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Lecture: " Open Source Licences and the Boundaries of Knowledge Production " Michael Madison , Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Place: Fauteux Hall , room 351 Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Description: What is the future of open source licensing? The presentation will use Jacbosen v. Katzer, a recent opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that analyzes an open source software license, to frame a discussion of open source issues that are conceptual, historical, and practical. For more information . RSVP needed to techlaw@uottawa.ca or on Facebook group . Dr. Madison appears to be a fairly enlightened lawyer who has studied and published on IP, copyright and (software) licensing issues: Intellectual Property and Americana, or Why IP Gets the Blues . 18 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 677 (2008). The Idea of the Law Rev...

The article When Is Open Access Not Open Access? (CJ MacCallum) PLoS Biology examines the slippery activities of publishers that try and fly the flag of Open Access (with varying degrees of capitalization) but who only offer the free-as-in-beer definition of freedom, as opposed to the Open Access definition, which includes --- as well as free- gratis freedom -- extensive intellectual property rights permitting unrestricted derivative use. This issue and these distinctions were discussed earlier this year in " Free but not open? " at the PLoS blog. I have noticed that many journals use the weasel words like " We conform to open access as defined by SHERPA ". The SHERPA definition does not include the extensive IP rights described by Open Access: By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of...