Articles

Jonathan Band/Charles Kennedy
The USA-Patriot Act
A concise analysis of the legislative reaction in the US to September 11th 2001

Alain Strowel
Exhaustion: New Interpretation for Software Distribution?
A European notion of consent could determine the exhaustion of a copyright holder's distribution right

Case Law

Implied Consent to Reimportation of Trade Mark Products by Third Parties
Zino Davidoff et al. v. A&G Imports Ltd.
Levi Strauss & Co. et al. v. Tesco Stores Ltd. et al.
Levi Strauss & Co. et al. v. Costco Wholesale UK Ltd.
European Court of Justice
Judgment delivered on November 20th 2001

Enforceability of Foreign Court Decisions
Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme Et L'Antisemitisme et al.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District California
Declaratory judgment issued on November 7th 2001 with remarks by Wittow

Forum for Online Defamation Cases
Joseph Gutnick v. Dow Jones & Co. Inc.
Supreme Court of Victoria
Opinion delivered on August 28th 2001

Updates

Christopher Gibson
WIPO Internet Copyright Treaties Coming Into Force

Lucie Guibault
Canada: Copyright Reform and Anti-Terrorism Legislation

Ian Lloyd
UK: Terror and Data Protection

Rosa Julia Barceló
Spain: New Trademark Law

Tarlach McGonagle
Ireland: Future Internet Developments

Ken Moon
New Zealand: First Internet Defamation Case