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Release Notes"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: How do open source
and intellectual property work together? What are the most important
intellectual property-related issues when starting a business or open source
project? How should you handle copyright, licensing and other issues when
accepting a patch from another developer? How can you pursue your own ideas
while working for someone else? What parts of a patent should be reviewed to see
if it applies to your work? When is your idea a trade secret? How can you
reverse engineer a product without getting into trouble? What should you think
about when choosing an open source license for your project? Most legal sources
are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read.Intellectual Propertyand
Open Source is a friendly, easy-to-follow overview of the law that programmers,
system administrators, graphic designers, and many others will find essential.

Table Of Contents

PREFACE
1 THE ECONOMIC AND LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
2 THE PATENT DOCUMENT
3 THE PATENT SYSTEM
4 COPYRIGHT
5 TRADEMARKS
6 TRADE SECRETS
7 CONTRACTS AND LICENSES
8 THE ECONOMIC AND LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
9 SO I HAVE AN IDEA
10 CHOOSING A LICENSE
11 ACCEPTING PATCHES AND CONTRIBUTIONS
12 WORKING WITH THE GPL
13 REVERSE ENGINEERING
14 INCORPORATING AS A NON-PROFIT
A SAMPLE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AGREEMENT (PIA)
A SAMPLE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AGREEMENT (PIA)
B OPEN SOURCE LICENSE LIST
C FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE LIST
D FEDORA LICENSE LIST AND GPL COMPATIBILITY
E PUBLIC DOMAIN DECLARATION
F THE SIMPLIFIED BSD LICENSE
G THE APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0
H THE MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE, VERSION 1.1
I THE GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, VERSION 2.1
J THE GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, VERSION 3
K THE GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, VERSION 2, JUNE 1991
L THE GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, VERSION 3, JUNE 2007
M THE OPEN SOFTWARE LICENSE, VERSION 3.0
INDEX

Product Details

* ISBN: 0596517963
* ISBN-13: 9780596517960
* Format: Paperback, 390pp
* Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
* Pub. Date: July 2008
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