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Information Governance
Key Congressional Leaders Advance Efforts To Strengthen Consumer Privacy Protections
Leading congressional proponents of strong privacy protections for consumers' personal information have recently introduced legislation that advances the debate in Congress regarding whether and how such increased protections should be implemented. As discussed below, these bills are quite...
Read MoreTrend Spotting: Recognizing The Growing Risk Of IP Litigation Facing OSS Developers And Implementers
The pending, well-publicized patent dispute between Trend Micro, Inc. and Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a good recent example of the fact that open source software ("OSS"), and "free" software generally, is not free of legal risks, including risks of litigation. Rather, litigation is a commonplace...
Read MoreAll OSS Developers Are Equal, But Some OSS Developers Are More Equal Than Others!
The Open Source Software ("OSS") community was founded on the notion that any party can use, modify and further distribute OSS, so long as that party contributes back to the OSS community the human-readable "source code" of any changes/ enhancements made to the software. Unfortunately, the Free...
Read MoreThe Power Of Choice: Massachusetts Wisely Embraces Multiple Document Format Standards To Drive Greater Competition And Innovation
A "document format" (also known as a "file format") is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file.1Numerous document formats exist for encoding and storing the same type of information in word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and other document types. Such document...
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