Comprehensive List of Organizations and Others that Have Opposed or Criticized UCITA

Many letters of opposition have been sent to members of the Drafting Committee that have not been widely distributed. This list is a subset of the collection of papers that have called for an end to the UCITA (Article 2B) project or that have raised major criticisms.

UCITA has been criticized or opposed by:

32 State Attorneys General (2001)
26 State Attorneys General (1999)
Software developers
Every consumer advocacy organization that has looked at it
Large software customers
Librarians
Other independent information content developers (writers, photographers)
Many law professors

Additionally, it has been sharply criticized by the United States Federal Trade Commission

Software Developers that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

American Society for Quality (not yet published on the Net)
Association for Computing Machinery
Free Software Foundation
Independent Computer Consultants Association (unpublished)
Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Sacramento Area Quality Association (unpublished)
Software Engineering Institute
Software-test-discuss (this is the Net's largest e-mail discussion forum on software quality control)
Watts Humphrey
American Committee for Interoperable Systems
Digital Future Coalition

Consumer Advocates that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Project on Technology (Ralph Nader)
Consumers Union
National Consumer League
United States Public Interest Research Group
Cem Kaner

Large Software Customers that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

Society for Information Management
Security Mutual Life
National Retail Federation (identifying "grave problems" without calling for rejection) (Members of this Federation employ 1 of every 5 American workers.)
International Communications Association (identifying "grave problems" without calling for rejection)
Principal Financial Group / Principal Life Insurance Company
Prudential Life
Caterpillar Inc.

Library Associations that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

American Association of Law Libraries
American Library Association
Association of Research Libraries
Medical Library Association
Special Libraries Association

Other independent information content developers (writers, photographers) that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

American Society of Media Photographers
National Writers Union

Many law professors have criticized or opposed UCITA:

50 intellectual property law professors
43 contract professors of contracts and commercial law
Working Group on Consumer Protection, American Bar Association - Business Law Section, Committee on the Law of Cyberspace, Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce
Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Information Management & Law Co-director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (summarizing opposition papers at the Berkeley symposium)
Paul Shupak, Paul S. Turner, Jane K. Winn, Professors and authors
Charles McManis, Professor of Law
William Woodward Professor of Law

Legal Associations that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

American Law Institute (participated in the initial drafting of UCITA but withdrew because of the unbalanced nature of the statute)
American Intellectual Property Law Association (10,000 intellectual property lawyers)
New York (City) Bar Association

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