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- From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Question => Second hand software
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- References: <1992Dec8.012144.23129@cirrus.com> <18BN02b32eUH01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <bhayden.723912529@teal> <1992Dec10.045327.16364@panix.com> <1992Dec25.115018.17701@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:15:11 GMT
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- >oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
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- >>I thought there was a shrink-wrap case in Louisiana a few years
- >>ago ...
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- >Yes, but Louisiana is a special case. They have a state law that
- >*explicitly* states that "shrink wrap" licenses are valid. The various
- >software publishers haven'y managed to talk any other states into
- >doing that.
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- Yes - and I think the case (Vault v. Quaid) is best known for
- state law preemption by the copyright law (17 USC Section 301).
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- Bruce E. Hayden
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- bhayden@csn.org
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