What free software licensing books have been published?

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

Sáb, 2006-12-30 às 13:38 +0100, Michael Kallas escreveu:
> Alex Hudson schrieb:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:55 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> [...]
> >> 4. Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, by Larry Rosen
> >>
> >> I don't know if any of them are any good.  I've heard the 2nd one is good,
> >> but I can't read German.  I have a suspicion that the 4th is quite bad.
> [...]
> > On what basis do you suspect the Rosen book is bad, btw?
> > 
> > (Aside from the coverage of 'controversies', eg. SCO, I was of the
> > impression it was basically a factual hand-in-hand walk through basic IP
> > law?)
> 
> As there is nothing common in patents, copyright and trademark laws and
> as they have very different histories, putting them together into one
> pot called "Intellectual Property" is very bad. Thus I would suspect
> this book to be bad and guess that's the reason of Ciaran to do so, too.

Also, if there's no "Intellectual Property Law" but many laws, how can I
take such a lawyer as credible?

Rui

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