Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 324.004 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CAUSING COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO BE COPIED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
For purposes of this chapter, a person causes computer software to be copied if the person distributes or transfers computer software or a component of computer software. Causing computer software to be copied does not include:
(1) transmitting or routing computer software or a component of the software;
(2) providing intermediate temporary storage or caching of software;
(3) providing a storage medium such as a compact disk;
(4) a website;
(5) the distribution of computer software by a third party through a computer server; or
(6) providing an information location tool, such as a directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link, through which the user of a computer is able to locate computer software.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 2.01, eff. April 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.324.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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