AFFECT -- Americans For Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions

Software Developers that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

American Society for Quality
(not yet published on the Net)

Association for Computing Machiner
(www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/usacm-ucc2b-1098.html, www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/usacm-ucita.html, additional articles at www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/)

Free Software Foundation (http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/1999/RRE.campaign.against.abu.html)

Independent Computer Consultants Association
(unpublished)

Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
See www.ieee.org/usab/FORUM/POLICY/98feb23.html and www.ieee.org/usab/FORUM/POLICY/98oct09.html.

Sacramento Area Quality Association
(unpublished)

Software Engineering Institut
(www.badsoftware.com/sei.htm)

software-test-discuss
(this is the Nets largest e-mail discussion forum on software quality control www.badsoftware.com/swtest.htm)

Watts Humphrey
(www.2bguide.com/docs/whsq.html, additional papers not on the web)

American Committee for Interoperable Systems (www.2bguide.com/docs/pc799.html, www.2bguide.com/docs/pcjy98.html)

Digital Future Coalition
www.2BGuide.com/docs/ucitadfc.pdf?

Consumer advocates that have opposed or criticized UCITA:

Consumer Federation of America
(www.cptech.org/ucc/sign-on.html)

Consumer Project on Technology (Ralph Nader)
(www.cptech.org/ucc/sign-on.html, www.cptech.org/ucc/ali3-10.html, and www.badsoftware.com/alidec97.htm) Article 2B protestpage: http://www.essential.org/cpt/ucc/ucc.html

Consumers Union
(1999 www.2bguide.com/docs/cu699.html, 1998 www.2BGuide.com/docs/cu1098.html, 1997 www.ali.org/ali/hillga.htm, 1997 www.2bguide.com/docs/a.html, many others not on the web.

National Consumer League
(www.cptech.org/ucc/sign-on.html)

United States Public Interest Research Group
(www.cptech.org/ucc/sign-on.html).

Cem Kaner
(1996 detailed analysis part: 1 www./uccpart1.htm, 1996 part 2 www.badsoftware.com/uccpart2.htm, privacy problems 1996 www.badsoftware.com/privacy.htm, 1997 detailed analysis www.badsoftware.com/ali.htm, 1998 detailed analysis www.badsoftware.com/kanerncc.htm, 1998 American Bar Association www.badsoftware.com/abba1998.htm , 1998 meeting analysis www.badsoftware.com/uccnov98.htm, 1999Analysis of e-commerce rules for FTC www.ftc.gov/bcp/icpw/comments/kaner.htm)?

Large Software Customers that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

Society for Information Managemen
(main analysis: www.2BGuide.com/docs/simltr1098.html, also www.2bguide.com/docs/simposit.html, www.2bguide.com/docs/52699dc.html )

Security Mutual Life
(www.2bguide.com/docs/52699dc.html)

National Retail Federation
(Members of this Federation employ 1 of every 5 American workers.)

International Communications AssociationPrincipal Financial Group / Principal Life Insurance Company
(unpublished)

Prudential LifeCaterpillar Inc. (unpublished)?

Library Associations that have criticized or opposed UCITA:

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

American Society of Media Photographers
(www.nwu.org/pic/uccasmp.htm)

National Writers Union
(www.nwu.org/pic/ucc1009a.htm, www.2bguide.com/docs/tasini.html)??

Many law professors have criticized or opposed UCITA:

Read the letter from intellectual property law professors to the Maryland State Assembly(the Web page or as a Word document)

50 intellectual property law professors
(www.2BGuide.com/docs/1198ml.html)

43 professors of contract and commercial law (www.2bguide.com/docs/799profs.html)

Working Group on Consumer Protection

American Bar Association Business Law Section, Committee on the Law of Cyberspace, Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce
(www.2bguide.com/docs/jbmb699.html)

Michael Froomkin
(www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/2b.pdf)

Lawrence Lessig, Sign it and Weep
(www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0, 1449,2583,00.html?01)

Jessica Litman
(ftp://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/papers/UCCtales.pdf, readable critique of licensing of information: ftp://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/papers/no.htm)

Pamela Samuelson
(summarizing opposition papers at the Berkeley symposium, www.2bguide.com/docs/samuel.html; see symposium notes at http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b/; http://sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/acm_2B.html)

Paul Shupak, Paul S. Turner, Jane K.
(electronic contracting: www.2bguide.com/docs/0199winn.html)

Charles McManis
(Intellectual property, www.2bguide.com/docs/cmcali2.html)

William Woodward
(choice of law www.ali.org/ali/Woodward1.htm, choice of forum, www.ali.org/ali/Woodward2.htm)?

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) (not on the net)

New York (City) Bar Association