Takedown or copyright dispute icon with question mark on orange background illustrating intellectual property issues in music. You are most likely familiar with the ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin now backs open-source licenses, arguing they better promote open innovation as crypto becomes more “competitive and mercenary.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin ...

Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license.… In doing so, he may ...

On the final day of LinuxCon Europe 2015, HP's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink delivered a bold keynote about software licensing. Fink recapped the negative effects of license proliferation and ...

Law360, London (December 11, 2023, 12:33 PM GMT) -- There has been a lot of talk, and a lot of litigation, about how copyright might affect artificial intelligence and its users. The lawsuit filed in ...

There is an ongoing shift toward open-source licenses that are more permissive, reflecting an increased emphasis on building communities rather than protecting against free-riders. There’s no such ...

In July 2012, Richard Fontana started the GPL.next project to experiment with modifications to version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). The name was quickly changed to the more neutral ...

From 2012 to 2021, there appears to be a trend towards open source creators choosing the permissive route when it comes to open source licenses throughout the world. In 2012, only ** percent of open ...

No one would confuse cyber-lawyer Lawrence Lessig with Homer Simpson – symbol for all that is dumb about America. But Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent a ...