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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80284</law_id><section_number>59.1-502.9</section_number><catch_line>Mass-market license</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-501.15</reference><reference>59.1-501.17</reference><reference>59.1-502.5</reference><reference>59.1-502.6</reference><reference>59.1-502.8</reference><reference>59.1-503.7</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="43">Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Formation and Terms</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> A <span class="dictionary">party</span> adopts the terms of a mass-market license for purposes of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Adopting terms of records" href="/59.1-502.8/">59.1-502.8</a> only if the <span class="dictionary">party</span> agrees to the license, such as by manifesting assent, before or during the <span class="dictionary">party</span>&#x2019;s initial performance or use of or access to the information. A term is not part of the license if: <a id="paragraph-287414" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> the term is unconscionable or is unenforceable under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Relation to federal law; fundamental public policy; transactions subject to other state law" href="/59.1-501.5/">59.1-501.5</a> (a) or (b); <a id="paragraph-287415" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> subject to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Parol or extrinsic evidence" href="/59.1-503.1/">59.1-503.1</a>, the term conflicts with a term to which the parties to the license have expressly agreed; <a id="paragraph-287416" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Opportunity to review" href="/59.1-501.13_1/">59.1-501.13:1</a>, the licensee does not have an opportunity to review the term before agreeing to it; or <a id="paragraph-287417" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#a3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> the term is not available for viewing before and after assent: <a id="paragraph-287418" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#a4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> in a printed license; or <a id="paragraph-287419" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> in electronic form that (i) can be printed or stored for archival and review purposes by the licensee or (ii) is made available by a licensor to a licensee, at no cost to the licensee, in a printed form on the request of a licensee who is unable to print or store the license for archival and review purposes. <a id="paragraph-287420" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> If a mass-market license or a copy of the license is not available in a manner permitting an opportunity to review by the licensee before the licensee becomes obligated to pay and the licensee does not agree, such as by manifesting assent, to the license after having an opportunity to review, the licensee is entitled to a return under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Manifesting assent" href="/59.1-501.12/">59.1-501.12</a> or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Opportunity to review" href="/59.1-501.13_1/">59.1-501.13:1</a> and, in addition, to: <a id="paragraph-287421" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> reimbursement of any reasonable expenses incurred in complying with the licensor&#x2019;s instructions for returning or destroying the computer information or, in the absence of instructions, expenses incurred for return postage or similar reasonable expense in returning the computer information; and <a id="paragraph-287422" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#b1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> compensation for any reasonable and foreseeable costs of restoring the licensee&#x2019;s information processing system to <span class="dictionary">reverse</span> changes in the system caused by the installation, if: <a id="paragraph-287423" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#b2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> the installation occurs because information must be installed to enable review of the license; and <a id="paragraph-287424" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> the installation alters the system or information in it but does not restore the system or information after removal of the installed information because the licensee rejected the license. <a id="paragraph-287425" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> In a mass-market transaction, if the licensor does not have an opportunity to review a record containing proposed terms from the licensee before the licensor delivers or becomes obligated to deliver the information, and if the licensor does not agree, such as by manifesting assent, to those terms after having that opportunity, the licensor is entitled to a return. <a id="paragraph-287426" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.9/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 101, 996; 2001, c. 763; 2004, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
