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11/20/2001 Entry: "Bar association hears debate over UCITA Computerworld News & Features Story"

Bar association hears debate over UCITA | Computerworld News & Features Story

In an unusual forum that ended yesterday, a special committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) heard two-and-a-half days of arguments over the proposed software licensing law known as UCITA as part of its attempt to determine whether it should back the measure.

The ABA's position is seen as critical to the law's ultimate fate.

If the Chicago-based ABA supports the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), "I believe we will see UCITA passing in many states," said Cem Kaner, an attorney and computer science professor at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. Kaner is a leading critic of the measure.