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[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Date set for new domain regime
THE watershed event for Australia's new domain name regime has been
set for July 1.
On that day a raft of changes to the way all names ending in .au are
allocated, sold and managed will take place. Previously restricted
names will become more easily available and Melbourne IT's monopoly
on the provision of .com.au names will end.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4490659%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

JERRYFALWELL LOSES UDRP CLAIM OVER PARODY SITE (from BNA Internet Law
News)
A split WIPO UDRP panel has refused to transfer a domain
name that served as a parody Web site bearing the name of
the Rev. Jerry Falwell.  A majority of the panel ruled that
jerryfallwell.com should not be transferred as Falwell
failed to show trademark rights in his name.  Falwell's
lawyer says he will take his case to the U.S. courts.
Coverage at
http://www.newsadvance.com/MGB0R9QH52D.html
Decision at
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0184.html

Student's pornographic story brings charge 
A Shenendehowa senior faces up to a year in jail for allegedly
depicting fellow students and at least one teacher engaged in sexual
activities in a pornographic story posted on an Internet site,
investigators and prosecutors said Wednesday.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=84284&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=6/6/2002

The Yahoo Case and the International Democratization of the Internet
Fordham University School of Law
Fordham Law & Economics Research Paper No. 11  
This essay examines the French court order requiring Yahoo to prevent
French Internet users from accessing images of Nazi memorabilia
available on its American web site. The essay uses the French case to
challenge the popular belief that an entirely borderless Internet
favors democratic values. Professor Reidenberg starts from the
premise that while the Internet enables actors to reach a
geographically dispersed audience, the Internet should not change the
accountability of those actors for their conduct within national
borders. Professor Reidenberg shows that Yahoo's extensive business
in France justifies the application of France's democratically chosen
law and argues that the decision has important normative implications
for pluralistic democracy on the global network. Namely, the decision
promotes technical changes in the Internet architecture that empower
democratic states to be able to enforce their freely chosen public
policies within their territories. At the same time, the
infrastructure changes will not enhance the ability of non-democratic
states to pursue repressive policies within their territories in
violation of international law. The essay shows the French decision
as a maturing of the Internet regulatory framework and argues that
the policy rules embedded in the technical infrastructure must
recognize values adopted by different states and must not be dictated
by technical elites.
 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=267148

Police to spy on all emails 
Millions of personal emails, other internet information and telephone
records are to be made accessible to the police and intelligence
services in a move that has been denounced by critics as one of the
most wide-ranging extensions of state power over private information.
 http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,730091,00.html

Vietnam steps up fight against anti-government materials on Internet
Authorities in Communist Vietnam's largest city have stepped up their
fight against anti-government materials on the Internet,
state-controlled media reported Saturday.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3428762.htm

Browsing Around for New Targets
Jeffrey Zeldman and the Web Standards Project are back with a wake-up
call for Web developers everywhere: The problem today isn't Microsoft
or Netscape –- it's you.
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53026,00.html

Government accused of 'big brother' tactics
The government wants the list of organisations which have access to
private internet and e-mail correspondence to be vastly increased,
according to reports.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2037000/2037459.stm
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,731074,00.html

UK employees admit to email abuse at work
Jun 06 2002: Around one in six British employers have either fired or
threatened an employee with disciplinary action because of
inappropriate emails sent at work.
 http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358031

Mobile phones 'fuel gorillas' plight'
A UK television film says users of mobile telephones and other
electronic goods are endangering some African ape populations.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2036000/2036217.stm

World Cup website breaks record
Millions of fans scour the net for World Cup news as the Fifa website
becomes the most popular in sporting history.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2036000/2036238.stm

China plans health limits on mobiles
China is considering the world's toughest standards on radiation from
mobiles, but experts say the measures are too draconian to become
law.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2031000/2031442.stm

Commission welcomes UEFA's new policy for selling the media rights to
the Champions League 
The European Commission intends to take a favourable view towards the
draft new rules of UEFA, Europe's soccer governing body, regarding
the sale of the broadcasting and other media rights to the Champions
League. The Commission had objected to the current rules, which had
been notified for regulatory clearance, on the grounds that if a
group of people join forces to sell a given product then that
restricts competition. The rules distorted competition between
broadcasters, encouraged media concentration and stifled the
development of Internet sport services and the new generation of
mobile phones by barring access to key content, which is not in the
broad interest of fans and consumers generally. UEFA's draft new
rules will bring the Champions League media rights within the reach
of Internet content providers and UMTS operators as well as of a
greater number of television and radio companies. Instead of selling
the rights as a bundle to only one broadcaster per country, UEFA will
sell the rights in several packages for shorter periods of time, and
individual football clubs will also be able to exploit some of the
rights with their fan base. 

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/806|0|RAPID&lg=EN

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/806|0|RAPID&lg=ES&display= (Spanish)

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