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| Title: | Viral contracts or unenforcable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses. |
| Authors: | Guadamuz, Andres |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Citation: | (2004) 26(8) European Intellectual Property Review, pp331-339 |
| Publisher: | Sweet and Maxwell |
| Abstract: | This paper asks the question of whether copyleft free software licences constitute valid legal contracts, in particular with regards to the fact that it may create obligations through a distribution chain. There is increasing interest about the non-proprietary licence model expressed in popular documents such as the General Public Licence (GPL), but not enough work has been done in asking perhaps the most important question of all: are these contracts enforceable? |
| Sponsor(s): | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Keywords: | copyleft
licenses |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2263 |
| Appears in Collections: | Open Access in E-Commerce: Money, Commerce, Consumers
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