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Free, Open Source Software & the Law

Free Software & the Law

• Software Freedom Law Center
• What’s Patently Wrong about Software Inventions – Interview with Richard M Stallman (PDF)
• Roger Clarke’s Paper on Open Source Licensing
• Current Legal Threats to Free Software
• The Danger of Software Patents – Richard Stallman
• Coding Free Software, Coding Free States – Free Software Legislation in Peru (PDF)
• Patenting Software vs Free Software – What Should the European Union Do? (PDF)
• Software Patents – Myths & Truths – Europarl @ Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure
• Global Agreements on IP Protection and Public Rights & the Public Domain (PDF)
• The Problem with Software Patents –Ray Benjamin
• Legal Issues Relating to Free & Open Source Software (PDF)
• Taking The Case – Is the GPL Enforceable? (PDF)
• Harm from the Hague - RMS
• The European Union “Software Patents Directive” – What, Why & Where are We Now?
• Software Patentability in CEPIS National Members (PDF)
• Results on European Commission Consultation Exercise on Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions (PDF)
• Open Source Software – Open to Liability – Law.com
• The Global Ratchet for Intellectual Property Rights – Why It Fails & What Should be Done about It? (PDF)
• Legal Uncertainty in Free & Open Source Software & the Political Response
• Renaissance of the Commons – How the New Sciences & The Internet are Framing a New Global Identity & Order – Harvard University (PDF) 
• Why Software Should not be Covered by Patents
• Legal Projects by FSF Europe
• Creative Commons
• Intellectual Property & Computer Software (PDF)
• Study on Intellectual Property Rights, the Internet & Copyright (PDF)
• Software Patents – League for Programming Freedom, MIT
• Stopping Software Patents in Europe (PDF)
• Legal Issues Surrounding Free & Open Source Software (PDF)

• Software Freedom Law Center

• Software Freedom – Creation & Danger - explores and explains the framework that creates and protects our freedom to use and work with software.
• Silent Revolutions – How F/OSS Came to Challenge Neoliberal Trends in Intellectual Property Law – Gabriella Coleman (PDF)
• Copyright Reform – the Next Battle for the Media Reform Movement (PDF) – This is in FTP mode.
• Intellectual Property, Computer Software & the Open Source Movement (PDF)
• Anarchism Triumphant – Free Software & the Death of Copyright – Eben Moglen
• Creative Commons – Accessing, Negotiating & Remixing Online Content (PDF)

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