Talk:Please help find these documents
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/
Not a lot to go on here, but while rummaging around I found the following.
Andrés Guadamuz. "The Software Patent Debate". Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Vol. 1, No. 3. pp. 196-206. 2006.
The article is rife with hand-washing but is otherwise pretty informed of the free software perspective. Unfortunately, the author seeks a third-way-ism that promotes a European software patent regime. --Ashawley 22:03, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Was this it? Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property and Information Technology: Patents for Software, Algorithms and Business Methods, October 2003. http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/files/70_andersonpatentsforsoftwareoct03.pdf
--Ashawley 16:10, 29 March 2012 (EDT)
- I actually can't remember now what was interesting about the broken-linked document :-/
- But in any case, that document you've found probably has stuff worth adding to the wiki. I've added it to Links_to_be_processed#March_2012 for now.
- There's some stuff in there that would be useful in the EPO case law article. If anyone has time to give it a quick read and add the info, or add the link as a reference for existing info, that would be great. Ciaran 16:22, 29 March 2012 (EDT)
I think it would be a good idea if all the external links would be archived (using "fair use")
Otherwise, it might only be a matter of time until they disappear form the Internet. This is more true the more damning the document is to the opposition or otherwise helpful to us since the opposition tends to be well funded and can exert pressure in many ways including outright paying for removal or for others to catch an expired domain name and then make things disappear. Of course, without any bad intent, the odds keep increasing every day for any given document to disappear from any given link. To turn the odds around, the public needs to build a habit of archiving important material and then publishing them as necessary. Only use the archive after a link disappears. Perhaps consider asking PJ from groklaw.net what she does, as I think she has been doing this for a long time and has a better idea about copyright issues (fair use archiving for possible use in court?)Jose X 20:25, 16 October 2010 (EDT)
- This is important alright. Copyright isn't a problem, we've got three options:
- Use a service like wikiwix (which fr.wikipedia.org uses for all references: [1])
- Make offline archives (I could make a copy of the relevant files on my computer and only put them online if/when the original disappears)
- Rely on fair use
- All three seems reasonable - I haven't seen anyone getting in trouble for archiving things. I've archived some documents on my local computer, but I haven't really gotten organised yet. Ciaran 08:41, 17 October 2010 (EDT)
