[comp.sources.d] Shrink-wrap licenses are almost certainly unenforceable

brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (02/21/90)

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