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The Net Is 30-Something, But
the Web Is a Child
In
what has become something of an annual rite, the
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
recently sent out a notice for entries for this year's
Webby Awards, to be celebrated Oscar-style next spring
in San Francisco.
Yet something more than a typographical error jumped out
to those with more than a passing acquaintance with Net
history.
Yet something more than a typographical error jumped out
to those with more than a passing acquaintance with Net
history.
"As the Internet moves into its second decade, the
academy remains committed to celebrating the Web sites
and individuals that are setting standards and pushing
boundaries," said the notice to the news media in a mass
e-mailing last month.
The Internet's second decade? By whose calendar?
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Who Rules Cyberspace?
Yahoo!" and
"Holocaust" are two normally unrelated words that have
been frequently associated in recent times because of
some cutting-edge Internet litigation. Two French
organizations — The League Against Racism and
Anti-Semitism and the Union of Jewish Students —
obtained an interim French court order last year
prohibiting Yahoo! Inc. and its French subsidiary
from permitting the auction of Nazi memorabilia on the
Yahoo! auction site. Yahoo! responded by obtaining an
order recently from a U.S. federal court prohibiting the
French organizations from enforcing the French order in
the U.S.
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 Brazil
court overturns AOL injunction against Brasil Online
SAO
PAULO, Brazil (November 14, 2001 5:49 p.m. EST) - A
Sao Paulo court on Wednesday overturned an
injunction brought by America Online Latin America
Inc. to force rival Brasil Online to pull a series
of ads that the U.S. company said were misleading,
anti-American and insulting to its clients.
The original court injunction ruled last week that
Brasil Online - the budget arm of Brazil's top
Internet Service Provider Universo Online Inc., or
UOL - should pull a television, press and billboard
campaign and pay AOLA a symbolic $4,000 in damages.
But Judge Pedro Paulo Preuss overturned the
injunction Wednesday, after BOL appealed.
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Commission outlines plans to tackle cybercrime
The EU's Information Society
Commissioner, Errki Liikanen, has said that action is
crucial to prevent cybercrime hijacking the success of
information and communication (ICT) technologies in Europe.
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