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Article #5293Shrink-wrap licenses are almost certainly unenforceable
From: brnstnd
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 02:30
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 02:30
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In article <51005@microsoft.UUCP> bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce KING) writes: > The shrink-wrap license has been tested in court and has held up. Really? Be more specific. What state? What type of court? A couple of years ago Louisiana legislators realized that shrink-wrap licenses were not enforceable under any current law. So they adopted the Shrink-Wrap License Enforcement Act. A Federal district court struct down the law as unenforceable because it ran contrary to the buyer's rights under the Copyright Act. This is an extremely strong precedent. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!uupsi!cmcl2!stealth.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Shrink-wrap licenses are almost certainly unenforceable Message-ID: <16253:02:30:47@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 02:30:48 GMT References: <1237@utoday.UUCP> <13520@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <51005@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Distribution: usa Organization: IR Lines: 12