Open Access Intellectual Property Systems: A Comparison to Commercial Solutions in Competitive Intelligence

Intellectual Property and Open Systems

Arguably, the most profound issue in designing and governing cyberspace focuses on intellectual property. Is cyberspace to be created as a commons -a space belonging to and used freely by the community as a whole -or, is it to be partitioned into a multitude of proprietary closed boxes that are owned and sold, distributed, modified, and used only according to the owner’s whims? This paper will ...

Intellectual Property Infringement by Artificial Intelligence Applications

The growing capabilities and widening use of artificial intelligence applications (AI apps) in mainstream consumer devices (e.g., Siri on the iPhone 4S) are converging to poise interesting intellectual property challenges. While currently the most sophisticated of these apps are, at best, in an advanced-alpha or early-beta version, this technology is fueled by innovation moving at an exponentia...

Intellectual Property Systems in Software

Support for research and development in information technology is considered today as critical by most governments in the industrially advanced countries. Traditionally the way of stimulating research has been to ensure to the investor the appropriability of the returns generated. Such appropriability is typically implemented by means of the Intellectual Property Rigths. Nevertheless the protec...

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Managerial Approaches to Support Intellectual Property Rights in Museums

Some of the cultural works which are considered as cultural heritage, regardless of their antiquity and precedence, are simultaneously subject of the legal systems of intellectual property rights and cultural heritage law. This situation can lead to a conflict of interest between private ownership and public law which, in turn, may create many problems for the management of cultural heritage wh...