[eccr] QuickLinks 238 - 22 June 2002

QuickLinks 238 - 22 June 2002

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Legal and regulatory issues

   Computer crime
1. CA - Criminal Code changes receive royal assent
2. FR - Images pédophiles sur Internet : 65 interpellations
3. FR - Images pédophiles sur Internet: prison avec sursis pour un
internaute belge
4. UK - Bar owner fined for child porn
5. UK - GP on child porn charges
6. UK - Public to aid paedophile watch
7. UK - Scotland Yard ruined Internet pornography in the UK
8. US - 'Dear Abby' Confessor Sentenced for Pornography
9. US - Charges filed in Web sex ring
10. US - House panel OKs rewritten "virtual" child-porn ban
11. US - Photographer's shots of nude teens ruled not pornographic

   Consumer protection
12. US - Court opens Baby Bells to lawsuits

   Content regulation
13. CN - Beijing closes all cyber cafes
14. L'Internet, toujours moins libre en Tunisie

   Copyright, trademarks and patents
15. Copyright: It's not just a game
16. DE - Kirch stoppt belgische WM-Übertragung im Kabel
17. DE - Suhrkamp zieht Abmahnung wegen Link auf Walser-Roman zurück
18. US - Gemstar Loses Initial Ruling on Patents for TV Guides

   Digital divide
19. U.N. warns on global digital divide

   Domain names
20. FR - Miditext.com : lorsque le droit d'auteur rencontre un
registrar
21. ICANN - Regional Internet Registries' Submission to the
Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform

   e-Government
22. AU - Censor secrecy okay: tribunal

   Employment and social issues
23. Global - Big Brother at the office

   Information society and Internet policy
24. Global - Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash

   Interception
25. UK - Blunkett shelves access to data plans

   Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
26. NL - Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks
27. DE - Büssow und die CSU
28. FFR - Responsabilité pour les forums et liberté d'expression :
l'affaire Pere-Noel.fr
29. FI - ISPs, hackers and porn and pirates

   Protection of minors
30. DE - Umstrittenes Jugendschutzgesetz nimmt letzte Hürde
31. Primer: Children, the Internet, Pornography and the Courts

   Racism and xenophobia
32. CoE - ECRI Annual report 2001

   Rating and filtering
33. UK - Schools filter out porn websites
34. US - Justice Dept. Seeks High Court Review in 'Net Filtering Case
35. US - Peacefire gets under skin of anti-porn filterers

   Safer Internet awareness
36. EU - Aktionsplan gegen "illegale Web-Inhalte"

   Security and encryption
37. Game Consoles - the Next Hacker Target?

   Self-regulation / codes of conduct
38. DE - Benimmregeln für Suchmaschinen-Optimierer und SMS-Werber
39. DE - Die kontrollierte Selbstkontrolle

   Telecommunications
40. EU - Commission launches public consultation on product and
service markets in electronic communications sector
41. UK - Oftel allows BT rivals to offer single bill
42. UK - Watchdog gives BT rivals another boost
43. US - ISPs Organize Against FCC Deregulations

Market & Technology

   Mobile and wireless
44. Global - Watch this airspace

   Portals, browsers and search engines
45. DE - Transparenz im Netz: Suchmaschinen

   Statistics
46. AU - ACCC Issues Broadband Services Figures
47. EU - Online public services: Europe making progress on eGovernment
48. UK - Competitive Analysis of the Publishing Media Sector
49. UK - Public resistance to digital TV grows

Forthcoming events

50. 2002-07-04 FR, Paris - Premiers états généraux du nommage Internet

1. CA - Criminal Code changes receive royal assent (CLE)
A Canadian Bill which amends the Criminal Code to better protect
children from Internet luring and child pornography has received
royal assent. It will be illegal to communicate with a child over the
Internet for the purpose of committing a sexual offence against the
child ("luring"), or to transmit, make available, export and access
child pornography over the Internet. Judges will have more powers to
put a stop to Internet luring and child pornography, including the
authority to order that child pornography be deleted from computer
systems in Canada.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13998.htm

2. FR - Images pédophiles sur Internet : 65 interpellations (TF1)
Soixante-cinq personnes, soupçonnées de détention et d'échange
d'images à caractère pédophile sur Internet, ont été interpellées
dans toute la France. Une fois encore c'est le hasard qui a mis les
forces de l'ordre sur la piste d'un trafic de photos à caractère
pédophile sur le Web. L'enquête, menée par une cellule d'une dizaine
de gendarmes, avait débuté avec la découverte d'images pédophiles sur
l'ordinateur d'un particulier lors d'une perquisition liée à une
toute autre affaire, la revente de jeux vidéo en ligne.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14038.htm

3. FR - Images pédophiles sur Internet: prison avec sursis pour un
internaute belge (AFP)
Un ancien employé d'une université belge qui avait envoyé par
ordinateur des images pédophiles dont certaines ont été reçues par un
adolescent, a été condamné à huit mois de prison avec sursis par un
tribunal de Saint-Dié.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14030.htm

4. UK - Bar owner fined for child porn (BBC)
A Cumbrian businessman who downloaded images of child pornography
from the internet has escaped a prison sentence. Bar owner, David
Jackson, 40, was fined almost £4,000 and placed on the sex offenders'
register for five years.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14026.htm

5. UK - GP on child porn charges (BBC)
A GP has been charged with possessing and making computer-generated
images of child pornography.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14015.htm

6. UK - Public to aid paedophile watch (BBC)
A team of 10 members of the public is to be recruited to help
monitor paedophiles and other criminals, in a new government
initiative. Those selected will work with child protection experts to
decide how sex offenders are managed after their release from prison.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14025.htm

7. UK - Scotland Yard ruined Internet pornography in the UK (Pravda)
A large-scale action against Internet pornography has recently taken
place in Great Britain. The Whitleys family, which was arrested
(British man Thomas and his Russian wife Svetlana), organized
Internet's largest porno-site. The peculiar feature of the site was
the fact that pornographic services were not publicly advertised,
since prostitution is legally banned in the United Kingdom. The
services were offered through escorting agencies: girls were offered
to accompany men at various arrangements
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14013.htm

8. US - 'Dear Abby' Confessor Sentenced for Pornography (Reuters)
A man who confessed his pedophile fantasies to advice columnist
"Dear Abby," who then turned him in to police, pleaded guilty to
child pornography charges. He was sentenced to one year of house
arrest and eight years of probation. He was also told not to use a
computer or the Internet and to have no contact with children.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14024.htm

9. US - Charges filed in Web sex ring (AP)
Two men were arrested for allegedly operating an international Web
site that flagrantly promoted escort services by thousands of
prostitutes.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14034.htm

10. US - House panel OKs rewritten "virtual" child-porn ban (Reuters)
A House of Representatives committee voted to reinstate a recently
rejected ban on Internet child pornography. A more narrowly drafted
bill would outlaw only computer images that were indistinguishable
from actual photographs or movies. Defendants in child-pornography
cases would have to prove that the images in question were entirely
computer generated and not a depiction of actual events.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14022.htm

11. US - Photographer's shots of nude teens ruled not pornographic
(AP)
Quoting D.H. Lawrence, whose novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was
banned in the United States for 30 years, a federal appeals court
ruled that an amateur photographer's pictures of naked teenage girls
were not pornographic.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14023.htm

12. US - Court opens Baby Bells to lawsuits (Wall Street Journal)
A federal appeals court in New York ruled that consumers can sue
their local Baby Bell telephone companies for antitrust violations,
potentially exposing the much-criticized phone companies to a slew of
lawsuits.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14006.htm

13. CN - Beijing closes all cyber cafes (CNN)
The mayor of Beijing has closed down the city's booming Internet
cafes until the government improves safety standards following a fire
which killed 24 people.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14037.htm

14. L'Internet, toujours moins libre en Tunisie (Libération)
Zouhair Yahyaoui, le rédacteur en chef du journal en ligne TUNeZINE,
a été condamné à 28 mois de prison. Il était accusé de «divulgations
de fausses rumeurs» et «utilisation frauduleuse de moyens de
communications».
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14029.htm

15. Copyright: It's not just a game (CNET News.com)
An online game "Carabella", released by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and Privacy aims to teach Web surfers about intellectual
property and privacy issues.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14009.htm

16. DE - Kirch stoppt belgische WM-Übertragung im Kabel (Heise)
Die Kirch-Gruppe hat mit einer einstweiligen Verfügung ein weiteres
Schlupfloch bei der Übertragung von WM-Fußballspielen aus Korea und
Japan geschlossen. Deutsche Zuschauer konnten bis zum Samstag auch
ohne Premiere die WM-Spiele im Kabelnetz beim belgischen
Fernsehsender RTBF sehen.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14045.htm

17. DE - Suhrkamp zieht Abmahnung wegen Link auf Walser-Roman zurück
(Heise)
Der Suhrkamp-Verlag hat seine Abmahnung gegen den Betreiber des
Weblogs Schockwellenreiter.de wegen Veröffentlichung eines Links auf
die im Internet kursierende illegale Kopie des neuen Romans von
Martin Walser zurückgezogen. siehe auch Suhrkamp mahnt Weblog wegen
Walser-Roman ab (Heise) und La règle du jeu (Telepolis).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14036.htm

18. US - Gemstar Loses Initial Ruling on Patents for TV Guides (New
York Times)
gemstar-TV Guide International, the world's leader in developing
electronic television program guides, lost a major patent case
yesterday, in a victory for four of its competitors. An
administrative law judge at the United States International Trade
Commission in Washington ruled that EchoStar Communications, Pioneer,
Sanmina-SCI Systems and Scientific-Atlanta had not infringed
Gemstar's patents while importing and selling advanced television set-
top boxes that offered on-screen program guides. The judge, Paul
Luckern, said that the Gemstar patents in question were valid, but
that Gemstar had misused one of them in an effort to thwart
competition.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14014.htm

19. U.N. warns on global digital divide (AP)
With only a fraction of nearly half the world's nations having
access to telephones, the United Nations' telecommunications agency
has warned that the gap between the information "haves" and "have
nots" will continue to grow without concerted global action.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14033.htm

20. FR - Miditext.com : lorsque le droit d'auteur rencontre un
registrar (Forum des droits sur l'internet)
Le Tribunal de grande instance de Paris a rendu le 31 mai 2002 une
ordonnance sur requête à l'encontre de la société Gandi suite à une
procédure engagée par la Chambre syndicale des éditeurs de musique
dans le but de faire suspendre l'accès à un site offrant fichiers
musicaux, textes et partitions sans autorisation des ayants droit.
L'ordonnance prévoit la redirection par Gandi du nom de domaine vers
une page explicative du site de l'Agence de protection des
programmes. voir aussi FR - Contrefaçons : Gandi contraint de placer
un aiguillage électronique pour détourner les internautes
(legalis.net).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13999.htm

21. ICANN - Regional Internet Registries' Submission to the
Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform (RIPE)
The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) - APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC -
jointly undertake the role of management of IP number resources
through the allocation of IP number resources to network operators
and Local Internet Registries.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14017.htm

22. AU - Censor secrecy okay: tribunal (Australian)
Internet censors will continue their work in secret, following an
Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision to withhold information
about banned content. Electronic Frontiers Australia had requested
access under the Freedom of Information Act to a number of Australian
Broadcasting Authority documents relating to censored websites. But
the ABA refused to release details that identified the nature of the
material. Last week the AAT supported the ABA decision, ruling that
release of the information would have a "substantial adverse effect
on the ABA's ability to administer the co-regulatory scheme" for
internet content. see also ABA welcomes AAT decision on Internet
content (Press Release).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14001.htm

23. Global - Big Brother at the office (Reuters)
Thousands of companies have invested in "employee Internet
management" software that lets them control how their workers are
using the Web.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14010.htm

24. Global - Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash (AP)
The Internet's potential for promoting expression and empowering
citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that
clash with the medium's long-standing culture of openness, some
leading Internet thinkers warned at the annual Internet Society
conference this week in Arlington.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14012.htm

25. UK - Blunkett shelves access to data plans (Guardian)
Ministers were yesterday forced into a humiliating climbdown over
plans to hand a host of public bodies the right to demand access to
the communications records of telephone and internet users. Bowing to
intense public and political pressure, David Blunkett, the home
secretary, admitted that the government had "blundered" into the
issue as he announced that the proposals had been shelved to allow
more consultation. see also UK snoop charter: we're already getting
all the data anyway (The Register).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14041.htm

26. NL - Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks (Slashdot)
The webzine Radikal (mirrored in Holland, because it has been banned
in Germany) published several articles on disabling railroad trains
(in the context of preventing shipments of nuclear materials). A
Dutch judge ordered Indymedia NL on the request of the Deutsche Bahn
to remove some links to radikal from a page on their website. The
links were indirect links (surface links) instead of direct ones to
the articles (deeplinks). see Indymedia Press Release.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14018.htm

27. DE - Büssow und die CSU (Telepolis)
Für seine Versuche, das Internet zu zensieren, erhält der nordrhein-
westfälische Regierungspräsident Büssow Schützenhilfe von der CSU
gegen die eigenen Genossen der SPD.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14031.htm

28. FFR - Responsabilité pour les forums et liberté d'expression :
l'affaire Pere-Noel.fr (Forum sur les droits de l'internet)
Le jugement rendu dans l' "affaire Pere-Noel.fr" (SA Pere-Noel.fr
contre Monsieur F. M., Mademoiselle E. C. et SARL Deviant Network)
par le TGI de Lyon le 28 mai 2002 conclut à la responsabilité des
animateurs d'un forum de discussion sur les propos qui y sont tenus
en condamnant lourdement les responsables du site Defense-
Consommateur.org notamment pour ne pas avoir modéré sur leur espace
de discussion plusieurs messages jugés injurieux ou diffamatoires à
l'encontre d'un cybermarchand. Tous vos commentaires de l'affaire et
des questions qu'elle soulève sont les bienvenus sur ce forum.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14002.htm

29. FI - ISPs, hackers and porn and pirates (Reuters)
At the request of software piracy monitors at Business Software
Alliance, a Finnish judge has ordered the Internet Service Provider
(ISP) Jippii Group to shut down a customer's Web site that allegedly
helped others to scam bootlegged software. Jippii had repeatedly
denied BSA requests to take down the site, maintaining it would
protect its customer until the anti-piracy group could conclusively
prove that the site was distributing serial numbers required to crack
popular business software programs. The BSA issued 4,400 notice and
"takedown" requests in Europe last year, mainly to ISPs suspected of
hosting a site trafficking elicit copies of copyrighted software.
some in the ISP community are calling for the adoption of a standard
code of practice outlining how it should react to protect its
customers and itself from mounting legal liabilities.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14019.htm

30. DE - Umstrittenes Jugendschutzgesetz nimmt letzte Hürde (Heise)
Nach dem Bundestag hat nun auch die Vertretung der Bundesländer dem
Koalitionsentwurf für ein neues Jugendschutzgesetz zugestimmt. Damit
nahm das umstrittene Gesetz, mit dem nach Ansicht der Politik
Jugendliche künftig besser vor Gewaltdarstellungen im Internet und
bei Computerspielen geschützt werden sollen, in geradezu
atemberaubendem Tempo alle parlamentarischen Hürden. Das Gesetz tritt
zeitgleich mit dem neuen Ländermedienstaatsvertrag in Kraft - dieser
muss aber noch von den Ministerpräsidenten unterzeichnet werden.
siehe auch Bundestag verabschiedet umstrittenes Jugendschutzgesetz
(Heise). Alle neue Medien, beispielsweise Internetseiten, können
künftig auf den Index gesetzt werden. Die Verbotsliste soll nicht
mehr veröffentlicht werden, um einen unerwünschten Werbeeffekt zu
vermeiden, sondern nur den Behörden und Entwicklern von
Filterprogrammen zugänglich gemacht werden.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14032.htm

31. Primer: Children, the Internet, Pornography and the Courts
(washingtonpost.com)
Over the past six years, lawmakers have strived in many different
ways to regulate porn on the Internet, with a recent U.S. Supreme
Court ruling on the validity of the controversial Child Online
Protection Act (COPA) only the latest development. The result is a
bewildering assortment of laws and legal salvos that, at least in
theory, protect children from material that some communities consider
unsuitable. COPA is only one of a group of laws or bills abbreviated
as CIPA, CPPA, CDA - and two different bills called COPPA.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14007.htm

32. CoE - ECRI Annual report 2001 (Council of Europe)
European  Commission against Racism and Intolerance.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14039.htm

33. UK - Schools filter out porn websites (BBC)
Education authorities across south west Wales have tightened
procedures to try and prevent school children accessing internet porn
sites. Swansea's education department launched an inquiry after
children as young as 10 logged on to a hard core porn site during a
computer studies course.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14020.htm

34. US - Justice Dept. Seeks High Court Review in 'Net Filtering
Case (washingtonpost.com)
In a case that tests the limits of constitutional free speech rights
on the Internet, the Bush administration today asked the U.S. Supreme
Court to uphold a law that denies federal funds for public libraries
that allow patrons to look at pornographic Web sites.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14008.htm

35. US - Peacefire gets under skin of anti-porn filterers (AP)
Internet activist Bennett Haselton has made a name for himself by
helping minors disable filtering programs designed to block Web sites
that their parents deem offensive or pornographic.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14016.htm

36. EU - Aktionsplan gegen "illegale Web-Inhalte" (Heise)
Internet-Benutzer in der EU sollen besser gegen illegale Inhalte
geschützt werden. Für die Fortführung eines entsprechenden
Aktionsplans sprach sich der EU-Telekommunikationsrat am Dienstag in
Luxemburg aus. Gefördert wird unter anderem der Aufbau eines Netzes
von Meldestellen in Europa, eine freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der
Diensteanbieter und die Entwicklung von Filtersystemen gegen
schädliche Inhalte. Auf diese Weise sollen Kinderpornografie oder
rassistische Websites aus dem weltweiten Computernetz verschwinden.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14028.htm

37. Game Consoles - the Next Hacker Target? (SecurityFocus)
Xbox and Playstation 2 decks are coming to the Internet in droves
this fall. How will they stand up against the legions of hackers
waiting for them there?
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14003.htm

38. DE - Benimmregeln für Suchmaschinen-Optimierer und SMS-Werber
(Heise)
Der Deutsche Multimedia Verband (DMMV) hat angesichts der Flut von
Anmeldungs-Spam eine Empfehlung für korrektes Suchmaschinenmarketing
vorgelegt.  Die DMMV-Projektgruppe "Suchmaschinen", bestehend aus
Suchmaschinenbetreibern und -optimierern, hat nun diesen
Benmimmleitfaden vorgestellt. Unterstützt wird er auch von der
Bertelsmann Stiftung mit ihrem Projekt Transparenz im Netz.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14043.htm

39. DE - Die kontrollierte Selbstkontrolle (taz)
Per Staatsvertrag wollen die Bundesländer die Jugend vor
gefährlichen Inhalten im Internet schützen und die Selbstkontrolle
der Online-Unternehmen überwachen. Die sprechen von Zensur und wehren
sich gegen einen staatlich verordneten TÜV. siehe auch Verbände
kritisieren geplante Änderungen beim Jugendmedienschutz (Heise)
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14046.htm

40. EU - Commission launches public consultation on product and
service markets in electronic communications sector (RAPID)
The European Commission has launched a public consultation
concerning a Recommendation  on relevant product and service markets
in the electronic communications sector. The draft Recommendation
issued today identifies and defines the relevant product and service
markets that national regulators would be obliged to examine under
the new regulatory framework, in order to assess whether these
markets are effectively competitive, or conversely, whether
regulatory obligations should be applied to dominant market players
in order to safeguard the interests of competing players and of
consumers.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14044.htm

41. UK - Oftel allows BT rivals to offer single bill (FT)
Oftel, the telecoms regulator, cleared the way for rival telecoms
operators to BT Group to offer one telephone bill to customers.
Competitors to BT said the change was likely to spur renewed
competition in the UK telecoms market. see UK - Oftel unveils
measures to boost competition and protect consumers (Press Release)
and Protecting consumers by promoting competition: Oftel's
conclusions (OFTEL).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14004.htm

42. UK - Watchdog gives BT rivals another boost (Reuters)
Telecoms regulator Oftel has given a second boost to rivals of BT in
as many days by ruling that the country's dominant fixed-line
telecoms group must offer them high-speed access to its own network
at a fair price. see also Oftel boosts provision of broadband with
new interconnection services (Press release) and Direction to resolve
a dispute between BT, Energis and Thus concerning xDSL
interconnection at the ATM switch (OFTEL).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14005.htm

43. US - ISPs Organize Against FCC Deregulations (Internet.com)
A new coalition of approximately 300 national, regional and local
ISPs says it plans to oppose broadband deregulation proposals
currently before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13997.htm

44. Global - Watch this airspace (Economist)
Wireless telecoms: Four disruptive technologies are emerging that
promise to render not only the next wave of so-called 3G wireless
networks irrelevant, but possibly even their 4G successors
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14011.htm

45. DE - Transparenz im Netz: Suchmaschinen (Bertelsmann Stiftung)
Die Bertelsmann Stiftung entwickelt einen "Code of Conduct" für
Suchmaschinenbetreiber, welcher einen objektiven, transparenten
Zugang zu Informationen im Netz gewährleistet. Projektausschreibung
Vergabe von 3 Studien zum Verhalten von Internet- Nutzern und
Leistungsvergleich von Internet- Suchmaschinen Das Gesamtbudget der
Untersuchung beträgt100.000,- ¬ Bewerbungen mit ausführlichem
Untersuchungsdesign, Zeitplan, Budgetplan etc.werden erbeten bis zum
12. Juli 2002.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14042.htm

46. AU - ACCC Issues Broadband Services Figures (ACCC)
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued an update
to its Snapshot of Broadband Deployment, a report providing
statistics on broadband take-up across Australia.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14027.htm

47. EU - Online public services: Europe making progress on
eGovernment (RAPID)
The latest study from the European Commission on eGovernment in
Europe shows clear progress since the last measurement in October
2001, with the availability and interactivity of public services on
the Internet rising by 10 percentage points to 55%. The study -
carried out in April 2002 as part of the European Commission's
'Benchmarking eEurope' initiative - measures twenty basic public
services in the 15 EU Member States, plus Iceland, Norway and
Switzerland.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14035.htm

48. UK - Competitive Analysis of the Publishing Media Sector (DTI)
The DTI commissioned Pira International to undertake a major
Competitiveness Analysis of the UK publishing sector. The scope of
the project was wide ranging, encompassing books, national and
regional newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, business
information, directory and database publishing and Internet
publishing. The analysis is underpinned by substantial independent
research through questionnaires, focus groups and workshop sessions
and was co-managed by the DTI and UK Publishing Media. Stephen Timms,
Minister for e-commerce and competitiveness, officially launched the
findings on 13 June 2002.  The full report, Executive Summary and
each separate chapter is available to download.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14040.htm

49. UK - Public resistance to digital TV grows (BBC)
The government's plan for turning off the analogue TV signal has
been thrown into doubt after research suggested almost one in three
people would never switch to digital TV. Consumer confidence in
upgraded television sets appears to have been dented by the collapse
of ITV Digital. The survey of attitudes towards digital TV, carried
out by WPP's media buyer, Mediaedge:CIA, found 29% of respondents
said they would "never" switch from analogue.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14021.htm

50. 2002-07-04 FR, Paris - Premiers états généraux du nommage
Internet (legalis.net)
L'Icann, le gouvernement des Etats-Unis, la Présidence de l'Union
Européenne, l'Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle et
les principaux acteurs majeurs du nommage en Europe seront présents
pour les premiers états généraux européens du nommage Internet.
Parmi les thèmes abordés : la réforme de l'Icann, la position du
gouvernement américain, l'avenir des noms de domaine avec notamment
la question du multilinguisme, le point sur le cybersquatting,
nommage et liberté d'expression, le point eu est-il un enjeu de
souveraineté pour l'Europe, la création de systèmes alternatifs de
nommage&  Cette manifestation est organisée par l'Internet Society
France, la coordination européenne des chapitres de l'Internet
Society, le CIGREF, le MEDEF et l'association des Ingénieurs Arts et
Métiers, avec le soutien de l'Agence pour la Protection des
Programmes.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14000.htm

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