UCC2B  Uniform Commercial Code (draft) — Licenses The Key Players and Their Web sites

Compiled by Carol Ebbinghouse, Western State University


Official UCC site(s)

Latest versions of the UCC 2B provisions may be downloaded from the following sites:
www.law.upenn.edu/library/ulc/ucc2b/ucc2bamg.htm
www.law.upenn.edu/library/ulc/ulc.htm#ucc2b
www.law.uh.edu/ucc2b
www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ucc2b/ucc2bamg.htm
 
 

Other web sites with outstanding coverage of UCC 2B

Carol Kunze's web site collecting UCC 2B documents and news articles on UCC 2B:
www.webcom.com/software/issues/guide/index.html
www.softwareindustry.org/issues/guide

Cem Kaner's web site on consumer issues with UCC 2B
www.badsoftware.com

Ed Foster, InfoWorld Electric
www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/foster/links/article2b.htm
 
 

Conference:  "Intellectual Property and Contract Law in the Information Age:  The Impact of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code on the Future of Transactions in Information and Electronic Commerce,"

April 23-25, 1998, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. 

Conference papers and post-conference documents are available on the web:  http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b
 
 

Library, Consumer and Related Associations

The American Association of Law Libraries Washington Office
www.aallnet.org
www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash/
The Washington Office monitors legislative, judicial and regulatory activities and represents the views of the AALL in accordance with its Government Relations Policy and the resolutions endorsed y the AALL Executive Board or the membership.

American Law Institute (ALI)
www.ali.org

The American Library Association's Washington Office
www.ala.org/washoff
www.ala.org/washoff/ipinfo.html
Tracks fair use, UCC-2b, WIPO copyright treaty, and federal and state proposed legislation relating to copyright, as well as filing amicus (friend of the court) briefs in important cases dealing with intellectual property and access to information.

Association of Research Libraries
www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

CPT Project
www.essential.org/cpt/ucc/ucc.html
The Consumer Project on Technology is directed by James Love and operates under the Center for Responsive Law which is Ralph Nader's umbrella organization.

Digital Future Coalition
www.dfc.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org

National Writer's Union
www.nwu.org/
Note that the web site includes letters from authors and photographers decrying the changes in the author/creator/publisher relationship, and other elements of UCC 2B which create innumerable problems and conflicts with current customs of the trade, contracts for works-for-hire, etc.

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
www.nccusl.org

Society for Information Management
www.webcom.com/softeare/issues/guide/docs/simposit.html

Special Libraries Association
www.sla.org/govt/