Jacques Crémer
Colleges / Universities: Toulouse University
Open Source
Description: Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering accessibility to a software’s source code. It is a licensing model of intellectual property.
Open Source Scholars
James Bessen
Colleges / Universities: Boston University
Josh Lerner
Colleges / Universities: Harvard University
Recent Open Source Blog Posts
Recent Open Source Academic Article Summaries
Quotes in the News
Samuelson, P. (2016, June 2). Ars Technica.“Developers of software need some simple norms to live by. One such norm is that independent reimplementation of an API in one's own original code does not infringe copyright. That's the law as well as good public policy.”
Pamela Samuelson
TAP Scholar
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor of School Information
Professor of School Information
School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
Bessen, J. (2014, May 21). Slate.“During the early stage of a major new technology, inventors share designs and knowledge and patent little; later, things become more competitive and patents play a larger role. As technologies mature, firms share less and patent more.”
James Bessen
TAP Scholar
Director and Founder, Research on Innovation
Executive Director, Technology & Policy Research Initiative
Lecturer in Law
School of Law
Boston University
