guarantee through copyright an adequate (and not exaggerate) software legal protection …’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally …

existing examples of collaborative licensing models. Those models are examined from a theoretical perspective and tested in a …

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation … same conditions, a copyright strategy could result in a tragedy of the anticommons (Heller 1998, Buchanan 2000). We study … 'innovate' producing words from given letters, and face the choice to copyright or copyleft their words. Subsequent words can be …

between developers, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however …Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. In contrast, we argue how intellectual … be seen as a threat for the development and deployment of open source software. We present the nature of the threat and …

maintain that software patents hinder the standards setting process so important for high-technology industries and that …In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and …