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US Federal Court Upholds Open Source Licenses

Aug 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Law

Free content pioneer Lawrence Lessig notes at his blog today that a US Federal Court has upheld open source licenses (pdf), helping to build a case history for Creative Commons licenses that are frequently used in new media:
The Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on [...]