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Tangled in Legal

11-12-2009 by No Comments

The (business) world is looking for protection of ideas: patents, copyright, trade marks, licenses, rights management — legal instruments pretending to preserve the opportunity of exploitation to the original inventor, author, creator, giving them the opportunity to sue anybody taking — stealing! — intellectual property and turning it profitably into a business. Is that how [...]

Registries and the Public Domain

01-10-2009 by No Comments

How can a potential user determine if a work is actually in the public domain? What involves substantial detective work could become an easy task in the future, if some of the initiatives on certification and registration of works will come to fruition. A session at the 2008 Communia Workshop in Amsterdam discussed the need [...]

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