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If you run a small business, you have probably given some thought over this recession to how you might be able to collaborate with other businesses to generate some additional revenue for your business. I know that this is definitely something that I have been thinking about for my practice, and it is something [...]

Most companies and individuals are looking to cut expenses right now, but have you considered looking to your intellectual property portfolio to generate additional capital? 
According to a report by the Chicago Tribune, many companies and even individual inventors are doing just that right now: while the rest of the economy is sinking, business is booming [...]

In a recent blogpost, AdamsDrafting suggested that the recession should prompt companies to look at overhauling their contract template process.
AdamsDrafting wrote:

[A] recession should provide a greater incentive for a company to do something about the considerable amounts of time and money that it’s wasting due to its mediocre templates and primitive contract process.
I completely [...]

Open Source Software Licensing in its “pure” form is not a viable business model, reported CMS Wire on a study recently conducted by the 451 Group.
According to the CMS Wire report, the 451 Group study looked at the business strategies of some 114 open source vendors, and found as follows:
-The majority of [...]

The Licensing Handbook Blog ran an interesting posting today on consortia agreements. I am currently in the middle of a consortia negotiation, so the posting caught my attention.
The Licensing Handbook Blog posting responded to a posting by SpendMatters, which had stated that participating in purchasing consortia can be an excellent means of leveraging resources to [...]

PlagiarismToday raised an interesting question today when it asked if blog content licensing was dead.
I have given several presentations on blog law issues now, but I must say that I had never really given thought to the issue of whether or not there was really a market for blog content licensing–beyond, of course, thinking [...]

Should the Associated Press have the right to set its own standards as to how much quoting from an Associated Press article constitutes fair use and how much requires the payment of a royalty?
The Associated Press (”A.P.”) apparently thinks so, based on recent coverage of its plans to adopt blogging guidelines for quoting [...]