Copyright Protection for Open Source
The issue of copyright has been a contentious internet issue. A U.S. court ruling established a precedent:
“…”For non-lawgeeks, this won’t seem important but this is huge,” said Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig.
“In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licences set conditions on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the licence disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer.”
link: Legal milestone for open source
This ruling removes any ambiguity. Even if a work is free online, the original source of the material is afforded legal protection.
A future court challenge will be the issue of Creative Commons and Artistic Licence of text material online. Often text material is duplicated without attribution to the original source or with false attribution. This happens often online and the international courts will need to delineate clearly how the originator of the work is protected.
Catherine Forsythe
Tags: artistic licence, copyright, court ruling, creative commons, open source
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