IPR, Law and FLOSS: building a protected commons

Slides

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (Senior Researcher, United Nations University / Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology)

An overview of the different laws regarding the so-called ""intelectual property rights"" and how they affect free software

The presentation (pdf format)

Annexes:

presentation-rishab-copyrights.pdf

Date: April 15th, 2008

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