computer software installation that purports to transfer copyright in works created with the software from the user of the … software to the manufacturer of the software. This Note analyzes the enforceability of this type of contract in the context of …

Discusses the use of open source to provide software for the masses for social capital. This is in contrast to the … current proliferation of social media software like Facebook by commercial enterprises hoping to use social media and biases …

The market for security software has witnessed an unprecedented growth in recent years. A closer examination of this … software market, furnish rigorous arguments for several counterintuitive observations in the real world, and provide managerial …

IS IT WRONG TO ALLOW IDEOLOGY to pervade political decisions on software procurement, or is it inevitable that … normative framework, based upon a broad conception of the democratic principle, to advocate that Free/Libre Open Source Software …

What, exactly, distinguishes a patent on a software innovation from patents on other kinds of innovations? While the … question may appear esoteric at first glance, it is the crucial first step in any empirical study of software patents. The … policy debate over software patents - whether they should be allowed at all, what should qualify, and whether they are used …

protect personal information by installing encryption and data security software. But compared to many other contracts …, software licensing agreements greatly favor vendors, and software vendors draft them in a way that virtually limits all of …

software by these organizations. The authorities, acting alongside Microsoft lawyers, will seize the computers as a part of … with respect to the dissident media and NGOs. Third, this part will look at the issue of software piracy in Russia. Part II … examine the seizure of computers by Russian authorities under the pretext of fighting software piracy. Lastly, this section …

provides a boost for the enforceability of software licenses but the MDY Trio creates two significant complications for open …

The advent and increasing use of free enterprise software presents new challenges and complexities in obtaining optimal … in light of free software availability. We measure the prevalence of pricing thresholds in government procurement … threshold exemptions to acquire free software …

Software is increasingly seen as a policy tool to influence societal concerns such as privacy, freedom of speech and … software. One powerful setting in software is defaults. This article puts forth a framework for how default settings should be … determined. This normative approach towards software settings stands apart from most previous scholarship, which focuses on the …