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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 508', '§ 508', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59', '§ 59']

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HOUSE BILL NO. 2412 House Amendments in [ ] -- January 29, 2001 A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 59.1-501.2 through 59.1-501.5, 59.1-501.9, 59.1-501.10, 59.1-501.12, 59.1-502.9, 59.1-502.12, 59.1-505.3, 59.1-506.5, and 59.1-508.16 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 59.1-503.10, relating to the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. ---------- Patron Prior to Engrossment--Delegate May ---------- Referred to Committee on Science and Technology ----------
1. That §§ 59.1-501.2 through 59.1-501.5, 59.1-501.9, 59.1-501.10, 59.1-501.12, 59.1-502.9, 59.1-502.12, 59.1-505.3, 59.1-506.5, and 59.1-508.16 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 59.1-503.10 as follows:
(7) "Automated transaction" means a transaction in which a contract is formed in whole or part by electronic actions of one or both parties which are not previously reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course.
(10) "Computer information" means information in electronic form which is obtained from or through the use of a computer or which is in a form capable of being processed by a computer. The term includes a copy of the information and any documentation or packaging associated with the copy.
(25) "Direct damages" means compensation for losses measured by § 508.8 (b) (1) or § 508.9 (a) (1). The term does not include consequential damages or incidental damages.
(27) "Electronic agent" means a computer program, or electronic or other automated means, used by a person independently to initiate an action, or to respond to electronic messages or performances, on the person's behalf without review or action by an individual at the time of the action or response to the message or performance.
(39) "Knowledge," with respect to a fact, means actual knowledge of the fact.
(40) "License" means a contract that authorizes access to, or use, distribution, performance, modification, or reproduction of, information or informational rights, but expressly limits the access or uses authorized or expressly grants fewer than all rights in the information, whether or not the transferee has title to a licensed copy. The term includes an access contract, a lease of a computer program, and a consignment of a copy. The term does not include a reservation or creation of a security interest to the extent the interest is governed by Title 8.9A.
(41) "Licensee" means a person entitled by agreement to acquire or exercise rights in, or to have access to or use of, computer information under an agreement to which this chapter applies. A licensor is not a licensee with respect to rights reserved to it under the agreement.
(42) "Licensor" means a person obligated by agreement to transfer or create rights in, or to give access to or use of, computer information or informational rights in it under an agreement to which this chapter applies. Between the provider of access and a provider of the informational content to be accessed, the provider of content is the licensor. In an exchange of information or informational rights, each party is a licensor with respect to the information, informational rights, or access it gives.
(43) "Mass-market license" means a standard form used in a mass-market transaction.
(44) "Mass-market transaction" means a transaction that is:
(45) "Merchant" means a person:
(46) "Nonexclusive license" means a license that does not preclude the licensor from transferring to other licensees the same information, informational rights, or contractual rights within the same scope. The term includes a consignment of a copy.
(47) "Notice" of a fact means knowledge of the fact, receipt of notification of the fact, or reason to know the fact exists.
(48) "Notify" or "give notice" means to take such steps as may be reasonably required to inform the other person in the ordinary course, whether or not the other person actually comes to know of it.
(49) "Party" means a person that engages in a transaction or makes an agreement under this chapter.
(50) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental subdivision, instrumentality, or agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(51) "Published informational content" means informational content prepared for or made available to recipients generally, or to a class of recipients, in substantially the same form. The term does not include informational content that is (i) customized for a particular recipient by one or more individuals acting as or on behalf of the licensor, using judgment or expertise or (ii) provided in a special relationship of reliance between the provider and the recipient.
(52) "Receipt" means:
(53) "Receive" means to take receipt.
(54) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(55) "Release" means an agreement by a party not to object to, or exercise any rights or pursue any remedies to limit, the use of information or informational rights which agreement does not require an affirmative act by the party to enable or support the other party's use of the information or informational rights. The term includes a waiver of informational rights.
(56) "Return," with respect to a record containing contractual terms that were rejected, refers only to the computer information and means:
(57) "Scope," with respect to terms of a license, means:
(58) "Seasonable," with respect to an act, means taken within the time agreed or, if no time is agreed, within a reasonable time.
(59) "Send" means, with any costs provided for and properly addressed or directed as reasonable under the circumstances or as otherwise agreed, to deposit a record in the mail or with a commercially reasonable carrier, to deliver a record for transmission to or re-creation in another location or information processing system, or to take the steps necessary to initiate transmission to or re-creation of a record in another location or information processing system. In addition, with respect to an electronic message, the message must be in a form capable of being processed by or perceived from a system of the type the recipient uses or otherwise has designated or held out as a place for the receipt of communications of the kind sent. Receipt within the time in which it would have arrived if properly sent, has the effect of a proper sending.
(60) "Standard form" means a record or a group of related records containing terms prepared for repeated use in transactions and so used in a transaction in which there was no negotiated change of terms by individuals except to set the price, quantity, method of payment, selection among standard options, or time or method of delivery.
(61) "State" means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(62) "Term," with respect to an agreement, means that portion of the agreement which relates to a particular matter.
(63) "Termination" means the ending of a contract by a party pursuant to a power created by agreement or law otherwise than because of breach of contract.
(64) "Transfer":
(65) "Usage of trade" means any practice or method of dealing that has such regularity of observance in a place, vocation, or trade as to justify an expectation that it will be observed with respect to the transaction in question.
(1) "Burden of establishing" § 8.1-201.
(2) "Document of title" § 8.1-201.
(6) "Instrument" § 8.9-105 § 8.9A-102.
(7) "Investment property" § 8.9-115 § 8.9A-102.
(2) Subject to subsection (d) (2) (A), if a transaction includes an agreement for creating or for obtaining rights to create computer information and a motion picture, this chapter does not apply to the agreement if the dominant character of the agreement is for creating or obtaining rights to create a motion picture. In all other such agreements, this chapter does not apply to the part of the agreement that involves a motion picture excluded under subsection (d)(2), but does apply to the computer information.
(A) a motion picture or audio or visual programming that is provided by broadcast, satellite, or cable as defined or used in the Federal Communications Act and related regulations as they existed on July 1, 1999, or by similar methods of delivering that programming; other than in (i) a mass-market transaction or (ii) a submission of an idea or information or release of informational rights that may result in making a motion picture or a similar information product; or
(B) sound recording, musical work, or phonorecord as defined or used in Title 17 of the United States Code as of July 1, 1999, or an enhanced sound recording, other than in the submission of an idea or information or release of informational rights that may result in the creation of such material or a similar information product. ; or
(5) a contract that does not require that information be furnished as computer information or in which under the agreement the form of the information as computer information is otherwise insignificant with respect to the primary subject matter of the part of the transaction pertaining to the information;
(6) unless otherwise agreed in a record between the parties:
(6) (7) subject matter within the scope of Titles 8.3, 8.4, 8.4A, 8.5A, 8.6A, 8.7, or 8.8A.
(e) As used in subsection (d) (2) (B), "enhanced sound recording" means a separately identifiable product or service the dominant character of which consists of recorded sounds but which includes (i) statements or instructions whose purpose is to allow or control the perception, reproduction, or communication of those sounds or (ii) other information so long as recorded sounds constitute the dominant character of the product or service despite the inclusion of the other information.
(1) "motion picture" as defined in Title 17 of the United States Code as of July 1, 1999,; or
(g) As used in this section, "audio or visual programming" means audio or visual programming that is provided by broadcast, satellite, or cable as defined or used in the federal Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) and related regulations as they existed on July 1, 1999, or by similar methods of delivery.
(1) An agreement that this chapter governs a transaction does not alter the applicability of any statute, rule, regulation or procedure that may not be varied by agreement of the parties or that may be varied only in a manner specified by the statute, rule, regulation or procedure, including but not limited to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act of 1977 (§ 59.1-196 et seq.) and other consumer protection statutes, rules or regulations. In addition, in a mass-market transaction, the agreement does not alter the applicability of a law applicable to a copy of information in printed form.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), if this chapter or a term of a contract under this chapter conflicts with a consumer protection statute, rule or regulation, including but not limited to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act of 1977 (§ 59.1-196 et seq.), the Virginia Consumer Protection Act consumer protection statute, rule or regulation governs.
(d) If a law of the Commonwealth in effect on the effective date of this chapter applies to a transaction governed by this chapter, the following rules apply:
(e) If this chapter conflicts with Chapter 39 (§ 59.1-469 et seq.) of this title, Chapter 39 governs.
(a) The parties in their agreement may choose the applicable law. However, the choice is not enforceable in a consumer contract to the extent it would vary a statute, rule or regulation that may not be varied by agreement under the law of Virginia.
(a) The parties in their agreement may choose an exclusive judicial forum unless the choice is unreasonable and or unjust.
(2) An electronic agent has an opportunity to review a record or term only if it is made available in a manner that would enable a reasonably configured electronic agent to react to the record or term.
(g) Providers of online services, network access, and telecommunications services, or the operators of facilities thereof, do not manifest assent to a contractual relationship simply by their provision of these services to other parties, including but not limited to transmission, routing, or providing connections, linking, caching, hosting, information location tools, or storage of materials at the request or initiation of a person other than the service provider.
(2) subject to § 59.1-503.1, the term conflicts with a term to which the parties to the license have expressly agreed; or
(3) the term is not available for viewing before and after assent:
(d) In a mass-market transaction, a term that has the effect of forbidding or restricting the rights or abilities of licensees of computer information to engage in public disclosure of a description, criticism, comparison, or evaluation of the computer information or its license terms is unenforceable to the extent these rights or abilities are not prohibited by other law.
(1) An attribution procedure established by law is effective for transactions within the coverage of the statute, or rule or regulation.
(2) the nonprofit library, archive or educational institution specifically manifests assent to the term pursuant to [ Section 112 (c) subsection (c) of § 59.1-501.12 ] ; and
(ii) the nonprofit library, archive or educational institution is given the right to return the copy in the event that it refuses the contract and the right to be reimbursed for any reasonable expenses incurred in complying with the licensor’s instructions for returning or destroying the computer information, or in the absence [ of ] such instructions, the reimbursement of expenses incurred for return postage or similar reasonable expense in returning the computer information.
(2) deal with making the informational content available on a computer network server or other system for simultaneous access and use by multiple users; or
(2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3) and § 59.1-508 (a) (1) (B) § 59.1-505.8 (a) (1) (B), a term prohibiting transfer of a party's contractual interest is enforceable, and a transfer made in violation of that term is a breach of contract and is ineffective to create contractual rights in the transferee against the nontransferring party, except to the extent that:
(C) the transfer is in connection with a merger or the acquisition or sale of a subsidiary or affiliate involving the licensee and another person and is made (i) to preserve the integrity of information and information processing systems used by the licensee, or (ii) to ensure compatibility of information and information processing systems among the parties involved in the merger, acquisition, or sale.
(a) In this section, "automatic restraint" means a program, code, device, or similar electronic or physical limitation the intended purpose of which is to restrict prevent use of information contrary to the contract or applicable law.
(c) This section does not authorize an automatic restraint that affirmatively prevents or makes impracticable a licensee's access to its own information or information of a third party, other than the licensor, if that information is in the possession of the licensee or a third party and accessed without use of the licensor's information or informational rights.
(f) This section does not authorize use of an automatic restraint to enforce remedies in the event because of breach of contract or of for cancellation for breach. If a right to cancel for breach of contract and a right to exercise restraint under subdivision (b) (4) exist simultaneously, affirmative acts constituting electronic self-help must be taken pursuant to § 59.1-508.16, including its prohibition on mass-market transactions, instead of this section. Affirmative acts under this subsection do not include (i) use of a program, code, device, or similar electronic or physical limitation that operates automatically without regard to breach or (ii) a refusal to prevent the operation of a restraint authorized by this section or to reverse its effect.
(1) "electronic self-help" means the use of electronic means to exercise a licensor's rights under § 59.1-508.15 (b).; and
(i) This section does not apply if the licensor obtains physical possession of a copy without a breach of the peace and the electronic self-help is used solely with respect to that copy without the use of electronic self-help; in which case, a lawfully obtained copy may be erased or disabled by electronic means.