Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg

Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg

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.

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ISBN 13	9780596517960
ISBN 10	0596517963
Title	Intellectual Property and Open Source
Author	Van Lindberg
Series	O'reilly Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Year published	2008-08-19
Number of pages	371
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