[eccr] QuickLinks 234 - 11 May 2002

QuickLinks 234 - 11 May 2002

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Legal and regulatory issues

   Audiovisual
1. EU - Brussels moves on advertising rules in France

   Competition
2. EU / Germany - Commission suspects Deutsche Telekom of
overcharging for access to its local network

   Computer crime
3. Deutschland - Bundesweiter Schlag gegen Kinderpornoring
4. España - La Guardia Civil clausura dos sitios con pornografía
infantil
5. UK - Pervert is fined £3000 for internet child porn
6. USA - House Panel OKs Morphed Kid Porn Ban
7. USA - Man Gets 12 Years In 'Candyman' Child-Porn Sweep
8. USA - New Jersey Online Child-Porn 'Sting' Touches 16 Countries

   Consumer protection
9. USA - Juno Settles With NY Over Online Supercomputer Project

   Content regulation
10. China - Shanghai cybercafes shut down
11. USA - Furor Over Internet Game
12. USA - Move to outlaw sales of NC-17 games to minors

   Convergence of telecommunications, media and information technology
13. UK - media changes open way for overseas owners

   Copyright, trademarks and patents
14. Deutschland - Justizministerium fordert neue Verhandlungsrunde
zu Urheberabgaben
15. France - Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick
16. Thank Philips for Standing Up to Hollywood
17. USA - Judge Says Russian Firm To Be Charged In E-Book Case

   Data Protection (privacy)
18. France - Les profileurs du Net traquent les internautes à leur
insu

   Domain names
19. EU - .eu Regulation published
20. ICANN - Net Governance Body Eases Off Government Involvement
21. USA - False Web Registration Ban Targets Scam Artists
22. USA - Welcome to Our Law School, Young Man. We'll See You in Court

   e-Government
23. USA - Web site to put gov't rules under one roof

   Hotlines
24. Internet Hotlines as Evaluation Institutions

   Junk mail (spam)
25. USA - The Constitution And Spam

   Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
26. Deutschland - Abmahnungen gegen Online-Archive
27. España - La LSSI ha sido aprobada por el Congreso
28. USA - Dirty Sites Jittery After Ruling

   Protection of minors
29. Deutschland - Schärfere Jugendschutzbestimmungen für neue Medien
beschlossen
30. Belgium's silent heart of darkness
31. UK - Video on demand faces glare of regulators
32. USA - Too Broad a Ban on Child Models?

   Racism and xenophobia
33. USA - CDT, Public Interest Groups File Brief in Yahoo! Case

   Rating and filtering
34. Australia - Web filtering orders for ISPs
35. UK - BBC debuts family friendly search engine

   Safer Internet awareness
36. Council of Europe - Education and Awareness in order to Increase
Internet Literacy
37. Germany - Internet Responsibility at Schools
38. USA - Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

   Security and encryption
39. OECD will "Kultur der Netzwerk-Sicherheit" begründen
40. USA - Playing the ID Card

   Self-regulation / codes of conduct
41. EU - Consumer Protection - soft law
42. GBDe - Statement of principles on cyber ethics
43. Internet Codes of Conduct and Model Code

   Taxation and tariffs
44. EU - Council applies VAT to electronically delivered services

Market & Technology

   Market
45. Deutschland - KirchPayTV beantragt Insolvenz
46. USA - Jupiter Analyst, RIAA Trade Barbs Over P2P Findings

   Statistics
47. Baltic States - Internet usage rises
48. EU - Europeans and culture: main findings of a Eurobarometer
survey
49. More Asians Surfing for Internet Porn
50. USA - Net Traffic Doubles, But Growth's Pace Is Slowing

   Technology
51. A cookieless Web monitor?
52. File sharing pirates go underground
53. Grid to Revolutionize Video Gaming Industry?

Useful addresses

54. Intellectual Property - Video - HDTV/BPDG/Digital
Television/Digital Cable
55. Journal of Information, Law and Technology
56. SmartID

QuickLinks
Links to news items about legal and regulatory aspects of Internet
and the information society, particularly those relating to
information content, and market and technology.


QuickLinks is edited by Richard Swetenham
(richard.swetenham /at/ cec.eu.int) - Main Sources and Contributors: Michael
Geist BNA - ILN, cybertelecom.org, jugendschutz.net, David Goldstein,
Gerhard Heine

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