Intellectual Property and Open Source

Van Lindberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

371 Seiten

2008
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-0-596-51796-0 (ISBN)

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Gives developers an understanding of what constitutes intellectual property, complete with advice and a set of principles they can use to pursue open source projects without getting into legal trouble. It aims to place the computer field on a basis for understanding, applying, and debating key concepts in copyrights, trade secrets, and patents.

Headlines about lawsuits and policy battles concerning copyrights and patents burst upon the computer field every week. Programmers, system administrators, graphic designers, and many others in computing realize they need to know more about intellectual property - but the sources of information are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read. Even worse, many people spread misinformation or claim to provide answers by applying flawed analogies. This book, written by a programmer and intellectual property attorney, can place the computer field on a firm basis for understanding, applying, and debating key concepts in copyrights, trade secrets, patents, and trademarks. It also places open source movements in the context of current U.S. law.

Van Lindberg is an attorney who helps people build businesses around ideas. His experience allows him to analyze and evaluate intellectual property in a sale, license or litigation context. Van also participates in the Open Source community. He helps businesses work with and develop Open Source software and helps developers navigate the legal system to achieve project goals. He has direct experience in digital circuit design; operating system design; application programming; networked and distributed systems; virtualization; wireless networking; high-availability systems and programming languages.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.8.2008
Reihe/Serie	O'Reilly Ser.
Verlagsort	Sebastopol
Sprache	englisch
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	0-596-51796-3 / 0596517963
ISBN-13	978-0-596-51796-0 / 9780596517960
Zustand	Neuware