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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 415
BY SENATOR MICHOT
COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Provides that developing or manufacturing computer
software products, or developing or supplying services, while knowingly using stolen or
misappropriated computer software and selling or offering for sale such computer software
is a deceptive or unfair trade practice or act. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 51:1427, relative to deceptive or unfair trade practices or acts; to prohibit a2
person from selling or offering to sell computer software products which the person3
has developed or manufactured, or services that the person develops or supplies,4
while knowingly using stolen or misappropriated computer software; to provide for5
sanctions; and to provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 51:1427 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 8
ยง1427. Unfair or deceptive trade practices or acts; stolen or misappropriated9
computer software; violations10
A. It shall be unlawful for a person to develop or manufacture computer11
software products, or to develop or supply services, while knowingly using12
stolen or misappropriated computer software, including but not limited to13
computer software that does not have the necessary license agreements, where14
those computer software products or services are sold or offered for sale in this15
state.16
B. Any violation of this Section shall be a deceptive or unfair practice or17 SB NO. 415
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act and shall subject the violator to any and all actions and penalties provided1
for in this Chapter.2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides that it is unlawful for a person to develop or manufacture computer
software products, or develop or supply services, while knowingly using stolen or
misappropriated computer software, including but not limited to computer software that does
not have the necessary license agreements, where those computer software products or
services are sold or offered for sale in this state.
Proposed law provides that any violation of proposed law is a deceptive or unfair practice
or act and subjects the violator to any and all actions and penalties provided for in Unfair
Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 51:1427)