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From: P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:54:15 -0400
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+<!--#set var="title" value="Legal Validity of Software Contracts" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/includes/header.html" -->
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+Legal Validity of Software Contracts
+====================================
+
+This is a presentation that I gave in a law-related course at the New Jersey
+Institute of Technology (NJIT) in the Spring of 2012.
+
+In the presentation, I define software contracts (a.k.a. "end-user license
+agreements", "software license agreements", or simply "licenses") and explain
+the history of software copyright law and contracts.  I then examine the
+disputed legal validity of software contracts in three main areas: assent to
+terms (including "shrink wrap" and "click wrap" contracts), ownership of copies
+(the "licensed, not sold" argument), and conscionability and preemption.
+
+The presentation refers to statutory and case law in the United States, but the
+concepts should apply to almost any jurisdiction.
+
+Slides
+------
+
+The following are the slides I prepared for the presentation:
+
+  * [OpenDocument Format](software-contracts.odp)
+  * [Portable Document Format](software-contracts.pdf)
+
+Included in the OpenDocument version is the script to the presentation (in
+LibreOffice, look in the "Notes" tab).
+
+Many reader programs render stripes in the slide background of the PDF file.
+This is due to [a bug][bug-lp] [in cairo][bug-fdo] which has been fixed in a
+version newer than that which I used.
+
+[bug-lp]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/164233
+[bug-fdo]: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47706
+
+Copyright
+---------
+
+Copyright &copy; 2012 Patrick "P. J." M<span class="super">c</span>Dermott
+
+All works related to this workshop, including this document, the flyer, the
+notes, and the session records may be used under the terms of the
+[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license][cc-by-sa-3.0].
+
+[cc-by-sa-3.0]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
+
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