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• PRO CD http : / / www . procd . com/
• ProCD's Select Phone license stipulates it cannot be used for commercial purposes.
• Zeidenberg said Madison attorneys assured him that it was okay to download the ProCD software because of unclear software licensing laws.
• ProCD won a legal victory in a US Court of Appeals in Chicago Monday that could protect software sold in retail stores from those who violate the product licenses.
• "They ( ProCD ) got lucky . . . the whole decision is absurd, " said Zeidenberg, a doctoral student majoring in computer science.
• And when ProCD initially tried to stop him, a US District Court judge in Madison ruled in Zeidenberg's favor, stating that the software licenses inside the ProCD box are not enforceable.
• And when ProCD initially tried to stop him, a US District Court judge in Madison ruled in Zeidenberg's favor, stating that the software licenses inside the ProCD box are not enforceable.
• James Bryant, cofounder of ProCD, which earlier this year was acquired by Acxiom Corp . of Conway, Ark ., said what Zeidenberg did with his firm's software was the equivalent of photocopying a telephone book.
• Upon purchase of this CD-ROM, Zeidenberg installed the software onto his computer then created a website which offered to visitors the information contained on the CD-ROM at a price less than what ProCD charged for the software.
• Unlike the overwhelming majority of packaged software sold in retail stores that is protected by copyright law, ProCD depended heavily on its software license because telephone listings _ names, addresses and phone numbers _ are essentially facts and unprotected by federal law.
• In its decision, the court ruled that the student, Matthew Zeidenberg and his one-man company, Silken Mountain Web Services of Madison, Wis ., violated the ProCD license agreement that was enclosed in the shrink-wrapped software package.
• Further, in " ProCD v . Zeidenberg ", the license was ruled enforceable because it was necessary for the customer to assent to the terms of the agreement by clicking on an " I Agree " button in order to install the software.
• The enforceability of shrink wrap contracts has been an issue of controversy as demonstrated in a few notable cases, " Vernor v . Autodesk " and " ProCD, Inc . v . Zeidenberg " both of which cited the Step-Saver case.
• Zeidenberg purchased a non-commercial copy of SelectPhone and after opening the packaging and installing the software on his personal computer, Zeidenberg created a website and offered the information originally on the CD to visitors for a fee that was less than what ProCD charged its commercial customers.
• The clickwrap method was presented to the court in " ProCD v . Zeidenberg ", 86 F . 3d 1447 ( 7th Cir . 1996 ), where Zeidenberg purchased a CD-ROM, created by ProCD, which contained a compilation of a telephone directory database.
• The clickwrap method was presented to the court in " ProCD v . Zeidenberg ", 86 F . 3d 1447 ( 7th Cir . 1996 ), where Zeidenberg purchased a CD-ROM, created by ProCD, which contained a compilation of a telephone directory database.
• The case _ widely watched by the software industry for its possible implications _ involved a University of Wisconsin graduate student who formed an Internet company last fall using telephone listings from ProCD's Select Phone, a national white pages telephone database directory on five compact disks that contains 93 million listings.
• "The recent Court of Appeals decision is perhaps the most significant legal decision made on the enforceability of shrink-wrap licenses, " said Kenneth Wasch, president of the Software Publishers Association, an industry trade organization that was one of several business groups supporting ProCD, of Danvers, Mass.
• But in a unanimous ruling by the three-member Court of Appeals for the seventh circuit in Chicago, Judge Frank Easterbrook overturned the lower court's decision and sided with ProCD, stating that it was impractical to print, in " microscopic type, " the entire license agreement on the outside of a box.
• Prior to his purchase of the software, Zeidenberg may not have been aware of any prohibited use or dissemination of the product without consent by ProCD . However, upon preparing to install the software onto his computer, the software license appeared on his computer screen and would not allow him to continue with the installation without indicating acceptance by clicking his assent in a dialog box.