“Know Your Rights: A Legal Primer for Software Developers, Artists and Content Creators” by Irizarry, Silberman and Gupta – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Know Your Rights: A Legal Primer for Software Developers, Artists and Content Creators” by Irizarry, Silberman and Gupta

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Entry Number: 18

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    Know Your Rights: A Legal Primer for Software Developers, Artists and Content Creators

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    Prerequisites?
    None. No prior legal knowledge is required.? ??

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    hat’s the difference between a copyright and a trademark, between trade secrets and patents? What? do these terms really mean? Having trouble keeping up with the various open-source and content licensing schemes? Want to distribute your creative work, but don’t know how to prevent unauthorized use? Concerned about lawsuits based? on your web site or user-created content? This class introduces the basic legal concepts you need to understand to license, distribute, and protect your content, and avoid
    making expensive mistakes that can ruin your business. In the question-and-answer period following the session, the presenters discuss attendeeslegal questions.??


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