I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at the Practicing Law Institute’s “Open Source and Free Software 2013: Benefits, Risks and Challenges” continuing education for lawyers in San Francisco in December. I did this last year (on a panel with the excellent Mark Radcliffe) and it was a lot of fun.
Topics will include:
- Setting the Stage: An Introduction to “FOSS” and Copyright Concepts
- Open Source Software and its Licenses
- License Enforcement and Avoiding Litigation
- Effective Business Practices in the Open Source Cloud
- Ethics: Conflict and Cooperation in Open Source Projects
- Royalty-Free Patents and Open Standards in Open Source Software
- Hot Topics: Critical Issues and Important Cases in FOSS
I’ll be on a panel on the last topic (“Hot Topics”) with Larry Rosen and Karen Copenhaver. The rest of the speaker lineup is excellent as well:
- Daniel Berlin – Google
- Adam Cohn – Cisco
- Eileen Evans – HP
- Harrison “Buzz” Frahn – Simpson Thatcher
- Gabe Holloway – Leonard, Street and Deinard
- Mario Madden – Microsoft
- Gervase Markham – Mozilla
- Gwyn Murray – Matau Legal Group
- Marc Visnick – Johnson-Laird
I’m afraid it isn’t cheap, but it’s a full day of CLE, and (based on my experience last year) a good way for lawyers not familiar with open source to get up to speed quickly. (It’s also going to be streamed for those who aren’t feeling like pressing the flesh.)
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