Digital IP Practice Questions

  1. What was (the original) goal of copyright law?

  2. When does a work become copyrighted?

  3. What is copyrightable?

  4. What is patentable? How does a patent differ from a copyright? What does it mean for software to be patentable?

  5. Is Open Source the same as "free" software? What does the word free in free software connote?

  6. Why is Microsoft attacking the GPL?

  7. Why is there no significant "Free Hardware Movement" analagous to the Free Software Foundation's work?

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