The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) wants countries such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to be placed on the US government's blacklist of copyright sinners for supporting open source software
In yet another attack on open source software usage around the world, a copyright-focused organization is claiming that use of open source software promotes piracy. With a new 498-page report (PDF) that repeatedly defies logic, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) argues that the ...
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According to the IIPA, an umbrella group for organizations like MPAA and RIAA, using open source softwares make you a pirate. Andreas Guadamuz, a lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh, has discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy.
A Gartner analyst has taken issue with the Federal, NSW and Victorian governments for allowing suppliers of bespoke software developed for government contracts to retain the intellectual property in the software, but has been especially critical of the AIIA, the industry body that lobbied to have this policy introduced.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to establish a center that will deal with disputes over intellectual property and online copyright issues, reports Sina Tech (link via Google Translate).
Slated to launch later this year, the center will be part of the MIIT, which made the announcement at a meeting of the Internet Society of China and the Mediation Center o
Hi everyone, I have a problem with my ISP.
I had shared some ISO images of Ubuntu,and the internet provider was very strongly against that, threatening me that he would file a complaint against me if you do not cease to distribute Ubuntu.
I tried to say that Ubuntu is open source and is legal, but they did not understand and can not accept this.
I wrote to the Business Software Alliance, Micros
Sometimes things that are supposedly free for the taking -- such as open source software -- can ultimately cost a wad of dough from the corporate coffers. That could well be the lesson Google learns from a lawsuit Oracle filed last year alleging that Google violated its intellectual property as well as infringed on its copyright for using a variation of Java.
LWN.net: "But in reality the FLOSS ecosystem relies on a complex legal framework in order to run smoothly and to stand up to proprietary software competition: the various software licenses, contribution agreements, copyright and other "intellectual property" law."
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