New regulations dealing with the registration of software copyright in China have come into force, aimed at bringing the country's laws into line with the IP standards of the WTO. The amended rules ...

Last month, in an unpublished memorandum disposition, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a significant district court decision granting summary judgment, on fair use grounds, to ...

The AI assistant software released by Jingyeda covers multiple areas such as diagnostics, Q&A, and graphs. The emergence of these tools indicates the application potential of AI technology within ...

You see it sprinkled liberally in mailing list and forum discussions: IANAL. “I am not a lawyer.” Of course, legal analysis often follows—sometimes well informed, but often wildly incorrect or ...

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Open software advocates and lawyers clashed over what IP protection software should have during a meeting of IP stakeholders yesterday The Federation Against ...

A change in New Zealand’s copyright law will see software developers owning their software by default, even when that software is commissioned, and that has led one ...

UnitedLex was hit with a copyright infringement suit by the software developer Scalr last week for allegedly marketing the use of the technology to law firms after a licensing agreement ended at the ...

Software Freedom Law Center alleges that two companies distributing open source BusyBox are not providing access to the source code, as required by GPL The Software Freedom Law Center, an organization ...