The edition of The Economist on the newstands (Oct. 22 – 28, 2005) has an extensive section — 18 pp. of the print version — on patents and technology, written by Kenneth Cukier. Must-reading for anyone interested in the future of information technologies, open source, licensing, and intellectual property law. Cukier tracks the growth of … Read more
Lawsuit filed today on the Google libraries project, with extraordinary counsel (no doubt) on both sides. The publishers assert copyright violation by Google for re-publishing digital versions of their copyrighted works that are kept in libraries such as the University of Michigan’s.
CC needs you to donate — and not just your time, this time. Jamie Boyle writes: “We have had incredible success, both in the number of our licenses being used (Yahoo reports 50 million link backs, though that is an imprecise measure ) and in the quality and importance of the material licensed. (From MIT’s … Read more
On Wednesday night, HLS feted Prof. William W. (“Terry”) Fisher III as he received the Hale and Dorr Intellectual Property chair. It was an exceptional event: a standing-room-only crowd in Austin East and a lecture, prompted by Dean Elena Kagan’s inauguration of a new-to-HLS-but-nonetheless-venerable tradition, on the state of the field of the freshly-chaired professor. The … Read more