An introductory course on Industrial Property aiming at explaining how patents, designs and trademarks can be used to protect creative ideas and investments in innovation in Italy and abroad. The course aims at providing the basics of Industrial Property, comprising patents, designs and trademarks.

This course is lead by the famous free software activist - Richard Stallman, founder of GNU and inventor of GPL. We will cover different topics of the hard way to the Free Digital Society. Our subjects are: Human rights in computing, Threats to the Free Digital Society, Software licenses and patents, Licenses to the Works of Authorship.