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[council] FW: Sept 19 -- BNA, Inc. Electronic Commerce & Law Report
Please find below a print out from BNA's Electronic Commerce and Law Report
that states "According to the task force's chairman, two North American
representatives were removed and one from Peru and one from Malaysia were
added."
I have reviewed the minutes of the Sept 8th meeting and saw nothing to the
effect of deleting anyone from the Task Force, but just wanted to confirm
same. Milton, you may want to contact BNA to tell them to get their story
straight.
Also, can someone finally confirm for me whether the addition of the two
people proposed in Montevideo has been officially accepted by the NC.
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ELECTRONIC COMMERCE & LAW REPORT
Highlights & Table of Contents
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
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HIGHLIGHTS
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ICANN'S NEW UDRP REVIEW TASK FORCE TO HANDLE RANGE OF
CONCERNS
The geographical make-up of a task force assembled to review
the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Process becomes
the subject of some controversy at the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers meetings in Montevideo,
Uruguay. According to the task force's chairman, two North
American representatives were removed and one from Peru and
one from Malaysia were added in response to complaints of
overrepresentation of North American interests. . . . Page
983
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4r9z2e7_
BREACH CONTRACT CLAIMS IN LICENSE NOT PREEMPTED BY COPYRIGHT
LAW
Claims of unfair competition and breach of promises made in
a computer program license--which included a confidentiality
clause, a duty to notify the plaintiff of improper use, and
a promise to sue third parties over lost confidential
information--are not preempted by federal copyright law, a
federal district court in New Jersey rules. The court
concludes, in an opinion designated as unpublished, that the
claims asserted by the plaintiff were sufficiently different
from a copyright infringment claim, thus avoiding federal
preemption of the plaintiff's state-law causes of action. .
. . Page 986
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0z9q4_
CANADIAN COURT FINDS IMPLIED LICENSE FOR DOCUMENTS POSTED
ONLINE
For any document published digitally on the Internet there
is an implied license to reproduce or copy that document to
the extent necessary to make personal use of it, a Canadian
federal court rules. At the very least, posting decuments on
the Internet implies authorization to reproduce them to the
extent necessary to convert them from their digital from
into an English text that can be read by people, the court
says. . . . Page 987
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0z2b7_
GAO SAYS POOR MANAGEMENT LEAVES U.S. VULNERABLE TO CYBER
ATTACKS
Critical federal government computer systems continue to be
vulnerable to cyber attacks despite repeated past warnings
by government watchdogs, the General Accounting Office says
in a report released. The GAO, which is the investigative
agency of Congress, blamed poor management at government
agencies for not taking the cyber attack threat seriously. .
. . Page 982
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4r9k5z6_
Lead Report
PRIVACY: The Senate approves a measure that would broaden
the reach of the federal pen register and trap-and-trace
device statute by explicitly including some digital
surveillance technologies--such as the FBI's Carnivore
machine--and by increasing the number of offenses for which
electronic surveillance is available to include violations
of the federal terrorism and computer crime statutes. A few
days later, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft calls for
even more expansion of federal wiretap authority--he wants
orders that cover the suspect rather than the device
employed. . . . Page 980
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1k2w4_
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ALSO IN THE NEWS
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COMPUTER CRIME: European governments have bowed to U.S.
demands for late changes to the draft European Cybercrime
Convention. International law experts agree to include a
"federal clause" in the final version of the convention. . .
. Page 984
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1v1k8_
CONTENT REGULATION: A set of recommendations adopted by the
Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers asks governments
to encourage the development of self-regulatory bodies to
oversee the creation and administration of content labeling
schemes. . . . Page 984
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1p7n3_
TRADEMARKS: WIPO posts a list of the domain names being
challenged under the sunrise challenge procedure created for
the new .info generic top level domain. . . . Page 985
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1a0m6_
ANTITRUST: California and New York's attorneys general say
that any remedy fashioned in the federal and state
governments' case against Microsoft must project into the
future and should include close scrutiny of Windows XP,
Microsoft's latest version of its personal computer
operating system. . . . Page 983
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4r8f0y5_
PRIVACY: Federal regulators have resolved a major privacy
concern for mortgage lenders, saying they can use loan
account numbers to track mortgage documents when they are
listed in public records. . . . Page 985
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0k8j3_
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LEAD REPORT
PRIVACY
Senate bill brings Carnivore under pen register,
trap-and-trace statute; CFAA crimes are predicates . . .
Page 980
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1k2w4_
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NEWS
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ANTITRUST
Two big states urge close scrutiny of Microsoft's Windows
XP release . . . Page 983
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4r8f0y5_
COMPUTER CRIME
Council of Europe agrees to U.S. demand for "federal
clause" in cybercrime treaty . . . Page 984
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1v1k8_
CONTENT REGULATION
CoE recommends developing self-regulatory bodies for
labeling, filtering . . . Page 984
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1p7n3_
INTERNET GOVERNANCE
ICANN forms UDRP review task force to handle wide range
of concerns . . . Page 983
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4r9z2e7_
NETWORK SECURITY
Poor management leaves U.S. agencies vulnerable to cyber
attacks, GAO reports . . . Page 982
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4r9k5z6_
PRIVACY
Lenders can put loan account numbers on mortgage
documents in public records . . . Page 985
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0k8j3_
TRADEMARKS
WIPO posts .info domain sunrise challenge list . . . Page
985
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1a0m6_
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COURT PROCEEDINGS
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COPYRIGHTS
Breach of confidentiality, security promises in license
not preempted by copyright law . . . Page 986
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0z9q4_
Canadian court finds implied license to copy documents
posted on Internet . . . Page 987
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0z2b7_
SECURITIES REGULATION
Internet investment "game" operator must face federal
securities law charges . . . Page 987
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1z3z5_
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TABLE OF CASES
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Guillot v. Arvic Search Services Inc. (Can. Fed. Ct.) . . .
Page 987
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0z2b7_
Operating System Support Inc. v. Wang Laboratories Inc.
(D.N.J.) . . . Page 986
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t0z9q4_
Securities and Exchange Commission v. SG Ltd. (1st Cir.) . .
. Page 987
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a4t1z3z5_
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