ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg
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ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir., 1996), was a court ruling at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.[1] The case is a significant precedent on the matter of the applicability of American contract law to new types of shrinkwrap licenses that arose with home computing and the Internet in the 1990s, and whether such licenses are enforceable contracts.
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ProCD v. Zeidenberg | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
Full case name | ProCD, Inc. av. Matthew Zeidenberg and Silken Mountain Web Services, Inc. |
Decided | June 20, 1996 |
Citation(s) | 86 F.3d 1447; 65 USLW 2014; 1996 Copr. L. Dec. (CCH) ¶ 27,529; 39 U.S.P.Q.2d 1161; 29 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 1109 |
Case history | |
Prior history | 908 F. Supp. 640 (W.D. Wis. 1996) |
Holding | |
A shrink wrap license for a software product is an enforceable contract. | |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | John Louis Coffey, Joel Martin Flaum, Frank H. Easterbrook |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Easterbrook |
Laws applied | |
Uniform Commercial Code §§ 2-204, 2-206, 2-606 |
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