Abstract
This note analyzes the decision in Bourne v. Disney and proposes a method for courts to determine whether a licensing agreement includes the rights to future technologies. This Note concludes that courts should only interpret licenses to include the rights to future technology when the contract includes a broad grant of rights or a future-mediums clause. Even when the contract does not include a future-mediums clause, it should not be enforced when the form of technology is so disimilar from the technology contemplated as to be unfair.
Recommended Citation
Gayley Rosen,
The Rights to Future Technologies: Should Bourne v. Disney Change the Rules?,
24 Fordham Urb. L.J. 617
(1997).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol24/iss3/6