Open core licensing, also known as commercial extensions, is a licensing regime that offers core components for free, but charges licensees for additional premium products. The approach is a twist…
Month: July 2009
Wikipedia: Advancing the public interest, or stealing copyrighted photographs?
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in the United Kingdom holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Over the past five years, the gallery has been working on…
Newspaper Publishers and Google Butt Heads Over Aggregators
For months newspaper publishers have been complaining about Google, creators of the ubiquitous search engine and the largest online ad-space sellers. Publishers have argued that online news aggregators like Google…
Patent Prosecution as Part of Business Models?
On Monday, July 13th, Mosaid Technologies Inc. filed a suit against IBM Corporation for patent infringement concerning six of Mosaid’s United States patents. The suit was filed in the United…
Public Interest Litigation to Prevent GM Seeds in India
Jasdeep Bal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Human Rights Law Network (where I am summer interning) utilizes public interest litigation (PIL) as their primary weapon to…
A Report about Facebook by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
On July 16th, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a report of findings into complaints made by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) against…