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Background
UCITA is a proposed uniform State law creating
new rules to cover online transactions involving
computer software, multimedia products, data, and
other such products. USACM considers UCITA to be
a threat to the professionalism of software engineering,
the safety of the public, and the quality of software
products. In particular, USACM is concerned UCITA
permits vendors to ban users from comparing software
or publicizing information about unsecure products,
to prohibit reverse engineering, and to allow vendors
to remotely disable software products.
Statement on UCITA
USACM Activities
- USACM sent a letter
to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates
informing them of concerns with the proposed
Uniform Code for Information Transactions Act
(UCITA) currently under consideration. January
30, 2003
- Memo
including critical analysis of NCCUSC changes
to UCITA. August 2, 2002
- The National Conference of Commissioners
on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL)
recently approved a package of
Amendments to UCITA. NCCUSL is funded by
the state governments to draft model legislation
and is very influential with most of those governments.
July 26, 2002
- USACM letter
sent to the Chair of the Florida State House
Committee on Information Technology in response
to a request for comments on the Uniform Computer
Information Transaction Act (UCITA). October
26, 2001
- ACM President and USACM Chair Sends Letter
Objecting to UCITA to State Legislators. The
letter
urges legislators to recognize the severely
negative impact the bill will have on small
entrepreneurs, consultants, and all users of
software. March 3, 2000
- ACM President's article
on UCITA found under the Inside Risks Column
of Communications of the ACM. August 2000
- ACM President's letter
to the NCCUSL urging the Commissioners to oppose
the proposed Uniform Computer Information Transactions
Act (UCITA). July 12, 1999
- Enclosure: Melissa's
Message, by ACM President Barbara Simons
(PDF file, 107 KB, Communications of the
ACM, June 1999).
- USACM letters
to Carlyle C. Ring, Jr., the Chairman of the
NCCUSL Article 2B Drafting Committee, and Professor
Geoffrey Hazard, Jr., the Director of the American
Law Institute urging them to table the re-drafting
of the commercial law project known as proposed
Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code. October
7, 1998
- Background Information:
NCCUSL
Official Site
Drafts
of UCITA legislation, NCCUSL Official Site
Site
by Carol A. Kunze "UCITA Online" with many source
documents on UCITA
Site
by InfoWorld, "UCITA: Summary information"
- Other Information on UCITA:
Letter
from Software Engineering Institute to the NCCUSL
Commissioners
Letter
sent by the Federal Trade Commission to the
NCCUSL Commissioners
Article
about how UCITA can impact software quality
professionals
4CITE: For
a Competitive Inofrmation and Technology Economy:
a broad-based coalition opposing UCITA
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