At a CLA ACTSS conference last year on Cyperfrisbies, Claire LeDonne
from UC Berkeley, and Ken Sogar of SCS Information Systems did a
presentation on these legal issues.  They indicated that they had had
success renegotiating the licensing, and suggested that including in all
purchase orders for electronic media a disclaimer detailing the library's
intentions for use of the product  is as binding as vendors
shrinkwrap agreements.  They mentioned that EDUCOM has a model Computer
Use Policy.  With nine libraries scattered around California, we are
in the process of networking CD-ROM, multimedia and online databases and
developing policies for vendor licensing along the lines suggested.

Bud Sonka
Serials Supervisor
National University Library System
San Diego, CA
<bsonka@NUNIC.NU.EDU>

On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Carole R. Bell wrote:

> At a meeting at NASIG this past summer, a presenter said (I can't remember
> who, or at which session this was said) that the shrink wrap licenses would
> never stand up in court if a suit ever resulted from the abuse of one.  Even
> though I didn't write down who said this, it made sense to me.  Carole
>
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