Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Posted Oct 6, 2018 15:42 UTC (Sat) by ReallyNiceGuy (guest, #60085)
Parent article: Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Im my view, software patents are broken by design. I have never seen a protection against copyright.

Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Posted Oct 7, 2018 4:27 UTC (Sun) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm not across US law, but isn't their Digital Millennium Copyright Act section 1201 rules for exemptions from anti-circumvention measures exactly a "protection against copyright [law]".

Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Posted Oct 7, 2018 13:46 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Just because it's *called* a "copyright act", doesn't mean it *is* a copyright act ...

The DMCA is a *technology* act.

Cheers,
Wol