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Cyber War Pages

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Subject

Case/Controversy

 Issue
Confidentiality
Copyrights  

Los Angeles Times vs. Free Republic

 The Los Angeles Times objects to Free Republic and others using its copyrighted news stories on their websites, by direct copying stories or by using frames.

Encryption

First Amendment and Encryption
http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/
ITAR_export/HTML/hot.html

RSA vs. Pretty Good Privacy

RSA sues PGP:
Red Herring Online - RSA and PGP go to court over crypto - 9/8/97

Pleadings:
http://www.jya.com/rsavpgp-files.htm

RSA forced to arbitrate:
http://www.pgp.com/newsroom/prel41.cgi

E-mail standards and the RSA/PGP war.
http://www.idg.co.nz/nzweb/7022.html

RSA lacks patent protection in Europe.
http://www.keyserver.de/de/Library/
artikel/Poehlmann1.asp

 

 RSA sues PGP over encryption technology in a licensing dispute.

First Amendment - Freedom of Speech

 

 Electronic Freedom Foundation
http://www.eff.org/
http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/
HTML/hot.html

Intellectual Property - General

 Electronic Freedom Foundation Archives
http://www.eff.org/pub/
Intellectual_property/
Licenses Sun vs. Microsoft

The Java Contract

Sun's Lawsuit Information Index

Microsoft's Java Lawsuit Document Index

 

 Sun sues Microsoft over  Java modifications  and claims that Internet Exporer 4.0 uses standard Java. 
Monopoly U.S. vs. Microsoft


US Dept. of Justice information on Microsoft suit

Microsoft information on Department of Justice suit:

 

 The U. S. Dept. of Justice  sued to stop Microsoft from requiring pc makers to install Internet Explorer 4.0 as part of the Windows operating system.

Trademarks
     Meta tags

 Playboy vs. Calvin Designer Label

Preliminary injunction against Calvin Designer
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/
cases/calvin1.html

 Playboy Enterprises sued Calvin Designer Label, claiming the trademarked names, "playboy" and "playmate" were being used as hidden meta tags on xxx webpages to cause internet search engines to bring up Calvin's xxx sites when a search was made for Playboy or Playmate.
Trade Secrets 
DEC vs. Intel DEC sued Intel, claiming that Intel used Alpha Code in the Pentium Pro.

 

 

 Symantec vs. Macafee 
Symantec's litigation site
http://www.symantec.com/
sabu/vsmc/index.html

Symantec's Amended Complaint
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/vsmc/
complaints/originalcompl.html

Court order to preserve evidence
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/
vsmc/orders/non-destruct.html

Preliminary Injunction against Macafee
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/
vsmc/orders/prelimjunct.html

Second Amended Complaint for copyright infringement and unfair competition
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/
vsmc/complaints/2ndamended.html

 

 

  

Symantec sued Macafee, claiming that a former Symantec employee took copyrighted and trade secret code with him when he took a job at Macafee, and that the code was used in Macafee's anti-virus product.