Unexpected
  We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.
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• Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine | Free Software Magazine
  How does License Proliferation effect medical software and what can we do about it? How to choose a license for your medical software project? What are the implications for the medical FOSS community of various software licenses? This is intended to be a complete guide to free and open source software licensing for medical software.
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• Suodatuslista sisällön kera
  Keskusrikospoliisin lapsipornon suodatuslista internet-operaattoreille. Listalla on 1047 sivua, joista 9 sisältää varmuudella lapsipornoa. Näistä vain yksi on hostaava sivusto.
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• TED | Talks | Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics (video)
  Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for
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• The Small Print Project
  The Small Print Project (tags: law, fun, software, licensing)
  A collaborative document of experiences with agreements in the digital age as they are designed and encountered
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• Undoing Bush: how to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect - Harper's Magazine
  The Constitution by David Cole - The courts by Dahlia Lithwick - Civil service by Ken Silverstein - The environment by Bill McKibben - Science by Chris (Chris C.) Mooney - The economy by Dean Baker - The marketplace of ideas by Jack Hitt - Intelligence by James Bamford - The military by Edward Luttwak - Diplomacy by Anne-Marie Slaughter - The national character by Earl Shorris
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• When Your Personal Life Is Your Business, Is Everything a Tax Write-off?
  In an age when bloggers and podcasters are making a living -- or trying to -- by blogging and podcasting about their personal lives, what exactly is legitimate? And if writing off your personal life is as easy as writing about it online and getting some G
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