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e-Commerce Docket Sheet

Julian S. Millstein, Edward A. Pisacreta & Jeffrey D. Neuburger

Recent court rulings in e-commerce.

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E-Commerce Rising

Michael Lear-Olimpi

What does a cash-register ka-ching sound like online? It's the tune of $45.6 billion. That's the estimated e-commerce sales ring-up for 2002, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported in February. The activity represented an estimated increase in total e-commerce revenues from 2001 to 2002 of 3.1%.

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European Data Privacy Rights ' Not So Scary After All

Simon Smith

Most e-commerce businesses and advisers outside Europe are generally aware that the European Union has what appear to be some strange and intricate laws relating to data privacy.

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UCITA Revealed

Marie Flores

UCITA was drafted as a revision to the UCC ' a body of law adopted in almost every U.S. state that aims to ensure consistency in rules governing contract laws. After losing the support of the American Law Institute, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws adopted the proposed new article as a freestanding uniform act (UCITA), rather than as a new article to the UCC, and proposed the uniform law be passed in all 50 states.

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MonsterHut Decision: Weapon of Mass Destruction?

D. Reed Freeman Jr.

Earlier this year, a New York trial judge issued the first written opinion on the meaning of the terms permission based and opt-in in the context of e-mail marketing.

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DEVELOPMENTS OF NOTE

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The Small Webcaster Settlement Act (Pub.L. 107-321) became law in December. It provides for alternative royalty-rate setting among certain small and noncommercial Webcasters by agreement with receiving agent designated by the copyright office to accept royalty payments for works covered by sound recording copyrights.

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Maturing Internet Leads to Fewer Domain-Name Squabbles

Tamara Loomis

The wild wild Web is getting tamed. Cybersquatters no longer freely roam its highways looking for easy marks and trademark owners who once went after anyone who crossed their path are now choosing their battles much more carefully.

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e-Commerce DOCKET SHEET

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A notice accompanying packaged and downloadable software purporting to restrict purchasers from publishing product reviews or disclosing benchmark test results without seller's permission is unenforceable and may be sanctionable under New York law prohibiting deceptive business acts and practices (People v. Network Associates Inc., No. 400590/02, N.Y. Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. Jan. 14, 2003).

e-Commerce is Up ' and So Are Complaints of Identity Theft Image

e-Commerce is Up ' and So Are Complaints of Identity Theft

Michael Lear-Olimpi

e-Commerce has become a mainstream staple, research from the private sector and the government indicates.

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US Objects to ABA's Proposed Model Definition on the Practice of Law

Michael Lear-Olimpi

When the American Bar Association (ABA) released its draft Model Definition of the Practice of Law in September 2002, nonlaywers performing some legal-related tasks weren't alone in taking alarmed notice.

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