Re: Worm out of database agreement?

From: bernard gerdelman <attorney[_at_]i1.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:25:07 -0500

Ari Kahan <akahan[_at_]netcom.com> wrote:
>
> All the talk of preemption lately has made me giddy. I'm curious
> whether folks think that Feist makes database licenses unenforceable,
> as preempted by copyright law.

The 7th Circuit dealt with this to some extent in Pro CD v. Zeidenberg and determined that such a claim under a shrinkwrap database license agreement was not preempted.

Bernard Gerdelman
Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C.
165 N. Meramec, Ste. 600
St. Louis, Missouri
attorney[_at_]i1.net Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 13:48:30 GMT

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