Manatt--dedicated to direct response for decades.
Electronic retailing is a complex business, merging the dynamics of the advertising, retailing and entertainment industries. Electronic retailing involves the utilization of all media channels including television, radio, the Internet, print and the telephone. While electronic retailing draws on aspects of other forms of marketing and entertainment, it is...

The government at the standards bazaar.
In recent years, there has been heightened interest in having government intervene in what has become primarily a market activity to mandate information technology standards. This article will provide an analytical framework by which government can consider such actions. I premise my proposal on the conclusion that government should...

The promise of Internet intermediary liability.
INTRODUCTION I. THE INTERNET AND MISCONDUCT A. The End-to-End Structure of the Internet B. Internet Actors 1. Primary Malfeasors 2. Internet Intermediaries a. ISPs b. Payment Intermediaries c. Auction Intermediaries C. Existing (Fault-Based) Liability Schemes II. LIABILITY WITHOUT FAULT: INTERNET INTERMEDIARIES AS GATEKEEPERS A. The Basic Premise 1. The...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...

Western heterosexual masculinity, anxiety, and Web porn.
The notion of a crisis in heterosexual masculine identity has become something of a commonplace in the literature on men in contemporary society (see Walzer, 2002). This view, however, seems to imply that there was a time in which heterosexual masculine identity was not somehow "at risk"; that is,...

B(l)ogged down.
Byline: Deepshikha Mehta Should electronic journals be shackled by the chains of censorship? You met a Bollywood superstar but couldn't scream from rooftops to let the world know? Well then, blogging just might be your ticket. Go ahead and create a personal web...

From Barry's boys to the Deaniacs: how alternative media have transformed politics on the left and the right.
America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power, by Richard Viguerie and David Franke, Chicago: Bonus Books, 375 pages, $26.95 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything, by Joe Trippi, New York: Regan Books, 252...

The future of Internet governance.
The panel was convened at 2:45 p.m., on Thursday, March 29, by its moderator, Tim Wu of Columbia University School of Law, who introduced the panelists: Esther Dyson of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami School of Law; David...

Mouvance altermondialisation et identite collective des organisations: les tribulations d'une association de commerce equitable (1).
RÉSUMÉ L'émergence de l'altermondialisme et les transformations de la scène militante aux niveaux international et national a eu des conséquences importantes pour plusieurs mouvements sociaux. La création de nouveaux lieux de légitimation des discours et des pratiques permettent aux organisations et aux mouvements de s'inscrire au sein...

From bricks to pajamas: the law and economics of amateur journalism.
ABSTRACT Weblogs have proliferated rapidly in recent years, attracting significant attention and generating important legal issues. Yet so far no coherent economic framework for addressing these issues exists. This Article begins to develop such a framework. It views blogs as the vanguard of what might be called...