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Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Open Source Law

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 08, @06:12PM
from the free-as-air dept.
Russ Nelson writes "The U.S. Supreme Court just announced its refusal to review the 5th Circuit's en banc decision that there can be no copyright of privately authored laws offered to U.S. governmental bodies for adoption. The model law itself may be copyrighted, but once it's adopted, the law must be open source. The entire case is laid out on Peter Veeck's page." Slashdot touched on this before, but never really covered this dispute in depth. Here's a nice legal summary of the case.

[Slashdot]

8:08:25 PM

Web Site Defacement Winner Announced. A well-known Brazilian crew won this past weekend's Web site defacement contest, amassing more than twice as many points as the second-place team. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
5:49:20 PM

Torvalds: What, me worry?. Linux creator Linus Torvalds sounds off on SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM, intellectual property in the open-source world and the future of the Linux operating system. [CNET News.com]
5:01:00 PM

ZDNet: Microsoft Antitrust Case Takes Linux Twist The Massachusetts attorney general's office is investigating whether Microsoft tried to squash Linux in violation of the consent decree settling the company's landmark antitrust case. [Linux Today]
11:24:41 AM

EMC to buy software firm for $1.3 billion. The maker of data storage equipment is again adding to its software portfolio this year with its acquisition of Legato Systems. [CNET News.com]
10:41:41 AM

Yahoo! News - McDonald's to Announce Internet Expansion - Report - McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD - news) plans to announce a big rollout of wireless Internet service in about 75 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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