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"The State of Oregon is trying to copyright its laws, and giving a nasty company preferential access to them..." - via RMS website

This paper discusses, how intellectual property rights operate in the field of computer software. It was read by Justice Yatindra Singh Judge Allahabad High Court on 15th March 2008 at National Conference on Advancements in Information Communication Technology Allahabad

Code and law have been inextricably mixed ever since Richard Stallman drew up the first GNU GPL. Indeed, in many ways, the logical processes for crafting both are similar - which is probably handy. Nonetheless, law does present special problems that hackers need to be aware of. To provide some help, the Software Freedom Law Center has just put together a useful legal issues primer for open source and free software projects:

With the Canadian version of the DMCA likely to be introduced within the next two weeks, there has a remarkable outpouring of interest from individual Canadians about what they can do to have their concerns heard.