The article provides an overview of the legal relationships in Open Source Structures. It shows that – as within all software development and distribution models – different persons with different “functions” (developer, distributor, and user) can conclude contracts concerning various objects of agreement. 1 Legal Aspects of Open Source Software The terms “Open Source Software” or “Free Softwar...

Internet design principles do not focus on commercial service provisioning. Hence, support mechanisms need to be implemented in order to ensure that value added services can be offered in a competitive context. Commercial product offerings base on contractual agreements concluded between service providers and service customers. Contracts need to reflect business-driven requirements originating ...

knowing of formation of a legal rule is an efficient way to recognizing and assessing of that rule. anticipatory breach doctrine became apparent in common law when the court in hochster versus de la tour case (1980), hold that a party could breach an executor contract prior to the performance date and injured party entitle to sue at once. before it, courts had made a negative answer to this mat...

in this paper pre-implantation embryo from the viewpoint of civil liability of the medical group, third parties, effect of conditions of contract on change of civil liability and blood money will be discussed. the islamic jurists and lawyers have investigated all of them from the viewpoint of lawfulness and unlawfulness of this case itself, the method of creation and transfer and its jurisprude...

Contract signing protocol is a new way of interacting two parties online though communication devices. Since communication is done though internet or media so authentication is required between these parties to check the contract is done between right parties or not. The main aim of contract signing is fairness between parties. Although there are various techniques implemented to provide authen...

not well distinguishing between question fact and question of law, by lawyers, experts and judges produces unfavorable consequences on civil procedural system, from which substantially, our current judicial system suffers. our judges don't know well their duty to the wrong qualifications made in the pleas; solely being damages, the subject of plea, they rapidly assign the whole case to the...

Easy access of Internet has revolutionized the concept of electronic commerce. As the bulk of business transactions shifts to electronic media, we have business collaborations being negotiated between previously unknown partners. Thus a Contract is the key to a successful business relationship. We foresee a need for a unified contract management in order to achieve coherent business operations....

By tradition, Australian industrial relations has been regulated by industrial awards and collective agreements made by, or under the auspices of, industrial tribunals. The central parties to these agreements and awards were employers and trade unions. The individual employment contract between employer and employee was subject to these collective arrangements which, generally speaking, set the...