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31 Oct 2001
A panellist of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has criticised his fellow panellists for misusing domain name dispute rules recently to order the transfer of two domain names to a trade mark owner.
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31 Oct 2001
America Online has been barred form distributing it’s AOL 6.0 software due to a possible copyright violation. A federal court granted an injunction in light of allegations that the software uses Playmedia System’s digital music encoding technology,...
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31 Oct 2001
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) yesterday said that the US Supreme Court has an opportunity to help the federal government protect children by upholding the US Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) - a law that bans “virtual”...
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31 Oct 2001
Recent research claims that 82% of internet users surveyed have made an on-line purchase as a result of e-mail advertising. The findings, published by Doubleclick, the internet advertising company, indicate a rise of 21% on the previous year.
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30 Oct 2001
A company found to be bombarding users of Japan’s popular i-mode mobile internet service with unsolicited commercial e-mail has been halted by NTT DoCoMo, the company behind the service and the country’s leading mobile operator.
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30 Oct 2001
Computer maker Gateway has joined the Safe Harbor agreement, a scheme which is designed to bring US companies in line with European data protection requirements. EU law lays down a prohibition on transfers of personal data from member states to third...
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30 Oct 2001
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has met with criticism from another major anti-piracy organisation, the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), which questioned the motives behind a survey recently sent by the BSA to every UK organisation with...
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30 Oct 2001
The UK Communication Managers Association (CMA) fears that tax relief, recommended recently by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) to encourage the uptake of broadband internet access, will be rejected by the Government in light of the current economic...
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29 Oct 2001
A hold on the allocation of 58,000 domain names with .biz suffixes has been lifted following a decision by the party bringing legal action against the registry operator not to pay a bond of $1.6 million requested by a Californian court.
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29 Oct 2001
A US bill effecting anti-terrorism measures has been signed by President Bush and has become law. The House of Senate earlier voted in favour of the bill by a majority of 98 - 1 in line with the majority of 357 – 66 demonstrated by the House of...
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