SRCH Overview
The Clearing House tracks the governmental regulation of software development.Links
About
The Software Regulation Clearing House tracks the governmental regulation of software development. It collects in one place information about statutes, administrative regulations, and case law--Federal, State, and, to a lesser extent, Foreign--that either mandate or prohibit particular features or functionality in software. Some examples include the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), the Broadcast Flag, and proposed Spyware legislation.
Coming soon to this site, legal experts will interpret the meaning of the regulations presented, and software experts will apply those interpretations to assess the impact of the laws. Everything on this site is publicly available and constantly updated to reflect changes in the law. Two intended audiences for this information are legal scholars who are looking generally at state regulation of software and software developers who are interested in how law impacts their activities.
Credits and Affiliations
The Clearing House was conceived of by Paul Ohm. He is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the site. Support for the site has been provided by Phil Weiser, Brad Bernthal, Jill Rennert, Jill Van Matre, and Anna Noschese. Research assistance was provided by Karam Saab and Kaleb Sieh.
This website was launched with help from a generous grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The website interface and design was created by Insight Designs. Peter Jones lent technical support. Paul Ohm handles the day to day maintenance and upgrades. This website runs on Ruby on Rails.
This project is affiliated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Coders' Rights project.
Copyright Notice
All of the government-generated content hosted on this website
is available in the public domain. All other content is
licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Privacy Notice
We collect only the information that Ruby on Rails and Apache collects by default. In the future, we plan to collect less and prepare a more detailed privacy policy.