If blocking shop bots is as simple as posting a mandatory user agreement on a website, the question arises whether this result is acceptable and desirable. This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, enforceability of contracts that restrict shop bots robot restriction contracts will aid in achieving economic efficiency,...
Now UCITA, Now You Don't A Bankruptcy Practitioner's Observations on the Proposed Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act In 2004, we often take for granted the magic wrought by computers. While omputers have made many machines (also, businesses and industries) disappear, so too has the primary legislation...
At the annual meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws NCCUSL in Washington, D.C., this August, the president of the conference, K. King Burnett, issued a letter to all commissioners. The letter announced the NCCUSL Executive Board decision to discharge the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act...
The Vermont Legislature has passed HB 148, which would enact a version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act supporting the use of electronic records and signatures. The bill's passage will enhance insurers' ability to conduct the business of insurance electronically, according to the...
Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions AFFECT has announced the appointment of Robert E. Hirshon, immediate past president of the American Bar Association ABA, as national counsel. AFFECT is a broad-based national coalition of consumers, retail and manufacturing businesses, financial institutions, technology professionals, and librarians opposed to passage of the...
LexisNexis (Dayton, OH) division Matthew Bender has produced E-Commerce and Communications: Transactions in Digital Information (Oct., '02), a looseleaf volume that covers the fields of e-commerce and communications, with a focus on intellectual property, commercial and communications law in cyberspace. Editorial includes information on Internet...
LexisNexis has recently released the latest Matthew Bender treatise, E-Commerce and Communications: Transactions in Digital Information, which focuses on the collision of intellectual property, commercial, and communications law in cyberspace, and new statutes such as the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act UCITA and the Uniform...
LexisNexis has released a new Matthew Bender treatise on electronic commerce and communications by Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP's Stephen Y. Chow. The treatise, E-Commerce and Communications: Transactions in Digital Information, addresses the collision of intellectual property, commercial, and communications law in cyberspace and on...
E-Commerce and Communications: Transactions in Digital Information, produced by Matthew Bender, a unit of Lexis Nexis (Dayton, OH), is a new treatise that focuses on the interaction among intellectual property, commercial and communications law in cyberspace and on new statutes such as the Uniform Computer Information...
Some readers think corporations have the right to stifle criticsor unfavorable comments about their products ED FOSTER RECENTLY I POSED the question of whether First Amendment freedomscould get lost in the fine print of end-user license agreements. Fromthe response I've seen from some readers, I fear the answer may beyes....
READERS WRITE - and, as usual, they've got things to say. Afterthe Jan. 7 column in which I suggested that backers of UCITA werelike weasels - except that weasels don't really eat their young - onereader responded, "Actually, they have been known to. Weasels, as apart of the mink family,...
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has posted its legislative scorecard for 2002 on its web site at www.namic.org. The scorecard tracks and provides chronological updates on all legislation pertaining to the core group of issues that frame NAMIC's 2002 national state legislative agenda. The...
For many people the phrase "public policy" is synonymous with the word "politics" and "politics" is a four-letter word. But each of us experiences the results of public policy decisions on a daily basis. Sometimes it is through the fallout of laws such a UCITA. Other times it is through...
A draft committee has proposed some changes, but the old, uglyUCITA still lurks below the surface ED FOSTER I GUESS I'D LIKEN the recently proposed changes to UCITA UniformComputer Information Transaction Act to putting a bit of makeup onFrankenstein and then telling people not to worry when he's turnedloose. What...
But opponents welcome ban on remote disabling The drafters of the controversial UCITA software licensing lawhave done an about-face on some of its key provisions, includingrecommending a ban on remote system shut-offs by software vendors.But the changes don't appear to go far enough to win support frombusinesses fighting state-bystate adoption...
CAUCUS--the association for hightech procurement professionals--will hold its annual conference at the Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa at Walt Disney World in Orlando on Sept. 5-7. Most of the presentations will be delivered by high-tech procurement professionals. On this year's agenda: ...
While the insurance industry is concerned about the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, there is another problem NCCUSL has generated in some amendments to an existing uniform law of its creation, Article 9 of the...
A new code that could be adopted as law in most states threatens to take away schoolteachers' traditional fair use rights to criticize or copy snippets of copyrighted digital material, opponents of the code said at a recent forum sponsored by the Washington Legal Foundation. ...
Some issues never go away. They evolve, sometimes in unexpected ways. Here's an update on several issues we've covered recently ... recycling, UCITA, security and power. The number of personal computers in landfills has been on the rise. It was a...
The Year 2000 saw some dramatic advances in technology law. Two of the most important of these new laws are E-Sign, or the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, which governs electronic signatures, and UCITA, or the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act, which governs software license agreements. ...
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