Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source | Linux Today

Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
Sep 30, 2008

“The copyright chapter is a reasonably thorough treatment of the
subject which notes how the scope of copyright has expanded over
the years. The current situation is compared to an “allow by
default” security policy where anything which can be said to have
an expressive aspect gets copyright protection by default.
Derivative works are discussed at length…”

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JC

Jonathan Corbet

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