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The national law firm, Morrison & Foerster LLP (known as MoFo), with its main office in San Francisco, sued direct mail marketer Etracks.com Inc., an Oklahoma corporation, and Learn2 Corporation, for spamming the firm’s servers with more than 6,500 unsolicited emails.
The Center for Digital Government has given its first ever award, in the category of Best Digital Legislature, to the Arizona State Legislature Information System (ALIS) web site, which “allows the public to create individualized bill-tracking systems, among many other features and services. Arizona also boasts a 100 percent usage rate of members with laptops.” …
The two author’s of this article, Jeffrey Eisenach and Peter Swire, are former members of the Reagan and Clinton administrations respectively. They concur on the need for the creation “of a new commission on privacy, personal freedom and homeland security.”
NeuStar.com, manager of the “.us” domain, argued against legislation requiring the creation of a “.kids.us” domain during a September 12 hearing held by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space. The Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002 was passed by the House on May 21, 2002. NueStar …
From the Legal Information Insitute (LII) at Cornell University, here is a useful site that organizes the Court’s decisions by topic, also providing a brief synopsis of each case, the date decided, and a link to the full-text.
From the current issue of the Journal of Information Law & Technology, this article on Online Dispute Resolution in Business to Consumer E-commerce Transactions reviews online forums for effectively resolving frequent disputes that arise from consumer purchases via the Web, including cross-border disputes.
A new article, Electronic Signatures: A Transatlantic Bridge? An EU and US Legal Approach Towards Electronic Authentication, provides a detailed analysis of how the two parties are approaching the issue of digital signatures in regard to the challenges presented by the e-commerce arena, based on the EU Directive on electronic signatures (1999) and the US …
The National Journal reviews the ongoing Internet copyright battle framed from the Hollywood perspective that focuses on widespread evidence of digital piracy, and Silicon Valley (the tech marketplace) position that argues making personal copies of various forms of digital content (CDs, DVDs) is fair use. This is a battle between titans, and the stakes are …
ICANN provides a searchable database for Proceedings under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) that is updated daily. The database is maintained by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
After a rather long wait, the Public Papers of President George Bush, 1992-1993, Vol. I, were just released on September 11, via this link to the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). The Clinton public papers have been available for some time via this same link.
It is estimated that China has 46 million Web users, and the recent flareup concerning the government’s censorship of both the Google and AltaVista search engines has raised concerns. According to a September 12 article , 80% of all Chinese internet traffic goes through one ISP, so it is very easy for the government to …
Former President Clinton’s new web site is available at http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.com/. There is an archive of his post-Presidential speeches, a flash timeline of his administration’s legislative accomplishments from 1993-2000, and the site was designed to comply with Section 508 and W3 standards for use by those with disabilities.
