Copyright and the internet
Title: Copyright and the internet
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Copyright and the internet
Are shrink wrap licenses worth the paper they are printed on?
Table of contents
Introduction
1. A brief history of Shrinkwrap license
2. What constitutes a binding contract?
3. Statutory intervention
4. Conclusion
Footnotes
Bibliography
Introduction
The plastic wrap found around the software packet is called the shrinkwrap .Inside the shrink-wrap are user instructions accompanied with a license which proportes to grant the user permission to use the software subject to certain term and conditions in the license. Hence …
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showed last 75 words of 4322 total…legislation. The software producer will be able to rely more often than not on the shrink wrap license unless the consumer can prove the conditions in the license are unconscionable. Shrink-wrap license are enforceable unless their terms are objectionable on the grounds applicable to contracts in general ( for example , if they violate positive law , or if they are unconscionable) .It would ,therefore ,seem that the shrinkwrap license is worth the paper it is printed on.
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