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Friday, October 25, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002102501t.htm Legal Scholars and Library Groups Seek Clarification From Court on Software Licenses ANDREA L. FOSTER Law professors and academic-library groups are asking a federal appeals court here to modify a recent ruling to make it clear that established copyright provisions, like fair use, sometimes trump software-licensing agreements that would otherwise narrow consumers' rights. The case in question, Harold L. Bowers v. Baystate Technologies Inc., involves the shrink-wrap license on a piece of software Mr. Bowers created to improve computer-aided-design software. Mr. Bowers, of Memphis, said Baystate had purchased a copy of his software and then "reverse-engineered" the product -- figuring out how it worked and then creating a similar product for sale under Baystate's name....
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