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UCC Article 2B update 

Hello:

Chris Hoving, Managing Editor, UCC Bulletin/UCC Reporting Service,
recently posted the message below to the UCCLAW-L listserv.  His news is
that submission of _Article 2B - Licensing_ to state legislatures will be
delayed until 1999. 

Hoving's news confirms the report in US Law Week that ALI would try to
delay approval of the Article until 1999:  Citing concerns about the scope
of the April 15 draft -- particularly its coverage of information
resources beyond software products, and its treatment of electronic
contracting -- as well as "technical problems,"  the deputy director of
ALI announced on April 22, 1998 that ALI would delay final approval of
Article 2B until 1999. (Jennifer B. Lucas, Draft Uniform Licensing Law
Hits Snag; ALI Will Delay Vote on Final Draft Until 1999, 66 U.S. Law Week
2644 (1998).) 

Further, Professor Charles R. McManis, leader of an unsuccessful attempt
in 1997 to include copyright preemption language in Article 2B, may try
again to introduce language that preserves in the licensing realm fair use
and other rights granted under copyright law. (For more on this, see
Matthew Kavanaugh, UCC 2B & Federal Preemption, UCCLAW-L, May 4, 1998 <
ucclaw-l@assocdir.wuacc.edu >.)

Please let me know if you have questions or comments.

Rob Richards

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>Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:34 -0400
>From: Chris Hoving <choving@pf.com>
>To: ucclaw-l@assocdir.wuacc.edu
>Subject: 2B - Wait till next year
>
>Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980515085734.007b3510@pf.com>
>
>        Any thought that the National Conference of Commissioners on
>Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") would not wait for 2B^s approval by the full
>American Law Institute ("ALI") and would send it to the states after
>receiving the blessing of the ALI Council in the fall appears to be dead. 
>At the ALI meeting, it was announced that the plan now is for NCCUSL to
>get all of the non-controversial aspects of 2B wrapped up at its meeting
>end of July.  This will allow ALI and NCCUSL to devote full attention next
>year to the controversial parts.  Perhaps mollified by this delay, the
>opponents of the current draft seemed to feel that compromise leading to
>approval of a final draft next year was possible.  Whether or not the
>proponents of the current draft will stay on board until then remains to
>be seen, but there does seem to be genuine optimism that 2B will come to
>pass.  It just won^t be this year. 
>
>Chris Hoving
>Managing Editor
>UCC Bulletin/UCC Reporting Service
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