intellectual property and open source

[tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Maybe we should have a meeting on intellectual property in general.

Yes. While there are a bunch a lawyers in the area that will talk about 
IP law at user group meetings, to make the topic more broadly 
interesting you really need to get a speaker (not necessarily a lawyer) 
who was involved in one of the open source related cases.

Any well known IP cases with participants in the Boston area?
The EFF might be able to supply a speaker or refer us to one.
(A search for "boston" at their site mostly turns up the MIT students' 
hack against the MBTA, and the recent seizure of a BC student's computer 
- neither having string ties to IP law.)

  -Tom

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