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Computers and Law Journal

The Computers and Law Journal is published quarterly by the Australian and New Zealand Societies for Computers and the Law. The Journal's intended readership includes legal practitioners, academics and computer and telecommunications company executives. Computers and Law Journal has feature articles, case notes and book reviews covering legal issues relating to information technology, the Internet, computer software, telecommunications and intellectual property. Journal articles older than a year can be viewed in full on the AustLII site.

Spam Laws

The Spam Laws website was originally compiled by David Sorkin who is Associate Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Illinois, USA. The site focuses on laws in the United States, Europe and other countries relating to unsolicited commercial email (spam). The US legal materials include proposed and enacted federal and state laws along with selected cases. Europe and other countries are listed by country with links to a variety of legal materials including legislation, reports, websites, EU directives, position papers and surveys.

About Cookies

About Cookies is a free website, produced by international law firm Pinsent Masons, which provides information on the law relating to cookies (small text files that websites can place on an internet user's hard drive). Practical guidance on controlling and deleting cookies is given on the site with instructions relating to the most popular browsers. There is also guidance to the law on cookies with links to the full text of relevant legislation and a selection of FAQs which include information on the history and purpose of cookies.

UDRP Reference Library

Annotated resource guide to ICANN's (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) produced by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and made freely available on their website .The UDRP relates to domain name disputes and the site provides links to background information including the text and rules of the policy and other legal materials available online.There are links to online articles, domain name and Internet news stories and organisations.

Hertfordshire Law Journal

The Hertfordshire Law Journal (HLJ) is published twice yearly by the University of Hertfordshire's Centre for International Law and is made available on their website for free. The HLJ was launched in 2002 and focuses on international commercial law and policy. It is aimed at academics, practitioners and those in the business community.

beSpacific

Website of beSpacific, a law and technology weblog written by Sabrina I. Pacifici, a law librarian and co-founder of the legal web journal LLRX.com. The site is intended for legal professionals, librarians and researchers and focuses on United States news, providing a digest of legal stories covering "e-government, copyright, privacy, government documents, cybercrime and ID theft, the Patriot Act, and freedom of information." Each story has one or more subject headings and clicking these provides access to other stories within the same subject area eg.

Weblaw

Weblaw is the website of the IT and E-commerce Law Group of London based commercial law firm, Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP. The website has details of the range of services offered by the firm and partner profiles. The company's news and press releases are included, and there is a selection of freely available in-house articles covering IT, Internet and e-commerce issues. The website is available in English, French, German and Italian.

ADLAW By Request

Website of ADLAW By Request, Reed Smith's free online advertising and marketing law E-magazine. The site features news, press releases, and feature articles in several sections including In the Courts and International. It also includes links to other Reed Smith newsletters such as Legal Bytes, a monthly publication. You will need to register to access the newsletter in PDF format, but this is free. An archive of Adlaw by Request is also available.

World Intellectual Property Organization: Database of WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions

A free database of internet domain name dispute cases, provided by the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva. The Center offers alternative dispute resolution services in international commercial disputes between private parties. All the domain name cases back to 1999 are available in the database, searchable by domain name, key word, party names or case number. The full text of the decisions is available. The site also provides indexes of decisions by domain name category and by legal point, together with lists of the most-cited cases.

BitLaw

A freely available online resource guide created by Daniel Tysver of the Minnesota-based law firm Beck & Tysver, which provides information on intellectual property and technology law. The site is divided into subject areas such as patent law, software patents, trademark law, copyright law and internet law. Each section has an executive summary followed by links to more in-depth coverage of the topic and specific pieces of legislation.

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