Mark Webbink

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Mark Webbink is a lawyer and a member of the board of Software Freedom Law Center, which he joined in October, 2007. Webbink worked at Red Hat as its first general counsel from 2000 to 2004 and its deputy general counsel for intellectual property from 2004 to August 2007, when he retired.

[edit] Reference

  • Mark Webbink Joins Board of Software Freedom Law Center. Software Freedom Law Center (2007-10-10). Retrieved on 2007-12-23.

[edit] External link

  • A series of videos in which Webbink discusses intellectual property, Red Hat's Patent Promise, the GNU General Public License version 3, and software patents
  • Webbink's article in the Duke Law and Technology Review "A New Paradigm For Intellectual Property Rights In Software"
  • Webbink's article in the Journal of the New South Wales Society for Computers and the Law "Understanding Open Source"
  • U.S. Patent Reform Bill: An Interview with Mark Webbink, by Richard Koman, O'Reilly Policy Devcenter
  • Webbink's 2002 testimony before a joint hearing of the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on competition and intellectual property law
  • Webbink's website, walkingwithelephants.com, with information on open source licensing, copyright and software, and patents and software


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