a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright.
copies of the licenses approved by OSI. If you distribute your software under one of these licenses, you are permitted to say that your software is "OSI Certified Open Source Software."
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.
By Pieter Hintjens - That simple question stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents.
This is a list of all the labels that associate themselves with the RIAA. If you are interested in boycotting the RIAA (as many people are) use this list to avoid purchasing music from these labels.
Copyright was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks... talk by Richard M. Stallman
The Campaign to Eliminate DRM. There is no more important cause for electronic freedoms and privacy than the call for action to stop DRM from crippling our digital future.
verbatim transcript of the talk Richard Stallman (RMS) gave to the Libre Software and the Law stream on Friday 7th July 2000 in the University of Bordeaux.
A creator forewarned is a creator forearmed. This site is devoted to all authors and creators of works in the United States. It aims to make clear why you might want to keep your copyrights, and to provide information both to help you hold on to your righ
by Scott Aaronson. I have an ingenious idea for a company... My company will be the one that packages ... in 25-cent cardboard boxes, then resells the boxes for up to $300 apiece.