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Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator has adopted an "open source" strategy of placing its library of standard deal documents into the public domain, writes VentureBeat. The firm believes that this step will increase the number of fundable startups overall, and will attract the best startups to itself.

'I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE "IP" court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them "open source") copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others. ... In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you're simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL and all CC licenses. Put precisely, whether or not they are also contracts, they are copyright licenses which expire if you fail to abide by the terms of the license. '

StorageMojo is right, I'm unlikely to support purchasing NetApp again regardless of how this nonsense finishes

The Signers call on all governments to: 1. Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards; 2. Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards; 3. Use only free and open digital standards in their o

"Inventing Publics: Kairos and Intellectual Property Law" looks to explore the possibilities of the "open content" movement, specifically the licensing model offered by Creative Commons

High tech trends like online music sharing, podcasting, blogging and streaming Internet video services seem to be evolving faster than you can click a<sep/>

Article and discussion over today's patent suit.