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There is no copyright in a file format ... unless there is

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There's a lot of litigation around Bitcoin at the moment, on a number of different fronts. The litigation around the purported fiduciary duty of developers is interesting, but for another day. Today, Read more

Publishing your source code for others to use? Specify a licence, please!

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Warning: Copyright law is broadly harmonised around the world, but, when it comes to permitted uses and exceptions, and, in particular, to "fair use", it is not. So this is the usual reminder that I Read more

Give them (GNU GP)'ell: a new approach to claims for non-compliance with Free software licences?

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It's a strange world. I run a law firm which itself runs almost entirely on Free software, yet I don't get to write about Free / open source software as much as I'd like. But, today, I've got a good Read more

Github Copilot: initial thoughts from an English law perspective

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(I have more questions than answers, but I thought it was worth writing something, even if just as a straw man for others to rip apart.) Introducing Github Copilot Github has launched a beta tool, Read more