Title :
UCITA: a disaster in progress
Author_Institution :
Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL, USA
fDate :
8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.2002.1021944