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Inside the SFLC's guide to legal management of FOSS projects
From the concept of copyleft to the status of community projects, free and open source software (FOSS) raises endless legal issues, many of which are subject to rumors and misconceptions floating around the community. ...
12:30 pm - THE BIOBRICKS FOUNDATION TECHNICAL & LEGAL STANDARDS ...
QB3 UCSF is sponsoring the BioBricks Foundation to host creators, users, and enablers of BioBrick standard biological parts in its 2nd Technical & Legal Standards Workshop. The goals of these series of Workshops are: 1) develop ...
Dissolving a Hedge Fund. We are investment managers to a fund that ...
We manage a hedge fund that has unfortunately suffered a significant decline in value. We are considering dissolving the fund and distributing the assets to the investors. Some of the US investors we’ve talked to asked that instead of ...
In the DVD Understanding Your Clients Nanotechnology Legal Needs ...
Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84323) has announced the addition of Understanding Your Clients Nanotechnology Legal Needs: 60 Minute Video SpeedBriefing Enabling You to Get...
Stanford / Google "Legal Futures Summit"
Wow, look at the lineup for this Google and Stanford Law School event that I am speaking at next week as part of a "Legal Futures Summit," which is billed as "a conversation between some of the world's leading thinkers about the future ...
Vermont Considers Lowering Legal Drinking Age
Twenty-three years after raising the legal drinking age to 21, Vermont lawmakers are revisiting the issue, despite the threat of losing highway funding if they lower the age minimum.
Guide For FOSS On Legal Issues
The free and open source software movement has always had a legal side which is working on this. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has released a guide called A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects (via ...
Is that legal?
It turned into a counseling session for her, and I also explained to her, in between breaths — that I didn’t care what anyone else thought, and that I wasn’t offended by her initial reaction: “Is that legal?” ...
Legal Academia — Family Friendly, or Not?
Is legal academia family friendly? That’s the Law Blog twist on a question raised by an opinion column in today’s WSJ. The column looks at a study of why academia broadly is filled with more “liberals” than conservatives. ...
Early publication beneficial
Indian patent office provides facility of early publication of the patent application (on payment). & many applicants are requesting for early publication. Is early publication beneficial to applicant? If it is, in what sense?