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c y b e r l a w r e v i e w The stories are posted in order of what is most current. E-mail any stories you see on the web. Yes, you'll get credit. Oh yeah, anyone willing to do some small icons for me, gratis? As you may have noticed, I haven't updated in quite some time. I've been busy. I'll update more when my schedule clears a little bit. Some of you have asked for a copy of my paper on the GNU-GPL license. It is available, albeit in a less than ideal form, if you will e-mail me. Amazon
Patents "one-click shopping" PWell it looks like the entire e-commerce industry is going to come to a screeching halt now that Amazon.com has patented one-click shopping. You've got to love this if you're a lawyer for Amazon. Look out Barnes & Noble. North Carolina Damns
Spammers PC Week reports in their comedy column that North Carolina has enacted an anti-spamming law that makes it illegal to mass e-mail people using a false e-mail return address. Is this a free speech problem? No Yoohoo
for Yahoo After listening to the stinking lawyers, Yahoo had decided to take away the rights to artistic works made by members of their GeoCities site. After intense backlash, the lawyers were left in the dust in consideration of the possiblity of a boycott. Ahhh, if it were so easy to fight the man. FTC Struggles to Protect
Children Online Interesting article about the trials and tribulations of the FTC as it tries to regulate the Wild Wild WWW. If they manage to get some rules together, it means more legal mumbo jumbo when we go visit websites. Open
Source is not a Trademark So the Open Source Movement is a victim of its own success. Eric S. Raymond and crew are proposing a new way in which Open Source Initiative will certify acceptable licenses. This news comes in light of the PTO's objection to the trademark claim of the Open Source Initiative. Demon.uk Fights the Prudes This ISP is in a battle (it claims) to prevent ISP's from being liable for libel on their site. The problem is that they probably don't have the money to defend the suit, thus their inability to appear at the pre-trial. They won't admit that problem, but it seems logical. |
