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Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code View Larger Image | Van Lindberg
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published July 2008, 390 pages, ISBN 0596517963 | List Price: $34.99
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"Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of
law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"
-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of
the Stanford Center for Internet and Society
If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to
your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling.
This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with
intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear
look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including
practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter.
Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual
Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks,
trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open
source development and the GPL. This book answers questions such as:
• How do open source and intellectual property work together?
• What are the most important intellectual property-related issues when starting
a business or open source project?
• How should you handle copyright, licensing and other issues when accepting
a patch from another developer?
• How can you pursue your own ideas while working for someone else?
• What parts of a patent should be reviewed to see if it applies to your work?
• When is your idea a trade secret?
• How can you reverse engineer a product without getting into trouble?
• What should you think about when choosing an open source license for your
project?
Most legal sources are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read. Intellectual
Property and Open Source is a friendly, easy-to-follow overview of the law that
programmers, system administrators, graphic designers, and many others will
find essential.
About the Author
Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most,
though, is translate - from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back.
He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done.
Before becoming a lawyer, Van was a research and development engineer at NTT/Verio,
building automation tools and distributed systems, mostly in Python. He has
been involved with open source since 1994, when a friend introduced him to Linux.
Currently, Van works for Haynes and Boone, a law firm headquartered in Dallas.
Van's work at Haynes and Boone touches both traditional intellectual property
and the emerging field of open source law, where he advises businesses and open
source groups on intellectual property issues.
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