Publicly Available

Publicly Available

Unclassified “technology” or “software” is published and is thus not “technology” or “software” subject to the Export Administration Regulations, when it has been made available to the public without restrictions upon its further dissemination such as through any of the following:

• Unlimited distribution at a conference, meeting, seminar, trade show, or exhibition, generally accessible to the interested public;
• Public dissemination (i.e., unlimited distribution) in any form (e.g., not necessarily in published form), including posting on the Internet on sites available to the public; or
• Submission of a written composition, manuscript, presentation, computer-readable dataset, formula, imagery, algorithms, or some other representation of knowledge with the intention that such information will be made publicly available if accepted for publication or presentation:

(i) To domestic or foreign co-authors, editors, or reviewers of journals, magazines, newspapers or trade publications;

(ii) To researchers conducting fundamental research; or

(iii) To organizers of open conferences or other open gatherings.