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Spring Cleaning: Cutting Gristle from Spam in E-mail Campaigns

D. Reed Freeman Jr.

The FTC has repeatedly expressed concern that increased volume of spam affects ISPs, inconveniences consumers and, to the extent that such e-mail is fraudulent, undermines consumer confidence in e-commerce.

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Beware Hidden Dangers On Third-Party Services Sites

Marie Flores

Adding third-party links for tax services to corporate Web sites can be a great way to attract new customers and generate extra income during the tax season. These links often generate income for the company agreeing to host the link to its corporate Web site.

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No Electronic Theft Act Is A Partial Success

Eric Goldman & Julia Alpert Gladstone

In 1997, the No Electronic Theft Act radically changed the underpinnings of criminal copyright infringement. Before the act, criminal copyright infringement targeted infringers making profits. The act focuses instead on copyright owners' losses, treating criminal copyright infringement as a type of theft ' like shoplifting.

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Developments of Note

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

Recent developments in e-commerce law and in the e-commerce industry.

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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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