{"id":163,"date":"2012-04-19T21:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=163"},"modified":"2012-04-19T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:41:58","slug":"dont-let-software-patents-stop-us-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-jonathan-zittrain-comment-is-free-guardian-co-uk-19-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/04\/19\/dont-let-software-patents-stop-us-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-jonathan-zittrain-comment-is-free-guardian-co-uk-19-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let software patents stop us standing on the shoulders of giants | Jonathan Zittrain | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk, 19 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s why the key to today&#8217;s battles over intellectual property lies with derivative works: once Lego claims ownership to anything built with its blocs, or Oracle to anything written in Java, whole swaths of creativity and innovation are blocked to no good end.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/apr\/18\/software-patents-shoulders-of-giants\">Don&#8217;t let software patents stop us standing on the shoulders of giants | Jonathan Zittrain | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s why the key to today&#8217;s battles over intellectual property lies with derivative works: once Lego claims ownership to anything built with its blocs, or Oracle to anything written in Java, whole swaths of creativity and innovation are blocked to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/04\/19\/dont-let-software-patents-stop-us-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-jonathan-zittrain-comment-is-free-guardian-co-uk-19-april-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}