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Ciarán O’Riordan recently gave three webinars (videos below) on new EU software legislation:

1. Cyber Resilience Act
2. AI Act
3. Product Liability Directive

Part of OpenChain’s webinars series, these webinars are for a global audience and don’t assume knowledge of the EU’s legislation and procedures.

In different measures, these webinars cover:

• General content (obligations) and objectives of the new law
• Procedural status, and what’s next
• How regulation affects FOSS differently (our business models, our collaborative development)
• The FOSS-specific clauses that are in each of these legal texts
• Compliance for people outside the EU
• Recommendations for other countries considering similar legislation
• How the FOSS ecosystem participates in legislative procedures

These pieces of legislation were mostly developed between 2022 and early 2024, and the policy resources of the EU’s FOSS ecosystem were thus divided between these procedures while also working on the Data Act, Digital Markets Act, Interoperable Europe Act and others.  In addition to participating directly in the legislative procedures, the we had to create collaborative structures to maximise our efficiency and to hopefully emerge with a stronger, more effective team to continue the policy work of the FOSS ecosystem in the coming years.

Webinar #1: The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

Webinar #2: The AI Act

Webinar #3: The Product Liability Directive (PLD)

Again, we’d like to thank Shane Coughlan of OpenChain. There may be others in their OpenChain webinars that would be of interest to you.