Some have recently argued that corporate executives face increased risk of criminal liability under the SarbanesOxley Act of 2002 (SOX) if their companies develop and distribute code licensed under the...
This paper from the ISEAL Alliance and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Geneva summarizes the findings of two legal opinions regarding the ability of governments to reference...
Chinese technology executives, government officials, and members of its research community are debating how far to push the country’s strategy for promoting technology standards at home and abroad.
...determine whether firms actually comply with those codes. Some multinational corporations have responded to the demands of angry and skeptical publics by volunteering to respect a code of their own...
The global trade regime is facing intense criticism for its association with sweatshop conditions of work and terms of employment. Groups that considered intolerable the absence of labor concerns in...
...to the authors of the report, such a standard would allow election management systems to communicate seamlessly and share data to create “a more accurate, cost-effective, and accessible election process...
...speaking, their position is that real progress in mechanically-assisted systems verification comes, and will continue to come, from the development and application of particular tools and logics for those tools....
...patent examiners only have about 20 hours to evaluate whether an invention deserves a 20-year grant of monopoly rights that will shape the future of an industry and fundamental research....
...enterprises or in minimizing the needed investment for maintaining complex systems. Current research results show that there exist common practices to be shared among public sector organisations and private sector...
The Internet offers a model of minimal governance to ensure interoperability. If, as Lawrence Lessig suggests, code is law, then standards bodies are legislative bodies. Pursuing this analogy further, in...