Journal article
INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW: COMPARATIVE PERSPECITVE: Taking UCITA on the Road: What Lessons Have We Learned?
Roger Williams University Law Review, Vol.7, pp.167-403
01 Oct 2001
Abstract
Introduction In 1999, with a great deal of fanfare, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws completed its work on a new statute designed to bring the Conference - and state law - into the new millennium: the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act or UCITA. Two years and two state enactments later, there are those who argue that UCITA should be the model not only for this country, but for other countries - and regional and international policy makers - to adopt. Should UCITA be an international model? The answer to that question is both "yes" and "no." If one speaks of UCITA as a concept - the concept that there is a need to address a type of transaction whose use is increasing exponentially in importance in today's economy - the transfer of information by contract - then the answer is yes. If one views UCITA as standing for the proposition that a comprehensive and accessible body of law covering information contracts would add the predictability and certainty desired by those engaged extensively in electronic commerce, the answer is yes. And if one views UCITA as a "checklist" of issues that must be confronted in efforts to deal with new information-based transactions (whether those efforts are those of a practitioner in drafting a license or a legislator determining what issues to address next), the answer is again yes. Unfortunately, however, if one views UCITA as a specific body of law, to be enacted substantially as ...
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- Title
- INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW: COMPARATIVE PERSPECITVE: Taking UCITA on the Road: What Lessons Have We Learned?
- Creators
- Amelia H. Boss
- Publication Details
- Roger Williams University Law Review, Vol.7, pp.167-403
- Publisher
- Roger Williams University Law Review Roger Williams University Law Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020535068204721