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Copyright, Copyleft, and Shakespeare After Shakespeare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Much critical ink has been spilled in defining and establishing the terms of discussion: appropriation, adaptation, off-shoot, recontextualization, riff, reworking, and so on have been used interchangeably or under erasure. This paper both examines the utility of such nice distinctions, and critiques existing taxonomies.
Sujata Iyengar
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Copyleft

2010
Developing an open-source alternative to the UNIX operating system in the early 1980s, the master hacker Richard Stallman faced a dilemma: if he put his new GNU software in the public domain, people could copyright their improved versions, undermining the open-source cycle by taking away the freedoms he’d granted.
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Logiciels : “copyleft” et brevetabilité

LEGICOM, 2002
La question de la brevetabilité des logiciels « en tant que tels » a été récemment relancée par l’Union européenne, alors même que l’Office européen des brevets accorde déjà sous certaines conditions cette protection. La loi française accorde quant à elle la protection du droit d’auteur aux logiciels depuis 1985.
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Copyleft Reconsidered: Why Software Licensing Jurisprudence Needs Insights from Relational Contract Theory

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This article calls for a re-examination, from a Relational Contract Theory perspective, of the ‘copyleft’ agreement, which mandates the source code of publicly released software to be perpetually shared with the public. It deals with standard-form copyleft licences such as the GNU General Public Licence, whose legal enforceability has often been a ...
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Von copyleft bis copyright

2011
Gegenstandsbereich der Arbeit ist es, vor dem Hintergrund der bereits im Software-sektor bekannten Open Source Software, das momentan wohl bekannteste Lizenz-modell für die Veröffentlichung als Open Content rechtlich zu erörtern. Denn auch wenn schöpferische Inhalte basierend auf dem Copyleft-Gedanken frei zugänglich gemacht werden, sind juristisch ...
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Copyright vs. Copyleft licensing and Software Development [PDF]

open access: possible, 2007
This article aims at clarifying the role played by licenses within the increasingly relevant Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon. In particular, the article explores from a theoretical point of view the comparative properties of the two main categories of OSS license--copyleft and non-copyleft licenses--in terms of their ability to stimulate ...
D'ANTONI, MASSIMO ANDREA   +1 more
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GPL A Private Copyleft Act

2009
Abstract Compared to the complexity and variability of EULAs, the Copyright Act is a model of simplicity and uniformity. If the software provider instead wishes to permit the use of an unlimited number of copies and the unrestricted transfer of copies, copyright law proides an even simpler concept.
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Copyleft Licensing and EC Competition Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The growing popularity of open source software has ignited numerous legal studies on open source licenses. Most of them have focused on copyright and patent law. This article adds to the literature by studying open source licenses from EC competition law perspective.
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