The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has in the past previously required developers working on projects such as GCC (the Gnu Compiler Collection) to assign its copyrights to the FSF. The logic is that this does make enforcement easier against people…
Moorcrofts Corporate Law, will be extending its charity partnership with SpecialEffect until April 2022. SpecialEffect was appointed as Moorcrofts’ charity of the year in 2019 with the proposal to have the partnership in place for two-years. However, with fundraising heavily…
Renowned Technology Lawyer, expert speaker and author, Andrew Katz has co-authored the newly published book – A Practical Guide to IT Law, alongside his colleagues in the Technology Team at Moorcrofts. It is a comprehensive guide for management professionals, which…
Orcro Limited becomes the UK’s first accredited provider of ISO/IEC 5230:2020 compliance certifications. ISO/IEC 5230:2020 was published by the International Standards Organisation on 14 December 2020 and formalises OpenChain as an international standard. OpenChain is the world’s leading programme for…
The recent global outbreak of coronavirus disease COVID-19 has been making the headlines for weeks and has had an enormous impact on our lives, as well as on global economy. Amongst others, it has emphasised vulnerability of our society to…
Moorcrofts CEO and Head of Tech and IP, Andrew Katz has been named the expert to lead the Open Hardware section of the contract awarded to OpenForum Europe and Fraunhofer ISI to conduct the study on the impact of Open…
Andrew Katz, CEO and Head of Tech and IP at Moorcrofts has been named General Counsel to the new OpenUK Board, which was officially formed this month following a meeting in central London. The new board from the UK’s Open…
It’s great to see that our paper on implementing IT Standards in Open Source Software has now been published. See http://ejlt.org/article/view/709. Andrew Katz comments on the paper I moonlight as a visiting researcher at the University of Skövde in Sweden,…
Andrew Katz, CEO and Head of Tech and IP at Moorcrofts has been named as a member of the Intellectual Property and Open Source Advisory Panel of the United Nations Technology Labs (UNTIL). The aim of the Panel is to…
Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts CEO and Head of Technology will speak at the leading AEA-EAL conference, taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) on May 30 – June 1, 2019. This international Artificial Intelligence conference, entitled ‘AI Beyond the Hype – Benefits,…
Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts CEO and Head of Technology has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at OpenSym 2019, taking place on 20-22 August 2019 in Skövde, Sweden. What is OpenSym 2019? OpenSym 2019, the 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration…
