The software license unveiled : how legislation by license controls software access
Nearly every use of a computer is subject not only to public intellectual property law, but also to the privately-written law of the software license. Although the United States has only one Copyright Act and one set of patent laws, there exist thousands of different licenses - to which millions of...
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Oxford University Press
2009
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| Abstract | Nearly every use of a computer is subject not only to public intellectual property law, but also to the privately-written law of the software license. Although the United States has only one Copyright Act and one set of patent laws, there exist thousands of different licenses - to which millions of computer users legally bind themselves by the click of a mouse, usually without reading anything but the word "agree." How do these proliferating but largely unread licenses affect access to software, one of the economy's most valuable resources? In The Software License Unveiled, visionary practitioner Doug Phillips aims to illuminate the unseen law of software to which the software license gives rise. |
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| AbstractList | Nearly every use of a computer is subject not only to public intellectual property law, but also to the privately-written law of the software license. Although the United States has only one Copyright Act and one set of patent laws, there exist thousands of different licenses - to which millions of computer users legally bind themselves by the click of a mouse, usually without reading anything but the word "agree." How do these proliferating but largely unread licenses affect access to software, one of the economy's most valuable resources? In The Software License Unveiled, visionary practitioner Doug Phillips aims to illuminate the unseen law of software to which the software license gives rise. Millions of computer users regularly bind themselves to software license terms with the click of a mouse, usually without reading anything but the word "agree." Licenses for software as diverse as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and terms of use for websites such as Facebook, are all subject not only to intellectual property and commercial law, but also to the private law of the license, which comes in many forms, each with its advocates. Microsoft, for example, maintains that its proprietary model gives users the rights they need while creating the incentives that have made the United States the global software leader, while Richard Stallman - creator of the GNU General Public License and author of a number of free software programs - asserts that proprietary licensing enables software companies to "hoard" software they should be sharing. In The Software License Unveiled, Douglas Phillips looks at both of these extremes and questions how these proliferating but largely unread license terms affect access to software, one of the economy's most valuable resources. While highlighting the obvious divergences, he makes the more illuminating case that most current models - spanning the spectrum from proprietary to free - have one key feature in common: to an increasing extent, each license model extends, modifies, or displaces public law that would otherwise apply. Unlike books that advocate one form of licensing or another, this one reframes the debate to propose that going forward a key challenge for lawyers, scholars, policymakers, and the public is to consider whether "legislation by license" should be the means for controlling software access. |
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| TableOfContents | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Sacrament of the Software License -- PART I: The Proprietary Software License in Law and Practice -- 1 Emergence of the Legislative License -- 1.1 Licensed, Not Sold -- 1.2 Contract-Forming Terms -- 1.3 What You May and May Not Do -- 1.4 Comply or Forfeit -- 1.5 Enabling DRM -- 1.6 Licensor Exculpation -- 1.7 Dispute Resolution -- 1.8 Adware and Spyware -- 1.9 And Th at's Not All -- 2 The Product Is the Product -- 2.1 What Is Intangible Property? -- 2.2 What Is Software? -- 2.3 Rivalry and Excludability -- 2.4 No Ghost in the Machine -- 2.5 Software as a Service -- 2.6 Implications of Tangibility -- 3 Very Long Text: The Reality of the EULA -- 3.1 Software License Readability -- 3.2 Software License Efficiency -- 3.3 Effects of Information Asymmetry -- 3.4 Does the Internet Come to the Rescue? -- 3.5 Common Standards and Implicit Legal Knowledge -- 3.6 Virtues of Simplicity -- 3.7 What Can Be Done? -- PART II: The Free and Open Source Alternative -- 4 GPL: A Private Copyleft Act -- 4.1 License Ideology: Stallman, Gates, and the Ethics of Copying -- 4.2 UNIX, GNU, and Linux -- 4.3 Free Software, Copyleft, and the GPL -- 4.4 GPL "Enforceability" -- 4.5 Permissions and Patents -- 4.6 No More Readable Than the EULA -- 4.7 Free as in Free Beer -- 5 From "Free" to "Open Source" -- 5.1 A Focus on Process -- 5.2 Open Source License Proliferation -- 5.3 Process and Usability -- 5.4 Usability and Subsidy -- 6 The GPL, the Public Domain, and the Web -- 6.1 Proprietary Capture: The X Window "Paradigm" -- 6.2 Proprietary Capture and GPLv3 -- 6.3 CERN Web Software and Mosaic -- 6.4 Effects of a GPL-Licensed Mosaic -- 6.5 A More Proprietary Network? -- Conclusion: Going Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Cases -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z |
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