Episode 1: Copyright, Selfie Monkeys and the Hand of God
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative explores copyrights in the context of software and data with OSI board member Pamela Chestek.
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Episode 1: transcript
[INTRODUCTION] [00:00:00] PC: We’re getting to a point of software development, where it’s not so easy to put things in buckets anymore as to what a human wrote, or what…
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