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Despite law, few people use e-signatures

Despite law, few people use e-signatures
Most people are still putting pen to paper these days, despite a law signed by former President Clinton nearly two years ago that made electronic signatures the legal equivalent of traditional signatures. The technology certainly exists, but the promise of e-signatures has fizzled in the face of security concerns, competing e-signature standards and the fact that people still like to handle paper when it comes to big deals.

Posted by rshah on April 17, 2002| Comments (0)

Taming the Web

Taming the Web
How the internet can be regulated by Charles Mann

Posted by rshah on August 14, 2001| Comments (0)

Survey About Accountability Online

Survey About Accountability Online
There is a strong desire on the part of the public to have their values respected as the technology developed and some markers laid out as to what those values are," Markle's president, Zo‘ Baird, said. "People are looking for more democratic decision-making in a medium that has such widespread consequences for our personal and civic lives."

Posted by rshah on July 10, 2001| Comments (0)

Online Music Services Besieged

Online Music Services Besieged
The half-dozen lawsuits--including ones against Napster Inc., MP3.com and now Launch Media Inc.--have narrowed the services that can be offered without a license from the labels, while also setting a high price for licenses. The suits are having a chilling effect on the online music business, slowing dozens of entrepreneurs who wanted to sell music in new and intriguing ways.

Posted by rshah on May 29, 2001| Comments (0)

Automating contracts: Will companies sign on?

Automating contracts: Will companies sign on?
A handful of upstart software companies are seeking to automate one of the thorniest issues for many businesses: management of legal contracts and agreements.

Posted by rshah on April 26, 2001| Comments (0)

Web Site terms of service agreements

Web Site terms of service agreements
The ubiquitous, legalistic documents posted on every big site -- from Amazon to Yahoo -- are rarely read by anyone, yet they often grant sweeping rights to companies. Or do they? Legal experts say the soundness of such terms is shaky at best. They say that many of their clauses might stand up in court, but not without a fight. And the more "reaching" clauses, such as Microsoft's claim to own all your bits, would likely be thrown out entirely.

Posted by rshah on April 06, 2001| Comments (0)

Legal Law Directory of Links

Legal Law Directory of Links
based on the Open Directory Project

Posted by rshah on March 29, 2001| Comments (0)

Vigilante Justice for CyberCriminals

Vigilante Justice for CyberCriminals
Michael O'Neill aruges that private vigilante justice should be employed to reduce cybercrime. Just as settlers in the old west couldn't necessarily rely upon the local sheriff to provide good crime control, similarly Internet users may have to rely upon private parties for preventing crime and enforcing certain criminal norms. Private vigilante efforts by Internet companies may be the best situation to fend off attacks and to retaliate in kind.

Posted by rshah on March 19, 2001| Comments (0)

AFFECT Formed to Fight UCITA

AFFECT Formed to Fight UCITA
FFECT is composed of a variety of organizations, including, from the ACM, EFF to several big companies outside the computer industry, see also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on February 26, 2001| Comments (0)

Michigan Considers a Cybercourt

Michigan Considers a Cybercourt
To lure technology companies to Michigan, Gov. John Engler wants to establish a separate "cybercourt" for cases involving technology and high-tech businesses, where virtually everything would be done via computer rather than in a courtroom, see also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on February 22, 2001| Comments (0)

What happens to email and web pages after someone die

Posted by rshah on February 19, 2001| Comments (0)

Cable telecommunications regulation and technology (like vendor web sites)

Posted by rshah on February 05, 2001| Comments (0)

Tough Times for Data Robots

Tough Times for Data Robots
Now a federal judge in Manhattan has picked up on the trespass idea and altered its requirements a bit, making it even easier for companies to use the law to stop the pesky software critters, some lawyers say

Posted by rshah on January 16, 2001| Comments (0)

Justice Department Updates Cybercrime Guidelines

Justice Department Updates Cybercrime Guidelines
Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations

Posted by rshah on January 12, 2001| Comments (0)

AOLÕs PipeDream

AOLÕs PipeDream
Top antitrust lawyer Joe Sims says the AOL-Time Warner partnership gives the Feds a chance to get their mitts on the pipes.

Posted by rshah on November 21, 2000| Comments (0)

Counterfeiting using computers

Posted by rshah on November 16, 2000| Comments (0)

CYBERLAW AND THE COMMERCE CLAUSE

CYBERLAW AND THE COMMERCE CLAUSE
An interesting assessment of the challenge to NY's prohibition on Internet sales of tobacco. The article highlights the growing use of the commerce clause to challenge state Internet regulation.

Posted by rshah on October 24, 2000| Comments (0)

California governor signs computer crimes bill

California governor signs computer crimes bill
Computer hackers who intentionally spread computer viruses will soon face harsher penalties under a bill signed today by California Gov. Gray Davis.

Posted by rshah on October 04, 2000| Comments (0)

UK law on Regulation of Investigatory Power (RIP) for access to Internet communications

Posted by rshah on September 13, 2000| Comments (0)

Linking an analysis as a result of the DeCSS case

Posted by rshah on September 11, 2000| Comments (0)

Lawyers teaching Geeks the way the law works

Lawyers teaching Geeks the way the law works
From Suck, see also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on September 11, 2000| Comments (0)

Swapping water rights online

Posted by rshah on September 08, 2000| Comments (0)

Is Litigation The Best Way To Tame New Technology?

Is Litigation The Best Way To Tame New Technology?
Role of litigation in regulating technologies, such as the VCR, DVD, and Napster, by NY Times

Posted by rshah on September 06, 2000| Comments (0)

Case matching web sites for legal services

Posted by rshah on September 06, 2000| Comments (0)

Voteauction.com shut down

Posted by rshah on August 25, 2000| Comments (0)

Privacy Laws

Privacy Laws
A Review of Online Privacy: Few Laws Offer Protection by Gigalaw

Posted by rshah on August 19, 2000| Comments (0)

Source Code as Speech

Source Code as Speech
ZDnet article

Posted by rshah on August 19, 2000| Comments (0)

Legal Tips for your Sucks site

Posted by rshah on August 16, 2000| Comments (0)

Liability of Programmers

Liability of Programmers
See also, Slashdot

Posted by rshah on August 08, 2000| Comments (0)

Top legal nonrights on the Web

Top legal nonrights on the Web
Collection of news stories by CNET.com

Posted by rshah on July 09, 2000| Comments (0)

Data Haven: Sealand

Data Haven: Sealand
Hunkered down on a North Sea fortress, a crew of armed cypherpunks, amped-up networking geeks, and libertarian swashbucklers is seceding from the world to pursue a revolutionary idea: an offshore, fat-pipe data haven that answers to nobody.

Posted by rshah on June 29, 2000| Comments (0)