The Computer & Internet Lawyer articles from December 2002

The Computer & Internet Lawyer archives from December 2002

How to ensure that your Web site complies with consumer protection laws.(Internet advertising)
December 1, 2002... The growing popularity of the Internet as a means to advertise and transact business has raised various novel legal issues. Among them is the applicability of the general principles of advertising law to the Internet. What follows is an...

Liability of online service providers.(part 3)
December 1, 2002... Part III of a three-part series. This three-part article explores the ways in which copyright owners have sought to hold online service providers (OSPs) and bulletin board service (BBS) operators liable on theories of direct liability,...

Antitrust claims did not trigger insurer's duty to defend.
December 1, 2002... Plaintiffs Open Software Foundation (OSF) and Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) brought this diversity action against United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company (USF&G), their general commercial liability insurer. In the suit, OSF claimed that...

Evidence of past trademark infringement not sufficient to require transfer of domain name.
December 1, 2002... Epix, Inc. sued Interstellar Starship Services, Ltd. (ISS) and its president, Michael Tchou, in district court alleging that their use of the www.epix.com domain name infringed Epix's registered EPIX trademark. The district court enjoined ISS...

Online license terms displayed below "download" button held unenforceable. .
December 1, 2002... Several Internet users and a Web site operator (plaintiffs) brought putative class actions against the computer software producer Netscape Communications Corporation and its corporate parent, America Online, Inc. (collectively, defendants or...

ICANN Board selects new .org registry operator.
December 1, 2002... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors voted on October 16, 2002, to select the Internet Society (ISOC) for a new registry operator of the .org top-level domain to replace VeriSign. ISOC...