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IP/IT

— law & stuff

> notes on copyright, open source, data, cybersecurity
> and the things in between.

A personal blog by Holger A. Kastler — IP/IT lawyer with early coding roots.

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fear-of-oss.mden

The fear of open-source software

Open-source software is everywhere in commercial IT — but does it really matter for your business, especially in the cloud?

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sampling-kraftwerk-pelham.mden

The never-ending case?

Sampling, Kraftwerk v. Pelham, and how EU law ended Germany’s “free use” right.

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djs-als-urheber.mdde

DJs als Urheber?

Aktualisierte Fassung eines ursprünglich 2010 veröffentlichten Beitrags über die Rechte am DJ-Mix.

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