On 1/26/06, Yorick Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Beware, what you are citing is an opinion, and not the actual legal > framework.
Yorick, Yorick. I suggest you go talk to Hoeren on "software licensing" in Europe. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/feedback/OIIFB_GPL3_20040903.pdf The Prof. is no stranger. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoeren http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/panel/profiles/hoeren.pdf MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES Member/Vice President, German Association for Law and Informatics (DGRI); Member, Society for Computers and Law, U.K.; Member, German-Japanese Law Association, Hamburg and Tokyo; Co-editor "Computer und Recht", Computer and Law, Cologne; Member, Institute for European Media law, Saarbrücken; Member, Editorial Board, Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, BNA's Electronic Information Policy and Law Report and EDI Law Review; Legal Advisor, European Commission/DG XIII, Legal Advisory Board on Information Technology; Co-editor, Multimedia und Recht, Munich; Member, Task Force Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the European Commission; Legal expert in several research projects commissioned by the European Commission/DG III (COPEARMS), DG XIII (MULTISOLUTION, EDIBOL, EDIPAY) and the DG XV; Member, Legal Advisory Board, DENIC, Frankfurt. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Intellectual Property law; Internet Regulation; Information Law; Unfair Competition Law; International Business Law. EXPERIENCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Judge at the Court of Appeal in Düsseldorf within the Trademark & Copyright Senate; Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Muenster; Member, Task Force Group on Intellectual Property Law, European Commission/DG XIII. regards, alexander.
