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What Intellectual Property Law Should Learn from Software

A new article of mine just came out in the Communications of the ACM.  An alert reader notified me that the article is behind a paywall — not available to those without subscriptions.  Luckily, Communications is a fine humane publication and agreed to let me keep copyright in the article.  Here it is..  My thanks to the editors of Communications and particularly to Moshe Vardi › Continue reading

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 free software, patents, science, software 3 Comments

CC By(e Bye)

(Reader Attention Conservation Warning…This is a self-indulgent post, written as a diary entry as much as anything else…  If you want to know what Creative Commons is, you can read this.) Tomorrow I finish my year’s term as Creative Commons Board Chair and step down from the board… › Continue reading

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Creative Commons, Science Commons, science 5 Comments

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  • Update — FT article full text

    Some of you report difficulties getting access to my FT piece. Thankfully, the FT agrees to let me keep copyright in my articles  

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    My new Financial Times column on the Obama Administration’s copyright policy just came out.. 

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