The Compliance Store v. Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, — F.3d —, 2010 WL 4056112 (5th Cir. October 18, 2010) A federal court in Texas has decided a case that could have notable implications for both providers and users of software. The court took a narrow view of the rights that licensees of software have to authorize [...]
Posts Tagged ‘software’
Customer violated software license by letting attorneys use application
October 27th, 2010
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Vernor v. Autodesk: does it matter in an age of cloud computing?
September 10th, 2010
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Today the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in the case of Vernor v. Autodesk [PDF], making an important ruling about copyright, software and the first sale doctrine. At a fundamental level, however, one could wonder whether the case is all that big a deal, since the first sale doctrine concerns rights that the owner of [...]
CFAA requires intent to cause harm, not merely intent to transmit
July 17th, 2008
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Kalow & Springnut, LLP v. Commence Corporation, 2008 WL 2557506 (D.N.J. June 23, 2008) The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. §1030 et seq. creates civil liability for anyone who “knowingly causes the transmissions of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct intentionally causes damage without [...]
Software distributor agreement violated New York’s Rule Against Perpetuities
July 2nd, 2008
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McAllister Software Systems, Inc. v. Henry Schein, Inc., No. 06-0093, 2008 WL 922328 (E.D. Mo. April 2, 2008) This case came out about three months ago, and I should have blogged about it then but it slipped by. It’s a quirky holding, what with the Rule Against Perpetuities, so it’s worth going back to pick [...]
New guide to open source issues
February 15th, 2008
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[Update: Thanks, Dad, for alerting me to the typo. It's a relief to know I'll always have at least one reader!] The Software Freedom Law Center, one of the leading influencers in the free and open source software movement, has released what appears to be a helpful guide on understanding the legal issues associated with [...]
