by Tom Petrocelli On July 9, 2020 there was an announcement that Google had formed an organization called the Open Usage Commons, or OUC. In a previous blog I laid out the case that this organization was a horrible idea from an intellectual property (IP) management and licensing perspective. In a nutshell, this new organization is holding the trademarks, and only the trademarks, from open source projects. Copyright would continue to be managed through the current open-source licenses and organizations. As someone who spent several years as part of the intellectual property management industry (at a company literally called IP.com)...
Why Tom Petrocelli Thinks Google Is Forming the Open Usage Commons (OUC)


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