• DocumentCode
    795489
  • Title

    UCITA: a disaster in progress

  • Author

    Kaner, Cem

  • Author_Institution
    Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL, USA
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Lastpage
    15
  • Abstract
    Software companies are pushing draconian legislation that would abolish century-old doctrines protecting the rights of users of intellectual property. The author argues that by treating a transaction for software as a license rather than a sale, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act would cost us all dearly. UCITA makes enforceable almost any term that the vendor puts into a license contract.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; computer software; contracts; industrial property; legislation; Software companies; UCITA; Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; computer software; contract; intellectual property; law; legislation; license; software vendor; transaction; Contracts; Law; Legal factors; Legislation; Licenses; Manufacturing; Marketing and sales; Packaging; Permission; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2002.1021944
  • Filename
    1021944
    • Link To Document
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