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44 sections with “restricted rights”: the first 40

  • FAR 27.404-2 Limited rights data and restricted computer software.
    …hts 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. (b) Alternate definitio…
  • FAR 52.227-15 Representation of Limited Rights Data and Restricted Computer Software.
    … 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 defined in the cla…
  • FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data—General.
    …s, components, or processes developed at private expense, including minor modifications. Restricted computer software means computer software developed at private expense and that is a trade secret, is commercial or financial and confident…
  • DFARS 227.7203-5 Government rights.
    …t 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. Those rights are defined in the clause at 252.227…
  • DFARS 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
    …computer software under the definition of “commercial computer software” of this clause. Restricted rights apply only to other than commercial computer software and mean the Government's rights to— (1) Use a computer program with one comp…
  • 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.
    …computer software under the definition of “commercial computer software” of this clause. Restricted rights apply only to other than commercial computer software and mean the Government's rights to— (1) Use a computer program with one comp…
  • FAR 52.227-20 Rights in Data—SBIR Program.
    …that embody trade secrets or are commercial or financial and confidential or privileged. Restricted computer software means computer software developed at private expense and that is a trade secret, is commercial or financial and confident…
  • DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …e Government's rights to use, release, or disclose the following technical data should be restricted— 1 If the assertion is applicable to items, components or processes developed at private expense, identify both the data and each such ite…
  • FAR 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses
    …ccordance with 27.404-2(d), if a contracting officer determines it is necessary to obtain restricted computer software, use the clause with its Alternate III. Any greater or lesser rights regarding the use, reproduction, or disclosure of re…
  • DFARS 227.7104-2 Rights in SBIR or STTR data.
    …g. SBIR/STTR data rights provide the Government limited rights in such technical data and restricted rights in such computer software during the SBIR/STTR data protection period commencing on the date of contract award and ending 20 years a…
  • DFARS 227.7203-4 License rights.
    … (e.g., a software sub-routine that performs a specific function). Contractors may assert restricted rights in a segregable portion of computer software which otherwise qualifies for restricted rights under the clause at 252.227-7014, Right…
  • FAR 27.401 Definitions.
    …secrets or are commercial or financial and confidential or privileged (see 27.404-2(b)). Restricted computer software means computer software developed at private expense and that is a trade secret, is commercial or financial and confident…
  • FAR 27.404-1 Unlimited rights data.
    …he extent the data constitute minor modifications to data that are limited rights data or restricted computer software). (b) Form, fit, and function data delivered under contract. (c) Data (except as may be included with restricted comput…
  • FAR 27.405-3 Commercial computer software.
    … Federal law. Additional or lesser rights may be negotiated using the guidance concerning restricted rights as set forth in 27.404-2(d), or the clause at 52.227-19. If greater rights than the minimum rights identified in the clause at 52.22…
  • DFARS 252.227-7025 Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Government-Furnished Information Marked with Restrictive Legends.
    …ion, the terms “covered Government support contractor,” “government purpose rights,” and “restricted rights” are defined in the clause at 252.227-7014, Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Sof…
  • DFARS 227.7103-7 Use and nondisclosure agreement.
    … 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 attachment to the use and nondisclosure agreement. (2) For an intended release, d…
  • FAR 27.404 Basic rights in data clause.
    …and also the use of the provision at 52.227-15, Representation of Limited Rights Data and Restricted Computer Software.
  • FAR 27.404-5 Unauthorized, omitted, or incorrect markings.
    … 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 the Government assumes no…
  • FAR 27.406-1 General.
    …ition 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 unlimited rights instead of the qualifying data, or the quali…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment. Restricted business operations means business operations in Sudan that include power production activities, mineral extraction activities, oil-related…
  • DFARS 252.227-7016 Rights in Bid or Proposal Information.
    …ncluding technical data or computer software, and to permit others to do so, shall not be restricted in any manner if such information has been released or disclosed to the Government or to other persons without restrictions other than a re…
  • FAR 27.404-6 Inspection of data at the contractor's facility.
    …er) for the purpose of verifying a contractor's assertion regarding the limited rights or restricted rights status of the data, or for evaluating work performance under the contract. This right may be exercised up to 3 years after acceptanc…
  • DFARS 209.505-4 Obtaining access to proprietary information.
    …ty asserting restrictions on limited rights technical data, commercial technical data, or restricted rights computer software. The contracting officer is not required to obtain copies of these agreements or to ensure that they are properly …
  • DFARS 227.7203-9 Copyright.
    …tiate copyright licenses for computer software that provide less rights than the standard restricted rights in computer software license. For computer software documentation, do not negotiate a copyright license that provides less rights th…
  • DFARS 227.7203-12 Government right to establish conformity of markings.
    …losure of the marked computer software or computer software documentation. For example, a restricted rights legend placed on computer software developed under a Government contract either exclusively at Government expense or with mixed fund…
  • DFARS 252.227-7017 Identification and Assertion of Use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions.
    … to use, release, or disclose the following technical data or computer software should be restricted: 1 For technical data (other than computer software documentation) pertaining to items, components, or processes developed at private expe…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …vernment; or (ii) Has been classified by the Department of Energy as privately generated restricted data following the procedures in 10 CFR 1045.21; and (2) Must be protected against unauthorized disclosure according to Executive Order 12…
  • FAR 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
    … (28) 52.225-6, Trade Agreements Certificate. (29) 52.225-20, Prohibition on Conducting Restricted Business Operations in Sudan—Certification. (30) 52.225-25, Prohibition on Contracting with Entities Engaging in Certain Activities or Tra…
  • FAR 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.
    …itations containing the clause at 52.225-5. (xxiii) 52.225-20, Prohibition on Conducting Restricted Business Operations in Sudan—Certification. This provision applies to all solicitations. (xxiv) 52.225-25, Prohibition on Contracting with…
  • FAR 3.104-4 Disclosure, protection, and marking of contractor bid or proposal information and source selection information.
    …ral agency procurement and notify the recipient that the disclosure of the information is restricted by 41 U.S.C. chapter 21; (2) The withholding of information from, or restricting its receipt by, the Comptroller General in the course of …
  • FAR 17.802 Policy.
    …er under a blanket purchase agreement; and (iii) Information identified by an offeror as restricted from duplication, use, or disclosure—in whole or in part—for any purpose other than to evaluate the reverse auction participant's price or …
  • FAR 25.702-4 Waiver.
    …for the President to waive the prohibition on contracting with this offeror that conducts restricted business operations in Sudan, including consideration of foreign policy aspects identified in consultation(s) pursuant to 25.702-4(b); (vi…
  • FAR 27.405-1 Special works.
    …re 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 the data or to obtain in…
  • FAR 27.408 Cosponsored research and development activities.
    …e contract, any resulting data may be treated under this clause as limited rights data or restricted computer software in accordance with 27.404-2(c) or (d), as applicable; or if this treatment is inconsistent with the purpose of the contra…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …ng PRB to retirees. The assets shall be segregated in the trust, or otherwise effectively restricted, so that they cannot be used by the employer for other purposes. (C) Be calculated in accordance with generally accepted actuarial princip…
  • DFARS 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    … for Fiscal Year 2008 (Pub. L. 110-181). (R) Use the clause at 252.225-7026, Acquisition Restricted to Products or Services from Afghanistan, as prescribed in 225.7703-4(c), to comply with section 886 of the National Defense Authorization …
  • DFARS 227.7103-1 Policy.
    … reproduce, perform, display, or disclose technical data pertaining to those items may be restricted. (e) As provided in 10 U.S.C. 3208, solicitations for major systems development contracts shall not require offerors to submit proposals t…
  • DFARS 227.7103-17 Overseas contracts with foreign sources.
    …ther Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services, when the Government requires the unrestricted right to use, modify, reproduce, perform, display, release, or disclose all technical data to be delivered under the contract. Do not use t…
  • DFARS 227.7104-1 Policy.
    …ter software or technical data pertaining to those items, components, or processes may be restricted. (c) Consistent with the guidance in this section, 227.7103-10(a)(5), 227.7203-10(a)(5), and other acquisition guidance applicable to SBIR…
  • DFARS 227.7107 Contracts for architect-engineer services.
    This section sets forth policies and procedures, pertaining to data, copyrights, and restricted designs unique to the acquisition of construction and architect-engineer services.

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