본 연구는 상사적 정보거래에 있어 컴퓨터 정보계약, 곧 컴퓨터 정보의 생성변경이전 또는 라이센스에 관련된 계약(계약상 컴퓨터 정보를 획득하고자하는 경우 포함)에 적용되는 실체법적 기반으로서의 법적 지위를 점하는 미국의 통일컴퓨터정보거래법(UCITA)에 있어 계약위반(breach of contract)에 관한 규정체계를 분석하고자 한다(다만, 구제수단에 관하여는 추후 연구과제로 함). 동 계약위반에 관한 규정, 곧 UCITA제7편은 타 법률과의 조화적 관점에서 유형의 매체(tangible medium)로서 고정될 수 있는 정보가 계약의 목적물로 편입된 경우, 당사자 간 적용될 수 있는 현행 계약위반에 관한 규정으로서 통일상법전(UCC)제2편의 내용을 대부분 수용하고 있는 반면에, 권리포기(waiver)나 계약위반의 치유(cure), 이행보증(assurance) 및 이행기전의 계약위반에 있어서는 보통법과 UCC제2편의 규칙을 컴퓨터 정보거래의 특수성을 고려하여 규정체계 및/또는 조문내용을 적의 변형수용하고 있는 특징이 있다.

Over the last two decades, the National Conference on of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws(NCCUSL) proposed a number of Uniform Acts to accommodate existing statutory and common law to the new e-commerce age. Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act(UCITA) is an essential further proposal to address the fastest-growing segment of our national economy in this information age. UCITA covers contracts in "computer information." It applies only if the agreement is to create, modify, transfer, or license computer information. If a contract involves both computer information and something else, It applies only to the part of the deal that involves computer information, except where the other subject matter is not goods and obtaining the computer information is the primary purpose of the deal. Part 7 of UCITA for the most part carries over the familiar rules of Article 2 concerning breach when appropriate in the context of the tangible medium on which the information is fixed, but also adapts common law rules and rules from Article 2 on waiver, cure, assurance and anticipatory breach to the context of computer information transactions. Contract law pertaining to electronic commerce and to commerce in computer information will be recast during the next several years. UCITA offers the potential that this will be done in a coherent and uniform manner, rather than in idiosyncratic legislation the cost of discovering and complying with which will be huge. It provides a solid, needed basis for information commerce.

Over the last two decades, the National Conference on of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws(NCCUSL) proposed a number of Uniform Acts to accommodate existing statutory and common law to the new e-commerce age. Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act(UCITA) is an essential further proposal to address the fastest-growing segment of our national economy in this information age. UCITA covers contracts in "computer information." It applies only if the agreement is to create, modify, transfer, or license computer information. If a contract involves both computer information and something else, It applies only to the part of the deal that involves computer information, except where the other subject matter is not goods and obtaining the computer information is the primary purpose of the deal. Part 7 of UCITA for the most part carries over the familiar rules of Article 2 concerning breach when appropriate in the context of the tangible medium on which the information is fixed, but also adapts common law rules and rules from Article 2 on waiver, cure, assurance and anticipatory breach to the context of computer information transactions. Contract law pertaining to electronic commerce and to commerce in computer information will be recast during the next several years. UCITA offers the potential that this will be done in a coherent and uniform manner, rather than in idiosyncratic legislation the cost of discovering and complying with which will be huge. It provides a solid, needed basis for information commerce.

Computer Information Transactions, Breach of Contract, UCITA