Copyleft Capitalism: GPLv3 & the Future of Software Innovation

Eben Moglen's invited talk at IBM Research:

Copyleft Capitalism: GPLv3 & the Future of Software Innovation.

ABSTRACT
Software is now, in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, made by "communities" rather than "firms." The result is one of the less familiar aspects of 21st century economics -- the dead-weight inefficiency of legal rules that treat knowledge as "property" from which non-paying users (who are also potential creators) should be excluded.

Alternative legal arrangements that permit sharing are in this environment preferentially selected and the evolutionary process has reached a new stage with the development and adoption of GPLv3. In this talk I consider both the constituent details and the larger context of the copyleft revolution in software production, and of GPLv3 in particular.

BIO
Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School. Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School – and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia – since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court. He is also a director of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

IBM

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