Internet Issues Legal Directory
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision dismissing a suit against Southwest Airlines for failing to ensure that its website conformed with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Case does not address whether a website consititutes a public place of accommodation. The court ruled that a technicality prevented the Americans with Disabilities Act from applying in the particular case.
News from the ACLU on privacy and data protection
Developers of software to block ads, pop-ups, etc. Some of these tools are offered fro free
Automatically locates the appropriate "whois" database server for a particular domain name, queries that database for information about that domain name, and returns all available data
AOL lists links to litigation and decisions involving AOL's attempts to prosecute spammers
LA Times article regarding suit against spammer. Christopher William Smith, 25, was ordered to pay $5.3 million, or $25,000 for every day he sent out spam e-mails, plus $287,059 for America Online's legal fees
FTC making Internet privacy and Spam more of a priority according to June 2004 Cnet article
Article discussing registering domain names for profit, rules for registering domain names
The general principle of linking to another Web site not resulting in copyright infringement may not apply where the defendant also has "extensive involvement" in the linked-to site's content. In this case the links were to third party thumb-nail images, thereby utilizing third party resources.
Research program exploring the Internet and how to inhance it
The Google cache feature is not an infringement on US copyright law. Case includes discussion of common search engine practices and could lead to legal presedence Cache feature does not infringe U.S. copyright law
Judge rules the hyperlink patent is limited to a information on central computer and the Internet is a network of computers
Loss of right of privacy continues as governments collect more information, data on complaints and actions before the courts
From the World Wide Library, information on tracking and cataloging Internet resources
Contains information for librarians with questions about implementing CIPA filtering at their libraries, scholars interested in the legislative history of CIPA, or those interested in the ALA's position on CIPA.
Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? First Amendment and intellectual property laws related to online activities
Computer training articles and informational articles on technology. Forums for help with computer questions
Wired explains the difference between COPA, the Children's On-Line Privacy Act which requires action by web site owners and COPPA which was declared unconstitutional.
Its about design and code theft and what you can/can't do about it.
Learn how and when copyright attaches to a website
Article from News Factor discussing the US Court of Appeals decision (U.S. v. Councilman) stating e-mail stored on an ISP's computers is not protected by federal wiretap laws.
The 6th Circuit Court remanded a case concerning encryption for further determination by the trial court 04/05/00 Wired. Also see Peter D. Junger vs. William Daley, 2000 FED App. 0117P (6th Cir.)
EPIC.org releases the 3rd annual review of encryption policies "Cryptography and Liberty 2000, an International Study of Encryption Policy. Policies listed by country.
Computer Crime (e.g., hacking), Intellectual Property Crime policy and cases; Cybercrime Documents, Cyberethics Information for teachers and students
Links to related work on using distributed systems to achieve availability, as well as links to anonymity, communcation security and Internet payment system projects.
Latest news on cyberspace offered by Findlaw
6th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects agrument and orders transfer of domain name 4ADodge.com
News & events, teaching with documents, conducting research, locating publications. Lesson plans for teachers of technology and government
Guidelines for police and prosecutors in cases involving computer crimes, including court cases involving encryption, PDAs and secret searches (2002)
Domain Magistrate is designed to help you find information regarding domain name disputes, and includes administrative panel decision, docket listings, sample pleadings and more
Provides links to domain name registries around the world listed in alphabetical order. Site links directly to forms to register domains for most of the countries
Provides latest news on domain suits, also a listing of domains for sale, listing of registers of domains and provides some pricing information. Use the Domain Wizard to find an appropriate domain name
State-of-the-art litigation technology to legal professionals for the New Jersey and New York courts
Legal links for telecommunications, tortious speech, obsenity (porn, child porn, etc), computer crime, privacy, copyright, trademark & unfair competition, state issues, non-US law, jurisdiction & miscellaeous
For the University of California
Selected decisions concerning electronic discovery, searchable. Site by Socha Consulting
Eastern PA District Court issued an order that the ISPs must first send their customers detailed notices about RIAA subpoenas, including information about how the accused suspects can contest the subpoenas prior to ISP honoring the subpoenas.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that a federal judge should not have ordered the Interior Department to pull the plug on many of its Internet connections without giving the agency a chance to show it had improved security measures.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Speech, commerce, computer abuse, intellectual property, social justice, basics
FCC says digital voice services offered over the Internet fall under federal regulation and therefore not subject to state public utility regulations
Second part of its report on online profiling by network advertisers.
Privacy on Line, Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace, the Federal Trade Commission's 208 page report to Congress, available for reading or download in Adobe Acrobat Reader format
-Transactions Law, Privacy/Data Protection, Information Security Law, Tax -- U.S. and International. Global Alert newsletter available
AltaVista crawled the web in two massive crawls of over 200 million pages and 1.5 billion links. IBM, Compaq and AltaVista teamed up to develop a collaborative paper on the graphical structure of the Web and produce an intricate diagram of the Web
Internet service provider cannot use CDA to shield itself from trademark infringement liability
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court decision involving an ECPA claim against Earthlink over the suspension of a subscriber account on suspicion of spam. The subscriber argued that the ISP illegally intercepted his email. The court ruled that Earthlink's action did not constitute an interception.
A community committed to offering free computer help and tutorials, in a way that everyone can understand, not "geek-speak".
List of registrars accredited by ICANN, affliates not listed
Information brokers allegedly used deception to obtain consumers' confidential financial information
By Perkins Coie LLP, a compilation of cases designed to bookmark, collate and monitor important developments in Internet law, including cases that have significant implications for Internet legal issues even if they are not directly related to the Internet
Partnership between FBI, National White Collar Crime Center and Bureau of Justice Assistance
From Bitlaw, information regarding the development of Cyberspace law as it grows, including domains and trademark infringement, ISP liability, Website development legal issues, domain name disputes, linking
Links to legal resources in 32 categories
Features extensive summaries of over 470 court decisions shaping the law of the web; providing facts, analysis and pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those involved in New Media addressing copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags, clip-art, defamation, domain name, e-mail, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink-wrap licenses, spamming and other subjects.
Links to sites with Internet related statistics
Obstacles to the free flow of information online examines the status of online speech around the world, including governmental measures to squelch information and countermeasures used by citizens to bypass censorship. Article along with links to each country's sysnopsis
Email Usage Policies Part 1 of a 3 part series on Internet Usage Policies in the Workplace
Guide to Citation Style Guides
Information about telemarketing, email, spam, privacy, faxes, collection of private information
9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that accessing a secure private web site may constitute violation of federal wiretap laws, stating that contents of secure sites constitute "electronic communications" in intermediate storage and are thus covered by the law
ICANN split decision, from earlier case refused to transfer the stmoritz.com domain
It may be a report from 2000, but pay attention, many of the same dot cons continue year after year
When using others' graphics, deep links and frames to get to other sites is allowed, and when it can lead to trouble.
Decisions under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
Realtime Blackhole List, comprehensive, list of IP addresses of known sources of unsolicited commercial and bulk email (a.k.a. spam). Look up IP address to find how its listed for Spam abuse or nominate an IP to be added.
U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of a lower court stating the ACPA provides for in rem jurisdiction only in the judicial district in which the registrar, registry, or other domain-name authority that registered or assigned the disputed domain name is located
Memorandum Of Understanding On Mutual Enforcement Assistance In Consumer Protection Matters Between The Federal Trade Commisison Of The United States of America And Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Trade And Industry And The Director General Of Fair Trading In The United Kingdom 2000
Cable companies do not have to share their lines with rival providers of high-speed Internet service. Cable companies are exempt from rules covering telephone companies' requirement to share lines.
Washington Post story revealing how social security numbers may be obtained for a small fee and how the Internet makes this information even more readily available
Discussion of privacy invasive technology used to track web site visitors clicking on ads
A North Carolina man was sentenced under a Virginia law to nine years in prison for sending hundreds of thousands of unwanted e-mail messages
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision granting a TRO over the domain northernlights.com. The TRO instructed Northern Lights (who registered their domain name after NorthernLight.com search engine) to remove all content from the northernlights.com site and post in its place a blacked-out screen containing to links to three websites: (1) flairmail.com; (2) plaintiff's northernlight.com site; and (3) the content page that formerly existed at northernlights.com
Marks Composed, in whole or part, of Domain Names for Intellectual property issues concerning domain names and content
To combat spyware, analyses from 2,147,213 pest reports submitted by PestPatrol users in the past 4 weeks, information on 124,146 pest objects (registry entries, directories, files), descriptions of 20,844 pests, and more. News, trends, analysis, whitepapers
Prosecuting Crimes Facilitated by Computers and by the Internet
Privacy information and links to tools
Financial privacy, identity theft, FOIA, Homeland Security, HIPPA, subscription, fee based newsletter
Analyze your computer for privacy, find out what others can glean from your visit to an Internet site.
Subscription-only newsletter Covering privacy & Freedom of Information Law And policy.
Information for the publishing community - publishers, authors, editors, web masters, and freelancers, legal articles addressing Internet Law, Copyright, Trademarks, Contracts, Public Domain, Fair Use and Privacy.
A public educational website covering a wide variety of financial scams and frauds, including wacky prime bank frauds, exotic foreign currency scams, offshore investment frauds, tax scams, Pure Trust structures and more.
RgreatHosts offers domain name availability checking and registration
Internet ScamBusters Helps You Protect Yourself From Clever Scams -- Online and Offline... Note to the wise, instead of passing around all those emails about stolen kidneys and needles in theater seats - check here to see if its a scam first
Testing authentication schemes for email that are being proposed by companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo! as well as numerous open source community projects.
Duke University Law Journal Article by Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky discussing recent suits over anonymous postings on the Internet which not only serve to hold people accountable, but also threaten legitimate criticism
Take advantage of the information gathered to make your own experience on the Internet better.
Article on fighting spam emails
In 1998, Washington State enacted ESHB 2752, which regulates the sending of Junk E-Mail to Washington Residents. This site explains the new law and it's updates
A quick tutorial on things to watch out for and now to identify some spoof (fake) emails
Article by attorney Dennis Kennedy providing food for thought on issues involved with setting up an e-commerce site.
Created by Netizens to advocate for a legislative solution to the problem of UCE (a/k/a "spam").
Article on privacy and what we lose through the Internet
U.S. District Court, Central District of California 2000 case involving deep linking
Latest information for international travelers
Federal Circuit Court of Appeal has remanded a case back to the district court to reconsider a decision to decline a case on jurisdictional grounds. Issues include: how frequently the interactive features of the defendant's Web sites are utilized, whether any District of Columbia residents used that Web site to transact business, how much control, if any, the defendant has over the content of third-party sites hyperlinking to its products, and whether any actual sales of infringing products occurred in the forum.
Monitering email content not violation of criminal wiretap laws
WIPO report states US may keep some restrictions on Internet gambling, but concluded that some US legislation discriminates against foreign operators and violates international trade agreements.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals case discussing web based evidence, hearsay and authentication.
Fenn v. Mleads Enterprises reinstates lower court's finding that Utah does not have jurisdiction over out of state emailers.
Notice published on the Internet not sufficient
4th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds awarding domain name vw.com to Volkswagon
State of Washington's Anti-spam law holds up. A spammer cannot avoid liability by claiming that he did not know that some of the spam messages would end up in Washington state resident in-boxes.
Pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.
Basic design principles as well as tricks of the trade, ranging from interaction design to typography, so that you can develop your own Web site or better understand and communicate with the people
