When we a buy a book, we all pretty much understand what rights our ownership of that copy gives us. But what about software? Do we even own the copy, or does the inevitable "the software is licensed, ...

In China, computer software is automatically protected under the Copyright Law upon its creation. This protection extends to both computer programs and their ...

The case of artist Kristina Kashtanova changed my perspective on modern software development. In 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) ruled on her graphic novel ...

It is axiomatic that “ideas are not protectable” under the constitutional protections for intellectual property (IP). Rather, protection inures only upon unique creative expression of an idea ...

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called ...