Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session through ch. 845
Section 59.1-506.11 - Access contracts(a) If an access contract provides for access over a period of time, the following rules apply: (1) The licensee's rights of access are to the information as modified and made commercially available by the licensor from time to time during that period.(2) A change in the content of the information is a breach of contract only if the change conflicts with an express term of the agreement.(3) Unless it is subject to a contractual use term, information obtained by the licensee is free of any use restriction other than a restriction resulting from the informational rights of another person or other law.(4) Access must be available: (A) at times and in a manner conforming to the express terms of the agreement; and(B) to the extent not expressly stated in the agreement, at times and in a manner reasonable for the particular type of contract in light of the ordinary standards of the business, trade, or industry.(b) In an access contract that gives the licensee a right of access at times substantially of its own choosing during agreed periods, an occasional failure to have access available during those times is not a breach of contract if it is:(1) consistent with ordinary standards of the business, trade, or industry for the particular type of contract; or(2) caused by: (B) reasonable needs for maintenance;(C) reasonable periods of failure of equipment, computer programs, or communications; or(D) events reasonably beyond the licensor's control, and the licensor exercises such commercially reasonable efforts as the circumstances require.Amended by Acts 2000, § cc. 101, 996.