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Duncan Bucknell in Grand (IP) Strategy discusses the need for integrating IP strategy with other aspects of a business:
In the IP Strategy context, ‘Strategy’ is the way you use intellectual property to maximise commercial objectives.
‘Grand Strategy’ uses all elements (HR, Marketing, PR, Sales, Manufacturing, Legal, IP, Business Development, Distribution, etc, etc) to the same end.
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OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
Report on Ordnance Survey licensing practices. Free Our Data covers in this post the report from the Commons Select Committee on Communities and Local Government looking [...]

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I’m currently doing work developing content on IP and entrepreneurship, and I’ve been working on some diagrams that I thought I’d share about the different types of licences that are out there, and place open content licensing in context.
To start with, a licence (or license depending on your US/UK perspective) is permission you give someone [...]

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I’ve been a little slow on posting this week, but I’ve been running around the Southeast of England on various work-related projects. I did however make it up to Oxford last night to see Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation give a keynote entitled “Open Knowledge and Componentization” at Oxford Geek Night 5. [...]

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OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
EU Public Licence. On the software side of things, Technollama reports on the new European Union Public Licnece, said to be GPL compatible.
Ford releases photos [...]

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