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Top Ten Internet Law Developments of 2012
I'm pleased to share my list of top 10 developments of 2012: #10: The Push Towards Anti-Class Action Arbitration Clauses. In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion that...
View ArticleOntario Court Rejects U.S. Government Demand for Full Access to Megaupload...
Many readers will recall that nearly one year ago, the U.S. government launched a global takedown of Megaupload.com, with arrests of the leading executives in New Zealand and the execution of search...
View ArticleDial "L" for Liability - Sec. 230 Protects Online Service for Errant Phone...
The Communications Decency Act has been described as the greatest Internet law. The first major Internet law designed to censor the Internet actually enabled the interactive Internet. While the...
View ArticleGerman Court Rules People Have Right to Claim Compensation for ISP Outages
A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an 'essential' part of life. The...
View ArticlePandora's Box - New US Cyber Security Bills Create a Worm Hole in the...
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable...
View ArticleThinking Carefully About New gTLD Objections: String Confusion (Part 1 of 4)
Since speaking last fall on community-based TLDs at the New gTLD Summit in Los Angeles, I have been asked a number of times to provide input on the objections ICANN allows in its New gTLD Applicant...
View ArticleInternet and the Telecommunication Acts of 1900
On his blog Bruce Schneier recently published a post called "Power and the Internet". An article that most people in the western world will agree with. Internet freedom against Internet safety and...
View ArticleACCC Loses Court Case: Google Not Responsible for Content Paid Adds
In a court case running since 2007 Australia's High Court judged Google not responsible for the content of paid ads it presented after an end user's search request. In the example Reuters gives a car...
View ArticleRon Paul Caught in Domain Dispute with Supporters
Former U.S. presidential candidate and congressman Rob Paul has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against the registrants of RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org in order to...
View ArticleThinking Carefully About New gTLD Objections: Limited Public Interest (Part 2...
The second installment in my four-part series on New gTLD objections (see part 1) will focus on the limited public interest ("LPI") variety. The overarching theme however is essentially the same: new...
View ArticleThinking Carefully About New gTLD Objections: Community (3 of 4)
My third installment regarding gTLD objections — and understanding exactly what's required for an objector to prevail — moves to the more complex community-based objections. For those getting their...
View ArticleQuestions on the Debate on 'Closed Generic' gTLD Applications
ICANN is currently seeking public comment on the subject of "closed generic” gTLD applications. It asks "whether specific requirements should be adopted corresponding to this type of application”. It...
View ArticleTime to Take Stock: Twelve Internet and Jurisdiction Trends in Retrospect
With the growing tension between the cross-border Internet and the patchwork of national jurisdictions, it becomes crucial to keep track of key global trends that drive the debate on appropriate...
View ArticleThinking Carefully About New gTLD Objections: Legal Rights (4 of 4)
This last article on the four new gTLD objections will look at the Legal Rights Objection ("LRO"). While other articles in this series have touched on trademark concepts at certain points (see part...
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Research Group Releases International Law on Cyber Warfare Manual
Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber WarfarePaperback / ISBN:9781107613775Publication date: March 2013The newly released handbook applies the practice of international law with...
View ArticleTo Tax or Not to Tax
The Writing's On The Wall Well it is not new that the US has always maintained that the Internet should be a tax free zone as per the US Congress's Tax Freedom Act 1998 (authored by Representative...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing
Much ado about nothing; why the Uniregistry request for antitrust immunity is meaningless and its conclusions misleading With much fanfare last month, Uniregistry announced that proposals for dispute...
View ArticleBreaking Down Silos Doesn't Come Easy
"We need to break down silos", is a phrase often heard in national and international meetings around cyber security and enforcing cyber crime. So it is no coincidence that at the upcoming NLIGF...
View ArticleINTA 2013: Gearing Up for Dallas
The International Trademark Association's Annual Meeting is quickly approaching and we're excited to join the Intellectual Property community to share insights. Since the last meeting, we've been...
View ArticleArrest Made in Connection to Spamhaus DDoS Case
According to a press release by the Openbaar Ministerie (the Public Prosecution Office), a dutch man with the initials SK has been arrested in Spain for the DDoS attacks on Spamhaus. Brian Krebs...
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