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The US copyright lobby has long argued against open source software - now Indonesia's in the firing line for encouraging the idea in government departments

Scott Leslie is getting tired of people blindly accepting the official line of copyright and intellectual "property" as some sort of eternal right, rather than the modern (and increasingly faltering) invention it is

This guidance examines the legal implications of recording lectures at UK FE and HE institutions, focusing mainly on the issues of copyright and consent. It includes a flow chart of the legal issues and model consent form for institutions to use. It can

Major concerns have been raised about the impact of the Digital Economy Bill on universities, which fear it is likely to result in a "bureaucratic burden and muddle".

In a first for the UK, the University of Glasgow is to offer Intellectual Property - including ground-breaking medical and scientific research - to business and entrepreneurs free of charge.

Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoe Corbyn weighs up the ramifications for journals, while Matthew Reisz asks how book

The intellectual property rights toolkit for public sector bodies has been developed for the Strategic Content Alliance by the Alliance's IPR consultants, Professor Charles Oppenheim and Naomi Korn.