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Jacobsen v. Katzer
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New Media and Technology Law Blog
Landmark Open Source Lawsuit Ends with Settlement
A dispute between a proprietary software company and the Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) open source project has ended with a settlement, the JRMI project announced on February 17. The…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Jacobsen v. Katzer: Open Source Software Project Gains Key Rulings in Copyright Infringement Litigation
Jacobsen v. Katzer involves a dispute over rights in software code distributed pursuant to the open source Artistic License. Last year the case yielded one of the very few judicial…
ContractsProf Blog
Breaching conditions of an open-source license
Last December the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in Jacobsen v. Katzer, 535 F.3d 1373 (Fed Cir. 2008), that a user who violated the conditions of a…
Intellectual Property Law Blog
Open Source Licensing Finds Protection Before The CAFC
Open source licensing of software got a recent boost from an unlikely source, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The CAFC normally decides patent and trademark issues but…
The IP Law Blog
LICENSE TERMS: CONDITIONS OR COVENANTS – WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
By Dale C. Campbell A copyright holder has the right to specify the terms under which others may use his or her work. How the terms under which a third party…
ContractsProf Blog
Open Source Software: Why the Difference between Conditions and Covenants Matters
Yesterday, on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Deeplinks Blog, Michael Kwun keenly asked and addressed the following questions:Imagine that you write some code, and offer it to the public under an…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition
There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for…