Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
The matter is controversial because the intellectual property of software is typically protected through copyright.
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The international conferences will focus on the on-going discussions about open access to education and culture, using and applying creative commons licenses, meaning and development of free software, and challenges for intellectual property rights.
Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
It took the advent of software piracy and the birth of "intellectual property crime" to add a fillip to international efforts against counterfeiting.
In other news, Apple, the US electronics giant, appeared in court in Shanghai yesterday accused by a local firm of violating intellectual property rights in its software used on Siri, China Daily reports.
Beyond that, any company that has open-source software sitting on its networks, integrated into its digital intellectual property, might have to circle the wagons and figure out what to do.
There is a current exception, but it is narrow and unclear, and this has a chilling effect upon a lot of legitimate research -- some of the research would actually help protect intellectual property by helping to make digital rights management software stronger.
Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.
Black Duck's main offering, protexIP (IP, as in "intellectual property"), contains a library of open-source programs that software writers frequently incorporate into larger applications.
The fake Firefox information attached to the FinFisher software was "deliberately designed to be read and mislead, " said Simon Ayrton, a partner at specialist intellectual property law firm Powell Gilbert.
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