Van Lindberg

Intellectual Property and Open Source (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide to Protecting Code

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"e;Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"e;-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and SocietyIf 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 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596154677
• Artikelnr.: 53552414

Autorenporträt

The title that best describes Van Lindberg's job is "translator" - translating from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back. He enjoys working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. As an attorney, Van helps people build businesses around ideas. His experience allows him to analyze and evaluate intellectual property in a sale, license or litigation context. Van also participates in the Open Source community. He helps businesses work with and develop Open Source software and helps developers navigate the legal system to achieve project goals. He has direct experience in digital circuit design; operating system design; application programming; networked and distributed systems; virtualization; wireless networking; high-availability systems and programming languages. Outside of the traditional IP areas, Van is particularly interested in the Open Source licensing model. He has been involved (mostly as a user, but with occasional contributions) in the Open Source community since 1994. Van's favorite computer language is Python.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
What This Book Is...and Is Not
How to Read This Book
The Rest of This Book
Appendixes
Safari® Books Online
Acknowledgments and Disclaimers
Chapter 1: The Economic and Legal Foundations of Intellectual Property
1.1 Law and Code
1.2 The Types of Intellectual Property
1.3 Intellectual Property and Market Failure
1.4 Evaluating the System
Chapter 2: The Patent Document
2.1 The Construction of a Patent
2.2 The Face of the Patent
2.3 Conception of the Invention
2.4 The Body of the Patent
2.5 The Claims
2.6 Other Resources
Chapter 3: The Patent System
3.1 The Patent System As a Knowledge Cache
3.2 Requirements for Getting a Patent
3.3 Getting a Patent
3.4 Patent Proliferation
Chapter 4: Copyright
4.1 Copyright in Context
4.2 The Terms of Copyright
4.3 The Copyright Term
4.4 Owning a Copyright
4.5 The Rights Granted by Copyright
Chapter 5: Trademarks
5.1 Trademarks Defined
5.2 The Economic Function of Trademarks
5.3 Modern Trademark Law in the United States
Chapter 6: Trade Secrets
6.1 Trade Secrets Defined
6.2 The Flaming Moe: The Life and Death of a Trade Secret
6.3 Trade Secrets and Software Development
6.4 Trade Secrets, Businesses, and Consultants
Chapter 7: Contracts and Licenses
7.1 Licenses and Firewalls
7.2 Why Contracts and Licenses Matter
7.3 Contract Law Principles
7.4 Intellectual Property Contracts
7.5 Applying a License to Intellectual Property
Chapter 8: The Economic and Legal Foundations of Open Source Software
8.1 A Brief Digression into Terminology
8.2 Understanding Open Source
8.3 Credit Unions and Open Source: An Analogy
8.4 The Role of Open Source Licenses
8.5 The Open Source Definition
8.6 Different Types of Open Source Licenses
Chapter 9: So I Have an Idea...
9.1 Cautionary Tales
9.2 Employees and Inventions
9.3 Look At What You Sign
9.4 The Employer-Employee Relationship
9.5 Tell the Company
9.6 What Do You Do?
Chapter 10: Choosing a License
10.1 Why Do I Need a License?
10.2 No License Required
10.3 Proprietary Commercial Licensing
10.4 Open Source Licensing
10.5 Why You Should Not Write Your Own License
10.6 Choosing an Open Source License
Chapter 11: Accepting Patches and Contributions
11.1 Back to (Copyright) Basics
11.2 Three Solutions
11.3 Administrative Issues
Chapter 12: Working with the GPL
12.1 Daily Life with the GPL
12.2 Understanding the Terms of the Debate
12.3 Linking and Licensing
12.4 Copyright Confusion
12.5 Thinking About Derivative Works
12.6 Questions and Answers
Chapter 13: Reverse Engineering
13.1 Storming the Castle
13.2 A Sample Reverse Engineering Procedure
13.3 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Chapter 14: Incorporating As a Non-Profit
14.1 Why Incorporate Your Project?
14.2 Creating a Non-Profit Entity
14.3 Operating a Non-Profit Organization
14.4 Umbrella Organizations As an Alternative
Sample Proprietary Information Agreement (PIA)
Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment Agreement
Open Source License List
Open Source Licenses
Free Software License List
Free Software Licenses
Fedora License List and GPL Compatibility
Licenses Approved for Use with Fedora
GPL Compatibility Matrix
Public Domain Declaration
The Simplified BSD License
The BSD License
The Apache License, Version 2.0
The Mozilla Public License, Version 1.1
1. Definitions
2. Source Code License
3. Distribution Obligations
4. Inability to Comply Due to Statute or Regulation
5. Application of this License
6. Versions of the License
7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
8. Termination
9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
10. U.S. Government End Users
11. MISCELLANEOUS
12. Responsibility for Claims
14. Multiple-Licensed Code
Applying the Mozilla Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 2.1
The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 3
The GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991
The GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2
The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007
The GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 3
The Open Software License, Version 3.0
The Open Software License (OSL), Version 3.0
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Rezensionen

"Insgesamt ist dies also ein lobenswertes Werk, das einen guten Überblick gibt und zugleich die Sprache des Lesers (gemeint ist der juristische Laie, der Wissenschaftler) spricht. Mit vielen Beispielen aus der Software-Praxis verdeutlicht Lindberg seine Ausführungen, um den Lesern das Verständnis zu erleichtern." -- IP Notiz, September 2009