Computer law Computer law The ABA digital signature guidelines are a set of guidelines published on 1 August 1996 by the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Science and Technology Law. The authors are members of the Section's Information Security Committee. The document was the first overview of principles and a framework for the use of digital signatures and authentication in electronic commerce from a legal viewpoint, including technologies such as certificate authorities and public key infrastructure (PKI). The guidelines were a product of a four-year collaboration by 70 lawyers and technical experts from a dozen countries, and have been adopted as the model for legislation by some states in the US, including Florida and Utah. ...more on Wikipedia about "ABA digital signature guidelines"
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 35 F.3d 1435 ( 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems. Some critics claimed that Apple was really attempting to gain all intellectual property rights over the desktop metaphor for computer interfaces, and perhaps all GUIs, on personal computers. Apple lost all claims in the lawsuit, except that the court ruled that the trash can icon and file folder icons from Hewlett-Packard's now-forgotten NewWave windows application were infringing. The lawsuit was filed in 1988 and lasted four years; the decision was affirmed on appeal in 1994, and the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Apple was denied. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp."
In December 2004, Apple Computer filed a lawsuit in Santa Clara county against unnamed individuals who allegedly leaked information about new Apple products to several online news sites, including AppleInsider and PowerPage. The articles at issue concerned a FireWire audio interface for GarageBand, codenamed Asteroid or Q7. In addition, Apple filed a separate trade secret suit against Think Secret' on January 4 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apple v. Does"
Barbara Nitke is an internationally known photographer who specializes in the subject of human sexual relations, especially in the BDSM community. Her work has been exhibited and collected for over 20 years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Nitke"
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. The Center sponsors conferences, visiting lecturers, and residential fellows. Members of the Center do research and write books, articles, weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds, for which the Center holds the specification, and podcasts, of which the first series took place at the Berkman Center. The Center's headquarters is a small Victorian wood-frame building next to the bigger brick-and-stone Harvard Law School buildings. Its newsletter, "The Filter", is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty, students and Berkman Center affiliates. The Berkman Center is funding the Openlaw project, and is a co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berkman Center for Internet & Society"
Blizzard v. bnetd was a case in the United States federal court system brought by Blizzard Entertainment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blizzard v. BnetD"
Two of the most common free software licenses are the BSD and GPL licenses. There has been continuing discussion over the relative merits of the use of either license in free software projects. ...more on Wikipedia about "BSD and GPL licensing"
The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-187, was S.877 of the 108th Congress), signed into law by President Bush on December 16, 2003, establishes the United States' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce its provisions. The acronym CAN-SPAM derives from the bill's full name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003. Critics of the law's perceived weaknesses sometimes refer to it as You CAN SPAM. ...more on Wikipedia about "CAN-SPAM Act of 2003"
CeCILL (from "CEA CNRS INRIA Logiciel Libre") is a Free Software license adapted to both International and French legal matters, in the spirit of and retaining compatibility with the GNU General Public License. ...more on Wikipedia about "CeCILL"
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is a Washington, DC based non-profit advocacy group that works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the Digital Age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Center for Democracy and Technology"
The Children's Internet Protection Act, also known as CIPA, is one of a number of bills that the United States Congress has proposed in an attempt to limit children's exposure to pornography and other controversial material online. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced the bill that would become CIPA to the United States Senate in 1999. After various Representatives repeatedly introduced it to the United States House of Representatives, a final version cleared both houses and passed as part of an omnibus spending bill on December 15, 2000. President William Jefferson Clinton signed it into law on December 21, 2000, and it was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 2003 despite the American Library Association (ALA)'s attempt to have it declared unconstitutional. ...more on Wikipedia about "Children's Internet Protection Act"
A clickwrap agreement (also known as a "clickthrough" agreement or clickwrap license) is a common type of software license found on the Internet. A clickwrap agreement legally similar to " shrink wrap contract." ...more on Wikipedia about "Clickwrap"
* Providing free access to the source code for anyone, anywhere, at any time ...more on Wikipedia about "Collaborative Source license"
The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was Title V of the United States' Telecommunications Act of 1996. It was introduced to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation by senators James Exon (D-NE) and Slade Gorton (R-WA) in 1995. It was approved by an 84-16 vote on June 14, 1995. As passed by Congress, Title V affected the Internet (and online communications) in two signficant ways. First, it attempted to regulate both indecency (when available to children) and obscenity in cyberspace. Second, Section 230 of the Act declared that operators of Internet services were not to be construed as publishers (and thus legally liable for the words of third parties who use their services). ...more on Wikipedia about "Communications Decency Act"
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Computer Crime, E-Crime, Hi-Tech Crime or Electronic Crime is a where a computer is the target of a crime or is the means adopted to commit a crime. Most of these crimes are not new. Criminals simply devise different ways to undertake standard criminal activities such as fraud, theft, blackmail, forgery, and embezzlement using the new medium, often involving the Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computer crime"
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a law passed by the United States Congress in 1986 intended to reduce " hacking" of computer systems. It was amended in 1994, 1996 and in 2001 by the USA PATRIOT Act. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act"
The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is a non-governmental organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1995. It deals with issues related to the effects of intellectual property on public health, cyberlaw and e-commerce, and competition policy. It has fought the Microsoft monopoly, the ICANN monopoly, software patents, and business method patents. It has supported free software in government, open access for the Internet, and privacy regulation. CPTech works on access to medicines, including a major effort on compulsory licensing of patents. Beginning in 2002, CPTech began to work with Tim Hubbard and others on a new trade framework for medical research and development (R&D). In the context of current bilateral agreements, this is referred to as R&D+, which in contrast to TRIPS+ approaches. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consumer Project on Technology"
The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ...more on Wikipedia about "Creative Commons"
Crypto-anarchism is a philosophy that expounds the use of strong public-key cryptography to enforce privacy and therefore individual freedom. Crypto-anarchists aim to create virtual communities where everyone is absolutely anonymous or pseudonymous. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crypto-anarchism"
Cyber law encompasses a wide variety of political and legal issues related to the Internet and other communications technology, including intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyber law"
Cybersquatting is a derogatory term used to describe the practice of registering and claiming rights over Internet domain names that are, arguably, not for the taking. The cybersquatter then offers the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price, an act which some deem to be extortion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cybersquatting"
A data haven is a computer or a network that holds data protected by both technical means ( encryption) and location in a country that has either no laws, or poorly-enforced laws against the most common uses of data havens and no extradition treaties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Data haven"
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law. The act criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. Passed on May 14, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998, the DMCA amended title 17 of the US Code to extend the reach of copyright, while limiting the liability of Online Providers from copyright infringement by their users. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital Millennium Copyright Act"
The United States The Digital Transition Content Security Act (DTCSA, H.R. 4569) is a bill introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr., a Wisconsin Republican, on December 16, 2005. The bill was backed by Democratic Rep. John Conyers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital Transition Content Security Act"
The European Union (EU) Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (2002/0047/COD) was a proposal for an EU law which aimed to harmonise EU national patent laws and practices, which involved the granting of patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions"
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