Comments on: An anti-patent-abuse appropriate technology political bloc?

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:14:19 +0000

I don’t really know your background, but ever followed the “debacle” around GPLv3?
http://gplv3.fsf.org/rms-why.html

GPLv3 is intended as some kind of protection against patents-litigation I believe.

By: Vinay Gupta

Vinay Gupta — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:37:31 +0000

Yes, OIN is much closer to the general ballpark.

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:34:35 +0000

Are you thinking of something like the Open Invention Network? They've got IBM and Google on board, amongst others.

By: Vinay Gupta

Vinay Gupta — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:11:46 +0000

Creative Commons is very cool, but it only protects items which are covered by copyright, there’s nothing equivalent for patent. Inventions, machines and devices are typically protected by patents rather than by copyrights, and that’s a whole different branch of law.

It’s harder territory…

Cheers!

By: Asoka

Asoka — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:09:59 +0000

Yes, in the area of copyright there is a movement in the USA to legally subvert the provision of the law which automatically grants full copyright upon creation of a work, a provision which makes it difficult to freely share ideas.

So there is http://creativecommons.org which allows creators to share their creative work by relicensing to a some rights reserved instead of all rights reserved. This promotes sharing and diffusion of ideas. Check it out!