The Computer & Internet Lawyer articles from October 2006

The Computer & Internet Lawyer archives from October 2006

Source code, object code, and 'The Da Vinci Code': the debate on intellectual property protection for software programs.
October 1, 2006... For many years, the courts in England and the United States have tried to balance the protection of an author's skill and labor with the competing notion of a free market in which ideas are adapted in the search for newer and better products....

Lost back-up tapes, stolen laptops, and other tales of data breach woe.
October 1, 2006... Employees' and executives' laptops are being stolen from conference rooms and left in taxicabs; data storage vendors are losing corporate backup tapes with uncomfortable frequency; overnight delivery firms are losing backup tapes and servers;...

Creating and managing IP that is tailored to your business objectives.(intellectual property)
October 1, 2006... A company should first define its business objectives and then create a plan to tailor the company's intellectual property (IP) to support those objectives. The steps in the process of managing the IP in this way involve (1) finding the IP...

No personal jurisdiction over wholly passive web site.
October 1, 2006... In Pebble Beach Co., v. Michael Caddy, [No. 04-15577 (9th Cir. 07/12/06)], Pebble Beach Company, a golf course resort in California, appealed the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of its complaint against Michael Caddy, a small business...

KaZaA and record companies settle litigation as KaZaA goes legit.
October 1, 2006... The major record companies have reached a global out-of-court settlement of international litigation against the operators of the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the International Federation...

Offer for Internet service violated FTC Act.
October 1, 2006... In FTC v. Cyberspace.com [No. 04-35428 (9th Cir. 07/13/2006)], the Ninth Circuit considered whether a mail solicitation for Internet service was deceptive as a matter of law within the meaning of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Between...

FTC alleges illegal sales of contact lenses over Internet.
October 1, 2006... A company and its owner selling contact lenses directly to consumers via three Web sites are settling Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that they violated federal law by failing to verify consumers' prescriptions as required by the FTC's...