Alex Hudson schrieb:
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:55 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
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- 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.
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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.
Best wishes Michael