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Presentation: 'FOSS' - Corporate Boon or Burden?

SCL Open Source Software Presentation

Speaker: Richard Kemp, Partner, Kemp Little LLP

• CIO’s boon and GC’s burden
• Issues with FOSS licences
• Why it matters – current cases
• Handling FOSS safely

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Presentation: Open Source in BT

SCL Open Source Software

Speaker: Pete Ratcliffe, Chief Counsel IPR, BT Group Legal

• The BT Lawyers attitude to FOSS
• BT’s FOSS Policies
• What are BT’s experiences with FOSS?
• Releasing Code into the FOSS Community
• The Future of FOSS in BT

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• Richard Kemp is one of the UK's top technology and communications lawyers. He has a particular reputation for developing commercial and innovative legal solutions to the business challenges of technology development, application, implementation and regulation. Richard is ranked in the global top 10 in both the IT and telecoms fields in the Expert Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers - Best of the Best 2008. He has been listed in the Best of the Best series since 2000 and in the top band of UK technology lawyers in the UK legal directories since setting up Kemp & Co in 1997. Richard has participated in teams that have won numerous legal industry awards and sits on the boards and editorial panels of a number of technology law specialist groups. Richard qualified as a solicitor with Clifford-Turner in 1980 after graduating from Cambridge (1977) and from the ULB in Brussels (1979). He established Kemp & Co in 1997, which became Kemp Little LLP, the first UK law firm LLP, in 2001.
• Pete Ratcliffe is BT's Chief Counsel IPR and Head of BT's Agreements & Trademarks Teams. He specialises in Patent Licensing and IT Agreements. He is also the principal architect of BT's 21CN Procurement contracts. He is a Practising Solicitor in England and Wales and also admitted as an Attorney at Law in New York. Before qualifying as a Lawyer Pete had a successful career in Computing where he worked in many roles including Systems Programming, Operations Support Consultant and Performance Engineer on IBM Mainframes computers. He has lived and worked in Singapore, where he was part of the team that developed and built the Singapore Telecom in-house billing system based on BT's CSS System, and also in New York where he studied and worked in preparation for sitting the New York Bar Exam.