Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2008. gada 15. jūl. - 386 lappuses "Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter. 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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... Granted by Copyright TRADEMARKS Trademarks Defined The Economic Function of Trademarks Modern Trademark Law in the United States TRADE SECRETS Trade Secrets Defined The Flaming Moe: The Life and Death of a Trade Secret Trade Secrets and ...
... granted the ability to prevent anyone else from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the invention. Patents last for a maximum of about 20 years, after which the invention becomes part of the public domain. During its ...
... granted for a limited period. Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution makes this bargain explicit: “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive ...
... granted under IP law are sometimes called negative rights, which are actually the rights to prevent other people from taking a particular action. In other words, the most consistent effect of the IP laws is to make some piece of ...
... a series of sentences describing the bounds of legal protection granted by the patent. The similarities are illustrated in Figure 2-1. ELF Binary Format 22 CHA PTE R 2 : T HE PA TENT DOC UME NT The Construction of a Patent.
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Chapter 4 Copyright | 71 |
Chapter 5 Trademarks | 103 |
Chapter 6 Trade Secrets | 119 |
Chapter 7 Contracts and Licenses | 133 |
Chapter 8 The Economic and Legal Foundations of Open Source Software | 153 |
Appendix B Open Source License List | 281 |
Appendix C Free Software License List | 285 |
Appendix D Fedora License List and GPL Compatibility | 289 |
Appendix E Public Domain Declaration | 299 |
Appendix F The Simplified BSD License | 301 |
Appendix G The Apache License Version 20 | 303 |
Appendix H The Mozilla Public License Version 11 | 309 |
Appendix I The GNU Lesser General Public License Version 21 | 319 |
Chapter 9 So I Have an Idea | 179 |
Chapter 10 Choosing a License | 197 |
Chapter 11 Accepting Patches and Contributions | 215 |
Chapter 12 Working with the GPL | 223 |
Chapter 13 Reverse Engineering | 239 |
Chapter 14 Incorporating As a NonProfit | 253 |
Appendix A Sample Proprietary Information Agreement PIA | 271 |
Appendix J The GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 | 329 |
Appendix K The GNU General Public License Version 2 June 1991 | 333 |
Appendix L The GNU General Public License Version 3 June 2007 | 341 |
Appendix M The Open Software License Version 30 | 355 |
Index | 359 |
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Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code Van Lindberg Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2008 |