Antitrust

• Antitrust Laws not Violated by Patent/Copyright Owner's Refusal to License

• Divestiture and Compulsory Licensing: Remedies or Bad Medicine?

Banking

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- Overview

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- Financial Privacy Provisions

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- Holding Company Regulation

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- Insurance Provisions

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- Securities Law Impacts

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- A Perspective

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- Banks and Bank Subsidiaries

Certification

• Certification Services

• Closed User Groups

• Legal Issues in Certification

Constitutional Law

• Constitutional Bill of Attainder Clause Protects Corporations Against Legislative Punishment

Copyright & Trademark

• Expansion of EU and Community Trade Mark Protection: Apply Before May 1, 2004 and Avoid Grounds for Rejection

• Information Law Updates: Lanham Act Decisions and New Database Legislation

• Ninth Circuit Finds that the Use of Trademarked Terms to Trigger Unlabeled Internet Banner Advertising May Violate the Lanham Act

• California Supreme Court Resolves Apparent Conflict Between Trade Secret Law And Free Speech Rights

• The Enforceability of "Clickwrap" Licenses

• The Emperor's Magic Suit: Proposed Legislation Will Tailor the Copyright Law to Fit the Internet

• Image Search Engine Does Not Infringe Copyrights

• RealNetworks Wins Preliminary Injunction Under Digital Millennium Copyright Act

• Supreme Court Rules for Freelance Writers

• Webcasting and Radio Stations

• Website Owner Ordered to Remove Linking Information

• What's the Record Worth? Judge Must Push Realistic Price for "Tasini" Damages

Corporate Information

• Costs and Benefits of Broadly Disseminating Corporate Information: An Overview

• Enforceability of Online Contracts: State and Federal Law Developments

• Online Contracts in the Courts and Internet Jurisdiction

Data Protection

• Section by Section Analysis of the "Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003" (the FACT Act)

• The UK's Data Protection Act 1998

• UK's Data Protection Act 1998

• The EU's Data Protection Directive

• EU and UK Regulation of Transborder Data Flows

• Information Security: An Overview Of Legal Considerations On Securing Data In Cyberspace

• Sidley Comments Filed with the EU Regarding Binding Corporate Rules

• EU Data Protection: Possible New Rules for Multinationals

• Congress Questions EU Data Protection Directive and Safe Harbor Deal

• Liability for Computer Glitches and Online Security Lapses

• Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security: A Preliminary Work Plan for an International Compliance Program

• Regulation of Transborder Data Flows From The European Economic Area

• The Third Way: "Direct Compliance" -- A New Strategy for Complying with the EU Data Protection Directive

Domain Names

• Second Circuit Limits the Use of WHOIS Data to Solicit a Competitor's Customers

• Trademark Owners' Rights in Domain Names Reaffirmed

• Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Update: Second Circuit Issues First Appellate Ruling

• Constitutionality of ACPA's In Rem Jurisdictional Provisions: Combating Cybersquatters from China to Virginia

• Domain Names: Protecting Your Future Business Address

• Internet Domain Names

• Is Proving "Bad Faith" In WIPO Domain Name Cases Getting Harder?: America Online, Inc. v. Vadim Eremeev, (WIPO February 15, 2001)

• Registering New "Dot US" Top Level Domain Names

• Singapore's First "SDRP" Decision Does Not Bode Well for Trademark Owners

• The Second Circuit Holds That ACPA "Registrar Certificates" Do Not Create In Rem Jurisdiction

E-Commerce

• FCC Stays Broad Expansion of Rules on Unsolicited Faxes

• EU Regulation of E-Commerce Under the E-Commerce Directive

• UK Regulation of Online Financial Promotion

• New EU Legal Requirements in Online Marketing

• FCC Stays Broad Expansion of Rules on Unsolicited Faxes

• Analysis of New Federal E-Signature Law

• "Business Process" Patent -- Amazon.com Wins Preliminary Injunction

• Defining Electronic Commerce

• E-Commerce: Pennsylvania Enacts Uniform Electronic Transactions Act But Adds Special Consumer Protections

• E-Commerce and Old-Fashioned Contracts

• E-Commerce Business Strategies, Legal Issues and Regulatory Developments (PowerPoint presentation)

• Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act Known as the "Federal UETA"

• Fighting Fraud in Cyberspace:  Protecting Online Consumers and Investors (Summary of the Seminar held at the Harvard Club, New York City on June 2, 1999)

• Financial Regulation: UK and EU E-Commerce Regulatory Developments

• House and Senate Pass Conference Report on Electronic Signature Legislation

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Summer/Fall 2000)

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Winter/Spring 2001)

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Summer 2001)

• The Internet, Federal Preemption and the "Dormant Commerce Clause"

• Legal and Regulatory Environment in the UK (a chapter from the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation's book, "The New World Of European E-Finance")

• Napster Loses, But Free Music May Win

• Online Advertising

• Payments on the Internet (PowerPoint presentation)

• ReverseAuction.com Reaps a Bitter Harvest

• Selling Products and Services Over the Internet

• Digital Contracting: Doing Business Online successfully

• Direct Marketing Regulations for the UK

• Jurisdiction on the Internet: Knowing Where to Trade

Economic Espionage

• Worried About Economic Espionage? Walk Softly and Carry A Big Stick

E-Mail

• FTC, FCC Seek Public Comment on CAN-SPAM

• Appellate Court Holds the ECPA Does Not Prohibit Employer Search of E-mail Stored on Workplace E-mail System

• President Signs CAN-SPAM Act of 2003

• California Anti-Spam Law Is Toughest In the Nation, But May be Superseded by Impending Federal Legislation

• Free Expression and the Right to Spam: Intel Corp. v. Hamidi

• Corporate E-Mail and Internet Usage--Recent Developments

• E-Mail Deletions: Good Practice or Evidential Suicide?

• E-Mail Policy Protocols

• Misuse of E-Mail, Part 1

Encryption

• Encryption and the Internet: Bernstein v. Department of State

• Basic Encryption and Cryptography

• PKI Hierarchies

EU

• Expansion of EU and Community Trade Mark Protection: Apply Before May 1, 2004 and Avoid Grounds for Rejection

• EU Privacy: European Court of Justice Hands Down Landmark Decision on EU Data Protection Directive

• Sidley Comments Filed with the EU Regarding Binding Corporate Rules for Data Protection

• EU and UK Regulation of Privacy Policies

• EU Regulation of E-Commerce Under the E-Commerce Directive

• EU Regulation of Distance Marketing of Financial Services

• EU Regulation of Distance Selling

• EU Regulation of Transborder Data Flows

• EU Regulation of Jurisdiction and Cross Border Liability

• EU and UK Regulation of Linking, Framing and Metatags

• Legal Requirements in Online Marketing

• New EU Legal Requirements in Online Marketing

• EU Database Rights - A Valuable Source of Revenue?

• EU's Data Protection Directive

• Article 29 Data Transfers

• EU Regulation of Distance Selling

• EU Data Protection: "Binding Corporate Rules" as an Alternative to the "Safe Harbor" for Multinationals that Transfer Data to the U.S.

• EU Regulation of Distance Marketing of Financial Services

• EU Regulation of E-Commerce Under the E-Commerce Directive

• Congress Questions EU Data Protection Directive and Safe Harbor Deal

• European Union Database Developments: An Update on the Status of Intellectual Property Protections for Factual Compilations

• Financial Regulation: UK and EU E-Commerce Regulatory Developments

• The Third Way: "Direct Compliance" -- A New Strategy for Complying with the EU Data Protection Directive

Evidence

• Computer Searches and Seizures

Financial Services

• Insurance on the Internet

• How to Build and Monitor E-Commerce Insurance

• Legal Challenges to Selling Insurance on the Internet

• Electronic Disclosures Under Regulations B, E, M, Z and DD

Health and Medical

• Privacy: the Administration's New Proposal for Electronic Medical Records

Intellectual Property

• Free Expression and the Right of Publicity: ETW Corp. v. Jireh Publishing, Inc.

• California Supreme Court Resolves Apparent Conflict Between Trade Secret Law and Free Speech Rights

• Trademark Owners’ Rights in Domain Names Reaffirmed: Chicago District Court Clarifies Reach of Controversial Seventh Circuit Decision

• Business Method Patents

• Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Prosecution Gears Up; Attorney General Ashcroft Announces New Department of Justice Resources

• E-Commerce Patents

• Effective Preparation of Patent Related Exculpatory Legal Opinions

• European Union Database Developments: An Update on the Status of Intellectual Property Protections for Factual Compilations

• Free Expression and the Right of Publicity: ETW Corp. v. Jireh Publishing, Inc.

• Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Audits

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Summer/Fall 2000)

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Winter/Spring 2001)

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Summer 2001)

• Intellectual Property & Electronic Commerce Newsletter (Winter 2002)

• Intellectual Property Due Diligence

• Intellectual Property on the Internet: Protecting Your Website

• It's No Secret: Supreme Court to Decide Whether Trademark Dilution Requires Proof of Actual Injury

• The New United States Patent Law - A Primer

• An Overview of the New Patent Legislation (PowerPoint presentation)

• Patent Litigation After Vornado

• Patentability of Computer Software and Business Models

• Protecting Factual Data

• Protecting Trade Secrets

• Recent Developments in Trademark Law

• Selection and Use of Experts in Patent Cases

• Treatment of WIPO Decisions in U.S. Federal Court

• What's the Record Worth? Judge Must Push Realistic Price for "Tasini" Damages

Internet Law & Legislation

• Online License Agreements: Court Rejects Arbitration Provision

• Internet and the First Amendment: United States v. American Library Association, Inc.

• 106^th Congress CyberLaw Legislation: The First Session Reviewed

• Advertising on the Internet

• California Signs Off on Cybercontracts: Legislature Is First to Adopt Uniform Electronic Transactions Act

• Child Online Protection Act Clears Hurdle in Supreme Court, But Many Questions Remain

• Congress Questions EU Data Protection Directive and Safe Harbor Deal

• Copyrighted Webcast Programming on the Internet: U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Hearing (June 15, 2000)

• Court Upholds Constitutionality of California "Anti-Spam" Law

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

• Enacted Legislation Affecting the Internet

• Fighting Cybersquatters: Methods for Domain Name Dispute Resolution

• High-Tech Legislative Initiatives in the 107^th Congress

• The Internet and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

• The Internet, Federal Preemption and the "Dormant Commerce Clause"

• Internet Legislation in the 106th Congress

• Ninth Circuit Addresses Image Hyperlinking

• Old and New Weapons to Combat Cybersquatters and Other Cyberopportunists

• Pending Legislation Affecting the Internet

• Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Internet Privacy Legislation

• Unguided Missives: The FDA and Prescription Drug Promotion in Cyberspace

• Webcasting and Radio Stations

Policy

• Antitrust Newsletter: the Antitrust Implications of the "B2B" Revolution

• Antitrust Alert: FTC Will Scrutinize B2B Exchanges for Possible Antitrust Violations

• E-Commerce Alert: Taxing Goods on the Internet

• How to Use DSHEA's "Third-Party Literature" Exemption on the Internet:  Retail and Detail on the Web

• Legislative Hearing - Spamming: The E-Mail You Want to Can; Subcommittee on Telecommunications Trade & Consumer Protection, November 3, 1999; Prepared Statement of Mr. Alan Charles Raul, Sidley & Austin.

• U.S. Perspectives on Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace

• White House Announces Plans for Stimulating Electronic Commerce

• White House Watch: White House Creates Working Group on All Things Unlawful on the Internet

Privacy

• FTC Continues to Hold Companies Accountable for Their Privacy Promises

• Federal Court Holds that Unintentional Collection of Electronically Transmitted Personal Data Does Not Violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

• Privacy and Data Protection Alert, November 13, 2003

• EU and UK Regulation of Privacy Policies

• Information Security: New York State Enforcement Action Regarding Unauthorized Access to the Personal Information of Victoria's Secret Customers

• California Enacts New Privacy Legislation

• Information Security: California's Office of Privacy Protection Issues

• Internet and the First Amendment: United States v. American Library Association Inc.

• Minnesota Privacy Bill Imposes New State Regulation On Internet Privacy But May Leave ISPs Floundering

• Appellate Decision Rejects Privacy Claims: AT&T v. Conboy

• Canada's Tough Enforcement of Its Privacy Regime May Affect United States Privacy Practices

• Common Mistakes in Internet Contracts and Privacy Law Issues

• Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners Worldwide (Updated)

• The European Union Data Protection Directive May Disrupt Human Resources Data Transfers - Even for Non-Internet Businesses

• FTC-Toysmart "Privacy" Litigation

• How Do Businesses Use Customer Information: Is the Customer's Privacy Protected?

• Internet Privacy in the Courts

• Managing Your Privacy Policy

• New Children's Online Privacy Rules

• The New Rules on Transferring Personal Data Outside the EEA (Updated!)

• Personal Privacy: No Defamation If No One Knows Your Name

• Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security: A Preliminary Work Plan for an International Compliance Program

• Privacy: the Administration's New Proposal for Electronic Medical Records

• Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy

• "Privacy Due Diligence": Eli Lilly FTC Consent Order Is A Good Road Map for Corporate Data Protection

• Privacy for Personal Data: Who Will Set the Standard?

• Privacy Law and Policy

• Privacy on the Internet: Senate Hearing (June 13, 2000)

• Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Internet Privacy Legislation

• Update to The "USA Patriot Act of 2001": Electronic Surveillance and Privacy for Section V.

• "USA Patriot Act": Electronic Surveillance and Privacy (PowerPoint presentation)

• The "USA Patriot Act of 2001": Electronic Surveillance and Privacy

• Who Owns the Data? Evolving Protections for Facts, Secrets, and Personal Information in Cyberspace

• Workplace Privacy: Fifth Circuit Finds Employee Has Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Office Computer in Absence of Announced Monitoring Policy

Security

• Information and Computer Security

• Federal Guidelines for Responding to Cyberattacks

• Internet Attacks on the Rise: the Increasing Problem and Potential Liability, and Some Preventative Suggestions

• Liability for Computer Glitches and Online Security Lapses

Taxation

• IRS Internet Barter Exchange Exception

• North Carolina Adopts National Governors' Association's Approach To Simplifying Sales Tax Collection For Internet, Local, And Catalog-Based Sellers

Year 2000

• The Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act

• Year 2000 Readiness and Responsibility Act