Volume IV

Issue : 2: January 26, 2006

• Importation Held to Infringe Copyright Despite the Absence of Initial Infringement
• Nevada Court Rules Google Cache Feature Constitutes "Fair Use"
• Google Resists U.S. Government Motion to Compel Disclosure of Search Information
• Yahoo Loses Nazi Memorabilia Free Speech Case
• Ontario Court Finds Collaboration Necessary to Facilitate Document Production in the Electronic Age
• U.K. Plans to Host Global Online Gambling Summit
• Korea Will Not Prosecute Personal Downloaders
• Australian Online Bookie First to Get Licence
• Utah Fines B.C. Based Pornography Website
• California Court of Appeal Upholds Microsoft Class Action Settlement
• Alberta Court of Appeal Asserts that Corporations Cannot Hide Behind Privacy Laws
• U.S. Patent Office Upholds Microsofts File System Patents
• Sony Obtains $6 Million in Statutory Damages for Mod Chip Sales

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Utah Fines B.C. Based Pornography Website

The Utah Division of Consumer Protection has issued the first citation under its recently enacted Child Protection Registry statute. The $2,500 citation was issued to a pornography website based in British Columbia.

The website, which lists only a post office address in Gibsons, B.C., allegedly sent a sexually explicit message to an email address registered as accessible to a minor. This contravened Utah’s Child Protection Registry statute which requires adult-oriented websites and mass emailers to screen out registered addresses from their distribution lists.

Mass emailers are able to “scrub” their distribution lists by linking to Utah-based Unspam Technologies which maintains the registry and charges a half-cent for each registered address that it removes from a distribution list. The U.S. Free Speech Coalition contends that the regime violates the right to free expression because of the burden it places on mass emailers.

For additional information, visit:

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3398336