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Message In A Bottleneck: The Need For Fcc-Mandated Interoperability Among Instant Messaging Providers, Matthew A. Goldberg
Message In A Bottleneck: The Need For Fcc-Mandated Interoperability Among Instant Messaging Providers, Matthew A. Goldberg
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
In August 2003, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reversed a ruling it had made in 2001 regarding regulation of America Online's (AOL) instant messaging program. Instant messaging (IM) is one of the Internet's most popular technologies, used recreationally and to facilitate business transactions. It is a major worldwide communications tool with the potential to serve as a catalyst for a new generation of Internet applications based on real-time computing. In contrast to Internet technologies like e-mail and access to the World Wide Web through browser programs like Microsoft Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox, the technical underpinnings of these IM systems are …
The Development Of Arbitration In The Resolution Of Internet Domain Name Disputes, Christopher S. Lee
The Development Of Arbitration In The Resolution Of Internet Domain Name Disputes, Christopher S. Lee
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
Web surfers who use the AltaVista Internet search engine may not realize that in 1998, Compaq Computer Corporation paid $3.3 million for the rights to the domain name AltaVista.com. A year later, eCompanies paid $7.5 million for the domain name business.com. And in February of 2000, Bank of America paid $3 million for the domain name loans.com. These transactions demonstrate that the ownership, transfer, and control of Internet domain names is a multi-million dollar industry.
Information Vs. Commercialization: The Internet And Unsolicited Electronic Mail, Karin Mika
Information Vs. Commercialization: The Internet And Unsolicited Electronic Mail, Karin Mika
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
In November of 1996, the District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania allowed America Online to prohibit a business from using the Internet for sending bulk, unsolicited electronic mail.[1] The decision highlighted some intriguing issues related to how the Internet interacts with the current legal framework and how legal standards that have adequately encompassed most business uses for emerging technologies are not a perfect fit for issues related to the Internet. This article will focus on the current struggle to fit the Internet into some type of existing legal framework, especially with respect to Internet business uses. It will focus primarily on …