Re: INFO/NYT: Controversial Software Protection Law Passed in Virginia

From: Cem Kaner <kaner[_at_]kaner.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:47:56 -0800

On 3/20/2000, Rod Dixon <rod[_at_]cyberspaces.org> wrote:
>
> Would someone post a URL directing me to a thoughtful piece presenting
> legal arguments challenging UCITA. Most of the material I have read
> so far (on anti-UCITA) seems to be heavy on policy and a little light
> on law or legal reasoning.

I'm writing a paper called "Software Engineering and UCITA" for the Computer Law Journal. Ping me in a week or so and I can email you (MS Word or RTF format) the draft that I will have sent to the Journal.

David Rice and Mark Lemley are the two main scholarly writers in the field, although there are plenty of references in David Pels' and my book, BAD SOFTWARE (Chapter 7 discusses current consumer law of software; the Appendix discusses Article 2B). Most of my writing has been to try to make clear what the bill actually says, what the implications are, and to provide examples of current law to put the policy choices being made by NCCUSL in perspective.


Cem Kaner, J.D., Ph.D.
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<kaner[_at_]kaner.com>

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Author (with Falk & Nguyen) of TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE (2nd Ed, VNR) Author (with David Pels) of BAD SOFTWARE (Wiley, 1998)

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