Foundation Funding: Open Licenses, Greater Impact

Private foundations support the creation of a wide range of work products, ranging from books, articles, reports, and research summaries to educational materials and textbooks to photographs, works of visual art, films, videos, and musical compositions and recordings to software code, computer programs and technical systems to many, many others. To achieve the most impact and the greatest good with the money they invest, foundations seek to ensure the broadest dissemination and greatest, most productive and innovative use, reuse and redistribution of the many works they support.

Best Practices in the Use of Technology to Facilitate Access to Justice Initiatives

Preliminary Report

The Cyberlaw Clinic undertook this study to help the Massachusetts Trial Court work toward a comprehensive, holistic strategic plan for maximizing technology’s role in the Access to Justice Initiative.

An Evaluation of Private Foundation Copyright Licensing Policies, Practices and Opportunities

This project undertook to examine the copyright licensing policies and practices of a group of twelve private foundations. In particular, it looked at the extent to which charitable foundations are aware of and have begun to use open licenses such as Creative Commons or the GPL. The complete results and comprehensive analysis and recommendations are contained in the full Report of this project.

Amicus Brief: Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Michael E. Bryant

For the reasons set forth above, amici respectfully urge this Court not to take the unprecedented and extremely disruptive step of expanding the application of Section 3A’s seven-day warrant-return rule to the forensic analysis of the contents of a properly seized computer.

Amicus Brief: Bosley Medical Institute Inc. v. Michael Steven Kremer

For the foregoing reasons, amici curiae intellectual property law faculty respectfully request that this Court uphold the District Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee Kremer.