All right. I'm teasing you. I know you don't all hate trademark law, and I think some of you who do just don't understand it yet. So I have quite seriously been trying to figure out a way to explain trademark to you better than I have already.

New Zealand's copyright minister starts screaming when asked whether it's fair to cut people off from the Internet on the basis of three unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement

How legally defensible are proprietary data formats? That's the question asked in this fascinating piece from Nature. T

It's been more than a year since we had an update on the Copiepresse litigation against Google. There was supposed to be another court hearing in September, but it was postponed and last I heard it will be in November.

Linspire is entangled by difficulties after engaging in Microsoft's patent farce

This year, Creative Commons unveiled a new initiative called CC+. It is not a license. It's a protocol, although it's so simple that it almost doesn't warrant the term.

Well, it's time for SCO's Tec Forum, which is what SCO is calling SCOforum this year, and lest the company's press releases get lost to paid services someday and disappear behind their drawbridge, and in harmony with our goal to provide historians with the entire picture, here are a couple of press releases that went out today, one about an upgrade to SCOoffice Server and the other about SCO Mobil

According to the open source industry group FOSSBazaar, there are plenty of organizations that view using the software as risky. But the group maintains that concerns about open source stem from often poorly understood legal issues that could be overcome with some education.