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Winter Working Meeting in Santa Clara, California, January 2009

I-WIN (ITech Law - Women's International Network) Networking Meeting in NYC

Committee member Francoise Gilbert passes on a note about an event I thought many of our members would have an interest in:If you are attending the Annual Meeting of the ABA, or if you will be in New York on August 8, 2008, please read on.I-WIN ( ITech Law - Women's International Network) is part...

New Opportunity to Develop Model Contract

Attendees at the Annual Meeting will have an opportunity to hear about an exciting new opportunity for our Committee that is just getting underway -- A model contract drafting project with potential to be as important to eCommerce as was our seminal work on EDI back in the early 1990's, as well as...

Cyberspace Committee Highlights at 2008 ABA Annual Meeting

We look forward to seeing many of you at the ABA Annual Meeting in New York in a couple of weeks. Cyberspace Committee meetings begin Friday, August 8 in the afternoon and continue through the morning on Monday, August 11.The Cyberspace meeting and program schedule is posted here in PDF format for...

US Dept of State will meet to discuss UNCITRAL IP Guide

UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) is doing some work on intellectual property issues as they relate to secured transactions -- the current work product is its Draft Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions and its treatment of security rights in intellectual...

Ticket Snatchers -- Beware of Minnesota!

So, I'm fully aware of the political appeal of this new statute my home state has passed (after all, it was being sold to the public as the Hannah Montana bill after the spectacle of parents having to drop four-figure prices in order to get their little cherubs in to see their favorite TV star on...

Breath Machine Source Code Lawsuit in Minnesota

I blogged a few months back about the running controversy about breath testing machines used by police in drinking/driving cases.The state of Minnesota has recently filed suit against the manufacturer of its breath testing machines. Apart from the obvious issues over whether a criminal defendant...

Don Cohn at Work

Long-time member Don Cohn develops ideas for the update of the book on Employee Use of the Internet 

The Computer Made Me Do It

Not entirely on point to the committee, but I couldn't help but share the story from our local paper about the guy who got ticketed for making a left turn notwithstanding an extremely well-marked 'No Left Turn' sign (and barriers, etc.). (Scroll down a bit for the story.) His excuse? Mapquest...

Domaining Featured in the Gray Lady

From the NYT...Mr. Buck and other domainers profit when inexperienced Internet users type those names into their Web browsers, and once on the site click on related advertisements. In the longer term, they hope to resell their domain names for large profits to companies that want to build real...