Sáb, 2006-12-30 às 13:38 +0100, Michael Kallas escreveu: > Alex Hudson schrieb: > > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:55 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > [...] > >> 4. Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, > >> by Larry Rosen > >> > >> I don't know if any of them are any good. I've heard the 2nd one is good, > >> but I can't read German. I have a suspicion that the 4th is quite bad. > [...] > > On what basis do you suspect the Rosen book is bad, btw? > > > > (Aside from the coverage of 'controversies', eg. SCO, I was of the > > impression it was basically a factual hand-in-hand walk through basic IP > > law?) > > As there is nothing common in patents, copyright and trademark laws and > as they have very different histories, putting them together into one > pot called "Intellectual Property" is very bad. Thus I would suspect > this book to be bad and guess that's the reason of Ciaran to do so, too.
Also, if there's no "Intellectual Property Law" but many laws, how can I take such a lawyer as credible? Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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