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open source
philosophy about free redistribution and access to a product
Creative Commons license
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
GNU Lesser General Public License
free software license scheme based on GPL that allows a piece of software to be used in proprietary software
Motion Picture Association
trade organization representing major American film studios
smart contract
computer program or transaction on a decentralized platform
electronic signature
legally binding signature executed by electronic means
information technology law
concerns the law of information technology, including computing and the Internet
Q1131681
free software license based on the AGPLv1 and GPLv3
free license
type of license used for open content or open software
crypto-anarchism
thumb|Parallel Polis#Use in cryptoanarchism|Parallel Polis, or the Institute of cryptoanarchy in [[Prague, 2024]]
decentralized autonomous organization
computer network organization model
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
set of security requirements for credit card processors
eIDAS
The eIDAS Regulation (for "electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services") is an EU regulation with the stated purpose of governing "electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions". It passed in 2014 and its provisions came into effect between 2016 and 2018.
CeCILL
CeCILL (from CEA CNRS INRIA Logiciel Libre) is a free software license adapted to both international and French legal matters, in the spirit of and retaining compatibility with the GNU General Public License (GPL).
deep link
type of hyperlink
European Union Public Licence
free software license
Return merchandise authorization
part of product return process
regulation of artificial intelligence
policy, law and regulation on the development and use of artificial intelligence
clean-room design
copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the original design
digital evidence
evidential information stored or transmitted in digital form
open source
freely available source code, design documents or content source for possible modification and redistribution to the public
artificial intelligence and copyright
copyright law in the use of AI
digital inheritance
Passing down of digital assets after a person's death
Internet taxes
financial levy on Internet-based services
trust service provider
entity providing digital certificates
Lauri Love
Finnish-British activist charged extraterritorially with stealing data from United States Government computers
warrant canary
method of indirect notification of a subpoena, informing users that there has not been a secret subpoena as of a particular date; if the canary is not updated/removed, users are to assume that the host has been served with such a subpoena
Shrink wrap contract
contract
regulation of algorithms
government regulation
Open Music Model
economic and technological framework which foresees the playback of prerecorded music as a service
data haven
refuge for uninterrupted or unregulated data
search neutrality
principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance
information privacy law
law that governs the processing of personal data
Computational law
legal informatics concerned with the automation of legal reasoning
Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016
EU directive
qualified electronic signature
EU-compliant electronic signature
Platform for Internet Content Selection
format for rating Internet content
gpl-violations.org
gpl-violations.org is a not-for-profit project founded and led by Harald Welte in 2004. It works to make sure software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) is not used in ways prohibited by the license.
digital commons
cultural and economic assets that exist in digital form and are part of the knowledge commons; digital resource managed and governed by a community of producers and users according to jointly-developed governance rules
cyber-security regulation
government mandated computer security
Law of the Horse
legal term