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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... invention (even though some inventors do better than others with that requirement). But just as the code segments in an ELF file will vary between programs, so will the specifications in various patents vary from each other. So, instead ...
... Invention Registrations T1,012, T2,875, T1,843 Defensive publications These specialized types of patents are not as common as utility patents, but they do show up occasionally. The most common type of specialized patent is the design ...
... inventions (as most do—we will get to that later), it must list all inventors for each invention. Each inventor has separate rights to the patent; to “own” a patent, a company must get an agreement from every inventor. The short list of ...
... Invention. Conceiving an invention is more than just “thinking it up.” For example, most of us have “thought up” teleportation. What ... Invention 27 Conception of the Invention Reduction to practice Practical considerations in inventorship.
... invention. Business policies may indicate that outsiders do not qualify as inventors. If you are tempted to cave in ... invention under the direction of the inventor and somebody who actually contributed to the invention itself. A person ...
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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 |