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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Hlavní autor: Phillips, Douglas E.
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York Oxford University Press 2009
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Vydání:1
Témata:
Computer programs
Computer science
COMPUTERS
Copyright
Copyright > Computer programs
Copyright licenses
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property law
LAW
Law and legislation
Open source software
Open source software > Law and legislation
ISBN:9780195341874, 0195341872
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  • 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
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