“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.” WorldNeedsUseOrderCoursesUnderstandingIssuesRightsJudgingDevelopmentSittingCourtTrialsConsumersContentmentSoftwarePermissionPublishersAstonishingBargainsCopyrightContentionMultimedia Author:Eben Moglen
“As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.” WarBigsLawPiecesProductsSoftwareFierceConfrontationPatentsTerrainWaterlooPatent Law Author:Eben Moglen
