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Intellectual Property - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about intellectual property including intellectual property rights.
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- Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries
- SOPA and PROTECT IP would harm innovation, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 22 November 2011. "Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been created due to the cost of regulatory compliance. Imagine an Internet where any website where users can upload text, pictures or video is liable for copyrighted material uploaded to it. Imagine a world where the addresses to those websites could not be found using search engines like Google and Bing, even if you typed them in directly. Imagine an Internet split into many sections, depending upon where you lived, where a user's request to visit another website was routed through an addressing system that could not be securely authenticated. Imagine a world where a government could require that a website hosting videos of a bloody revolution be taken down because it also hosted clips from a Hollywood movie..."
Added: 24 November 2011;
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- Choosing the right license for open data
- Why OpenStreetMap is moving from Creative Commons to the Open Database License, by Audrey Watters. O'Reilly Radar, 16 June 2011. "You can't copyright a fact. But that doesn't mean that data and databases are exempt from legal discussions and licensing requirements, even if the intention is to share the data openly. Such is the case with the collaborative mapping project OpenStreetMap (OSM). When OpenStreetMap launched, contributions to the project were licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike license. That meant that anyone could copy OSM data, but if it was incorporated into another project, those same terms and conditions applied (ShareAlike) and the copyright owner had to be credited (Attribution). Although this license doesn't appear controversial and seems to fit nicely with the OpenStreetMap mission, there were problems — if for no other reason than the Creative Commons licenses are meant to handle creative works and not data..."
Added: 20 June 2011;
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- Dissecting AIIA's Flawed Position on IP Rights
- by Brian Prentice. Gartner, December 20, 2010. "Two weeks ago, the New South Wales state government became the third government jurisdiction in Australia – along with the federal government and the Victorian state government – to change the intellectual property rights (IPR) provisions of their IT procurement policies so that ICT suppliers would, as a starting position, retain ownership of the IP for software developed under contract..."
Added: 22 December 2010;
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- Government hands IP to software developers
- Software developers get first choice of intellectual property in all ICT procurement negotiations, by James Hutchinson. Computerworld, 5 October, 2010. "The Attorney-General's Department has mandated eligible Federal Government agencies provide software developers and independent software vendors with first rights to intellectual property (IP) for software developed under contract from 1 October..."
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- New Guidelines for Treatment of Government Intellectual Property Rights
- State Services Commission, January 31, 2008. "The State Services Commission New Zealand today released new Cabinet approved Guidelines for Treatment of Intellectual Property Rights in government Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) contracts. These state that the commercialisation of intellectual property resulting from State Services agencies' ICT contracts is best carried out by the commercial sector..."
Added: 31 January 2008;
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- IPR & eGovernment Interoperability in Europe
- European Review of Political Technologies, December 2005. Collection of articles on intellectual property rights and egovernment interoperability in Europe.
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