Academic-Library Groups Still Oppose Modified Software-Licensing Law

Academic-library groups say they are still opposed to a model law intended to make software-licensing agreements uniformly enforceable in all 50 states, even though the legal group that drafted the measure eased some of its provisions last month. The library groups say the changes to the law, called the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, or Ucita, are a step in the right direction, but do not go far enough to protect scholars' interests.

The model law, which individual

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