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internet news - 21 January
Courts poised to decide Internet `borders'
Two cases nicely foreshadow the major trends of the coming
year Ñ the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 3 declined to
intervene in a copyright dispute involving questions of
jurisdiction on the Internet, and a Norwegian court last
week acquitted an Oslo teenager of criminal wrongdoing for
creating a software program that defeated the encryption
found on DVDs.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035776558381&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
The Law vs. The Internet
When the Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold a 1998 law
extending the term of copyrights, technology news sites and
message boards went into high gear. At its heart, the case
was about money and the intellectual property interests of
media giants and individual artists alike. And it
highlighted key differences among new media giants (often
huge conglomerates owning numerous copyrights), and the
consumers (and their allies in the consumer electronics
industry) who pay to access intellectual property.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A436-2003Jan16.html
Huge rise in complaints about child porn sites
The number of complaints about child pornography sites on
the Internet rose 64 per cent to 17,868 in 2002, according
to the Internet Watch Foundation.
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=3083
Pornographic ads Subject to Crackdown
The Ministry of Information and Communication said Thursday
that following the January 19 implementation of a law
governing the sending of pornographic advertisements
through the Internet to cellular phones, it will mount an
intensive 20-day investigation into sites sending illegal
messages from January 20.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200301/200301160020.html
Gym bans camera phones in locker-rooms
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/14/phone.cams.reut/index.html
The end user: Whose rules will govern this worldwide
Internet?
Every person who uses the Internet should be concerned
about legal developments in the last few weeks that will
affect what everyone everywhere can say and read online.
http://www.iht.com/articles/81729.html
Concerns over progress on cross-border disputes law
The UK’s Advertising Association (AA) has criticised a
European Commission hearing that took place this week on
Rome II, a proposed EU Regulation which would determine
which country’s laws would apply to certain disputes
between parties based in different countries.
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=concernsoverprogre1042130583&area=news
Hong Kong law accused of censoring internet
The Hong Kong Government’s proposals to implement a
controversial law prohibiting “treason, secession, sedition
and subversion or theft of trade secrets” against the
Central People’s Government of China has raised concerns
among civil liberties advocates, who fear that the law
could result in internet restrictions similar to those
applied in China.
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=hongkonglawaccuse1042467464&area=news
On-line pricing error by US hotel chain
When the web site of US hotel giant Starwood offered luxury
bungalows at a South Pacific resort for the erroneous price
of $85 instead of $850 per night, the bookings flooded in.
However, at least 136 people were told that their orders
will not be fulfilled.
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=onlinepricingerro1042642299&area=news
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