[39831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Wed Jul 25 11:41:24 2001
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> David Charlap wrote:
> >
> > William Allen Simpson wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, you may have noticed that shrink-wrap licenses are valid in
> > > only two places: Washington (state) and Virginia. This would be a
> > > Federal class action.
> >
> > Didn't the Digital Millennium Copyright Act make shrink-wrap licenses
> > valid nation-wide?
> >
> No.
>
> You are thinking of last year's electronic signatures act -- an act that
> has no signatures, merely "sound, symbol, or process".
You're thinking of UCITA - the proposed revisions to the Universal
Commercial Code. These WOULD make shrink wrap licenses a lot more
powerful and painful.
The good news is that UCITA has to be enacted state-by-state, and an
increasing number of big players (e.g. large, corporate software buyers)
are lining up against UCITA.
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