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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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86 sections with “limited rights”: the first 40

  • FAR 27.404-2 Limited rights data and restricted computer software.
    …clause at 52.227-14, Rights in Data—General, enables the contractor to protect qualifying limited rights data and restricted computer software by withholding the data from the Government and instead delivering form, fit, and function data. …
  • FAR 52.227-15 Representation of Limited Rights Data and Restricted Computer Software.
    As prescribed in 27.409(c), insert the following provision: Representation of Limited Rights Data and Restricted Computer Software (DEC 2007) (a) This solicitation sets forth the Government's known delivery requirements for data (as defin…
  • FAR 27.404-1 Unlimited rights data.
    The Government acquires unlimited rights in the following data except for copyrighted works as provided in 27.404-3: (a) Data first produced in the performance of a contract (except to the extent the data constitute minor modifications to …
  • FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data—General.
    …ludes the source code, algorithms, processes, formulas, and flow charts of the software. Limited rights means the rights of the Government in limited rights data as set forth in the Limited Rights Notice of paragraph (g)(3) if included in …
  • FAR 52.227-20 Rights in Data—SBIR Program.
    …ludes the source code, algorithms, processes, formulas, and flow charts of the software. Limited rights data means data (other than computer software) developed at private expense that embody trade secrets or are commercial or financial an…
  • DFARS 227.7103-4 License rights.
    …a pertaining to items, components, or processes developed exclusively at private expense (limited rights). They may not restrict the Government's rights in items, components, or processes developed exclusively at Government expense (unlimit…
  • DFARS 227.7103-5 Government rights.
    The standard license rights that a licensor grants to the Government are unlimited rights, government purpose rights, or limited rights. Those rights are defined in the clause at 252.227-7013, Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial …
  • DFARS 227.7203-5 Government rights.
    …andard license rights in computer software that a licensor grants to the Government are unlimited rights, government purpose rights, or restricted rights. The standard license in computer software documentation conveys unlimited rights. Tho…
  • DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … release, perform, display, or disclose that data for United States Government purposes. Limited rights means the rights to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, or disclose technical data, in whole or in part, within the Gove…
  • DFARS 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
    …nerated in the performance of a phase I, II, or III SBIR/STTR contract or subcontract. Unlimited rights means rights to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, or disclose computer software or computer software documentation in …
  • DFARS 252.227-7018 Rights in Other Than Commercial Technical Data and Computer Software—Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
    … release, perform, display, or disclose that data for United States Government purposes. Limited rights means the rights to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, or disclose technical data, in whole or in part, within the Gove…
  • DFARS 252.227-7022 Government rights (unlimited).
    As prescribed at 227.7107-1(a), use the following clause: Government Rights (Unlimited) (MAR 1979) The Government shall have unlimited rights, in all drawings, designs, specifications, notes and other works developed in the performance of…
  • FAR 27.407 Rights to technical data in successful proposals.
    …use at 52.227-23, Rights to Proposal Data (Technical), allows the Government to acquire unlimited rights to technical data in successful proposals. Pursuant to the clause, the prospective contractor is afforded the opportunity to specifical…
  • DFARS 227.7104-2 Rights in SBIR or STTR data.
    …gy Transfer Program, the Government obtains the following standard license rights: (1) Unlimited rights in the technical data and computer software listed in paragraph (c)(1) of the clause. (2) SBIR/STTR data rights in all other technical…
  • FAR 27.401 Definitions.
    …ludes the source code, algorithms, processes, formulas, and flow charts of the software. Limited rights means the rights of the Government in limited rights data as set forth in a Limited Rights Notice. Limited rights data means data, oth…
  • FAR 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses
    …nvolving cosponsored research and development in which a clause providing for less than unlimited right has been authorized (see 27.408). (2) If an agency determines, in accordance with 27.404-2(b), to adopt the alternate definition of “Li…
  • FAR 52.227-17 Rights in Data—Special Works.
    …ration, such as financial, administrative, cost or pricing, or management information. Unlimited rights means the rights of the Government to use, disclose, reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform …
  • DFARS 252.227-7020 Rights in special works.
    …bilities of the computer software or provide instructions for using the software. (5) “Unlimited rights” means the rights to use, modify, reproduce, perform, display, release, or disclose a work in whole or in part, in any manner, and for …
  • FAR 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
    …m only one responsible source, or, for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, from only one or a limited number of responsible sources, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, full and open competition need not …
  • FAR 27.404 Basic rights in data clause.
    …Rights in Data—General, and also the use of the provision at 52.227-15, Representation of Limited Rights Data and Restricted Computer Software.
  • FAR 27.406-1 General.
    …ot require that a contractor provide the Government, as a condition of the procurement, unlimited rights in data that qualify as limited rights data or restricted computer software. Rather, form, fit, and function data may be furnished with…
  • FAR 52.227-22 Major System—Minimum Rights.
    … 1987) Notwithstanding any other provision of this contract, the Government shall have unlimited rights in any technical data, other than computer software, developed in the performance of this contract and relating to a major system or su…
  • FAR 52.227-23 Rights to Proposal Data (Technical).
    …twithstanding the conditions of any notice appearing thereon, the Government shall have unlimited rights (as defined in the Rights in Data—General clause contained in this contract) in and to the technical data contained in the proposal dat…
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    …thout limitations.” If a VECP is accepted, the Contractor hereby grants the Government unlimited rights in the VECP and supporting data, except that, with respect to data qualifying and submitted as limited rights technical data, the Gover…
  • FAR 52.248-3 Value Engineering—Construction.
    …thout limitations.” If a VECP is accepted, the Contractor hereby grants the Government unlimited rights in the VECP and supporting data, except that, with respect to data qualifying and submitted as limited rights technical data, the Gover…
  • DFARS 252.227-7025 Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Government-Furnished Information Marked with Restrictive Legends.
    …h the Contractor with technical data, the terms “covered Government support contractor,” “limited rights,” and “Government purpose rights” are defined in the clause at 252.227-7013, Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products an…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …efinition, the terms “buildings, structures, or other real property” include, but are not limited to, improvements of all types, such as bridges, dams, plants, highways, parkways, streets, subways, tunnels, sewers, mains, power lines, cemet…
  • FAR 27.404-5 Unauthorized, omitted, or incorrect markings.
    …or incorrect notices. (1) Data delivered under a contract containing the clause without a limited rights notice or restricted rights notice, and without a copyright notice, will be presumed to have been delivered with unlimited rights, and …
  • FAR 27.408 Cosponsored research and development activities.
    … segregable, the contracting officer may limit the acquisition of, or acquire less than unlimited rights to, any data developed and delivered under the contract. Agencies may regulate the use of this authority in their supplements. Lesser r…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …ideration. Such individuals include: (A) Owners of closely held corporations, members of limited liability companies, partners, sole proprietors, or members of their immediate families; and (B) Persons who are contractually committed to a…
  • FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons.
    …e liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined. Employee means an employee of the Contractor directly engaged in the performance of work under the contract who has other than a…
  • DFARS 252.227-7017 Identification and Assertion of Use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions.
    …g computer software documentation, or computer software to be delivered with other than unlimited rights. For contracts to be awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program or Small Business Technology Transfer Program …
  • FAR 27.305-3 Securing invention rights acquired by the Government.
    …or to the Government with the consent of the contractor. When the Government's rights are limited to a license, there should be a confirmatory instrument to that effect. (b) Agencies may, by supplemental instructions, develop suitable assi…
  • FAR 27.405-1 Special works.
    …ortions thereof) that are primarily for the production or compilation of data (other than limited rights data or restricted computer software) for the Government's own use, or when there is a specific need to limit distribution and use of t…
  • FAR 49.603-4 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, with settlement limited to fee.
    …ttlement of cost-reimbursement contracts that are completely terminated, if settlement is limited to fee.] (a) This supplemental agreement settles the amount of fee due under the contract, terminated in its entirety by Notice of Terminatio…
  • DFARS 207.106 Additional requirements for major systems.
    …o meet the agency's mobilization needs; or (3) The Government is otherwise entitled to unlimited rights in technical data. (B) If the contracting officer makes a determination, under paragraphs (b)(1)(A) (1) and (2) of this section, for a…
  • DFARS 227.7103-7 Use and nondisclosure agreement.
    … use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, or disclose technical data subject to limited rights or SBIR/STTR data rights, or computer software subject to restricted rights or SBIR/STTR data rights must be stipulated in an attachmen…
  • DFARS 227.7103-12 Government right to establish conformity of markings.
    …release, performance, display, or disclosure of the marked technical data. For example, a limited rights legend placed on technical data pertaining to items, components, or processes that were developed under a Government contract either ex…
  • DFARS 227.7106 Contracts for special works.
    …ntract requirement. (b) Although the Government obtains an assignment of copyright and unlimited rights in a special work under the clause at 252.227-7020, the contractor retains use and disclosure rights in that work. If the Government ne…
  • DFARS 227.7107-1 Architectural designs and data clauses for architect-engineer or construction contracts.
    …f this subsection and in 227.7107-2, use the clause at 252.227-7022, Government Rights (Unlimited), in solicitations and contracts for architect-engineer services and for construction involving architect-engineer services. (b) When the pur…

FAR (chapter 1)

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Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.