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the use of Internet and to the cyber-security: cyber-crime, Internet regulations, security and law,
privacy protection, information technology llaws, intellectual property, open source software. The resources gathered will help clarify some practical and
regulatory issues related to the various use of Internet, as well as the risks generated by various
abuses.
About Internet, the Web and the law there are many areas of
interest in the legal arena. More precisely, our common sense invites us, as a person, a business,
a web site owner or a web developer, to discover the limits of our freedom, our rights and
obligations toward third parties or how to protect our person, our business properties or our works
from what is commonly said to be the "cyber crime". In some situations we may want to find a lawyer
but most of the time we are simply in need of a more relevant information in our day to day work.
This is the reason why we have set up this portal and commented the resources pointed to. The below
resources are about the said Internet Law, Security and the Internet, our privacy, IT law,
Intellectual Property, finding a lawyer, the Open source issues and more. We wish that our
resources may be helpful for our visitors. - Cyber crime
- Internet laws
- Security and Internet
- Privacy
- Information technology regulatory issues
- In-house legal databases
- Find a lawyer
- Intellectual property
- Issues related to open source
- Legal aspect of spam
- Cryptographie - cryptologie regulation [France, EU]
When a resource that we had
initially commented is no longer available we keep the information for a while in order to control
the situation before to remove it. Recently removed resources remain at the end of this
page. 
Cyber-crime? Undoubtedly it appears natural to use the word cyber-crime
to target the sending of virus and other attacks whose Internet actors are victims today. But does
the concept of cyber-criminality indicate only acts being able to be qualified "criminals"? Not so sure. A quick glance at the legal landscape of the
Internet would rather make us think the opposite. The systematic criminalization of all one each
one seems a heavy tendency, which threatens all the actors of the Web. We must be very careful to
the legal qualification of the situations, and as well for our own use of Internet, be it personal
or professional. Internet law Droit-Net is a Forum, centred on the legal issues related to
the use of Internet, the responsibilities of the various actors, the legal qualifications of the
various use of the network, the conflicts on domain names, etc. Use is submitted to
registration.
http://listes.cru.fr/wws/info/droit-net, French. Droit du Net, intended for common users, is published by the
"Forum des droits sur l'Internet", created in 2003 with the support of the Government and partners
[Wanadoo, Microsoft, IAP Association]. The search engine enables searching on issues related to the
use of Internet, in France [creating a link to a Web site, spam, etc.]. http://www.droitdunet.fr/, French & English.
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Juriscom.net, created in 1997 by Lionel Thoumyre, offers
news, decisions, articles, in particular about the responsibility of the intermediaries and ISP:
"Hyperdossier on the liability of the actors of the Internet in France http://www.juriscom.net/pro/visu.php?ID=485, French. Juriscom.net, see also by Pierre-Emmanuel MOYSE, Lawyer,
Léger-Robic-Richard, Montréal : "La force obligatoire des sentences arbitrales
rendues en matière de noms de domaine"(The mandatory power of the arbitral decisions in the
matter of domain names) [October 2000]
http://www.juriscom.net/pro/2/ndm20001010.htm, French. - The portal democratie-electronique, created by Helena Kasparova,
includes a section about Law and another one about the Internet challenge, French.
- Law http://www.democratie-electronique.org/droit/menu.htm
- Challenge http://www.democratie-electronique.org/internet_enj/menu.htm
- Legicité is a directory of legal Web sites, created by NC
Concept and targeting the French law, with lawyers and information Web sites.
- http://www.legicite.com/sites_juridiques/droit_information_1.htm
Epsidoc is an education Web site which offers a link page
about "citizenship, law and Internet" http://www.epsidoc.net/eprofs/secunet.htm, French. The Web site Internet Law mainly targets the Internet
commerce, the privacy, the freedom of speech, the intellectual property http://internetlaw.pf.com/, English. The 1997 seminar "Law and the Internet" organized by the
University of Miamy includes some useful resources http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/sem97/, English.
Want to learn even more? - Cyber-crime, Internet regulations, security and law, privacy protection, information technology
llaws, intellectual property, open source software and more Try a search in the box
opposite.
Security and Internet - ILPF, Internet Law and Policy forum [Washington], which members are
mainly global corporations and organizations, some of which are directly concerned by security
issues, offers working group, conferences and news : electronic authentication, Content Liability ,
Security and Privacy, Self-Regulation, Spam. English.
- Working groups http://www.ilpf.org/
- Documents http://www.ilpf.org/groups/index.htm#security
PFIR , People For Internet Responsibility, is a resource for
discussion, analysis, education, and information regarding Internet issues: lawsuits over Internet
regulatory issues; serious issues of privacy and security; and ever-increasing spam, virus, and
related problems, etc. http://www.pfir.org/, English. EU Law Portal s a resource from lawyers which includes a
section about "Internet Law and regulations" https://www.ibls.com/eulaw/home.htm, English.
Privacy - About privacy protection, some leads:
- http://www.vie-privee.org/imprimer.php for the French
- http://www.renseignementsgeneraux.net/ French
- http://security.resist.ca/ for English
- A good resource oriented security and anonymity, by Denis Dubois,
- http://www.anonymat.org/, French.
- http://www.bigbrotherinside.org/, English.
- The Web site assiste.free.fr, apart from technical issues,
quote some rights in relation with privacy. French.
- http://assiste.free.fr/p/pages_diverses/accueil_01.php
- The research center of the Ottawa University has gathered a
great international resource about the rights of the person.
- http://www.uottawa.ca/hrrec/links/cprint_f.html
The issue of email control, seen from the angle of controlling the
emails of employees http://www.murielle-cahen.com/p_mail.asp, French. - Two Web sites discuss another issue of email interception: email and
legal professional secrecy. French.
- http://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/v2-3/linval.html
Information technology law - Lex electronica is a Canadian Web site, edited by Cynthia Chassigneux,
about Information technology laws, writing and information society, evidence, etc.. Also a place
for an opinion about the meaning of the law, French.
- http://www.lex-electronica.org/
- An interesting column, dedicated to copyright, "How the fear of under-protection engendered the
disaster of over-protection: constitutional examination of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act"
(DMCA) by Rémy KHOUZAM(*), French
- http://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/v9-1/
- Juriscom - information technology law, offers a legal magazine, which
publishes lawyers and academics contributions. Interesting comments on the ongoing law,
jurisprudence, etc. http://www.juriscom.net/, French.
- Resource page http://www.juriscom.net/liens.php
- DroitEnLigne, a legal portal, offers resources about IT laws and also
the press and publishing law , French.
- IT http://www.droitenligne.com/matieres/ntechno.htm
- Publishing http://www.droitenligne.com/matieres/presse.htm
In-house legal databases - A dedicated knowledge management system for the legal area: Esay Rules
is a law and regulations suite, that can be used for inspection and control. The laws, regulations
or information from which custom processes may be defined, are centralised in a database, along
with associated rules and objects, building a custom, flexible, multilingual and web-based
environment.
- See the EasyRules web site http://www.easyrules.com
find a lawyer On IT law matters, for the USA you may try a search in the
worldwide legal directory http://www.hg.org/lawfirms.html, a search by state and city
is available. This website also offers useful worldwide links in the Telecommunication area
http://www.hg.org/communi.html. English. For Australia, Arnotts Lawyers, based in Sydney, let us know
that their full-service boutique law firm specialises in technology and telecommunications law,
litigation and all court matters http://www.arnotts.net.au/. English.
Intellectual property - Feb Law FAQ, common sense analysis about site copy and linking to a
Web site.
- http://www.patents.com/weblaw.sht, English.
- International portal on intellectual property sources of the library
of the Chicago University by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and
Lecturer in Law, D'Angelo Law Library.
- http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/intlip.html,
anglais.
- Under the title Law and IT, the web site of the Max & Zoé
SPRL [Belgium] publishes comments and discussion by lawyers on intellectual property decisions
- http://www.droit-technologie.org/index.asp, French.
- The Web site of Editions des Parques - legalis.net , discuss issues
related to intellectual property, copyright, software, private copy, illegal contents, defamation,
etc.
- http://www.legalis.net/, French.
- App.legalis.net is the links page of the Agency for program
protection, who is concerned by digital works protection. APP also organize a seminar dedicated to
"cyber criminality and security answers in corporation world" 8 June 2004.
- http://app.legalis.net/paris/liens.htm#
- InterDeposit is a certification system for the author of a digital
work. Once validated by InterDeposit, the URL of the certificate is transmitted to the manager of
the rights. InterDeposit consider that a logo, associated with an hypertext link is the best way
for identifying the author's property.
- http://www.iddn.org/fr/partenaires.htm, French
- Internet and the copyright, seen from Quebec, in particular in its
relations with teaching. A document providing information, by Jacques Laurendeau from the DRD
[Direction des Ressources Didactiques] of the Quebec Ministry of Education. French and an English
version to download.
- http://www.meq.gouv.qc.ca/drd/aut/internet.html,
French
In France the main places to register multimedia works are
the Bibliothèque nationale and the Société des Auteurs Compositeurs. find a lawyer On intellectual property law matters in the USA, the findLaw
portal may help finding a lawyer http://www.findlaw.com, English.
Issues related to open source - Legal issues discussion and defense of the GNU free software license.
"Help us to Fight For a Software Patent Free Europe".
- http://petition.eurolinux.org/signatures.html, English
- http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=fr, French.
- The copyleft or the GNU free copy license for documentation
- http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
- Text version http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt
Legal aspect of Spam SPAM and the law in France and in Europe http://www.caspam.org/lois_anti_spam.html , French. - Spam legal issues, see also http://www.euro.cauce.org/fr/index.html, French
- Fighting against spamming : from trusting the digital economy to
suspecting its actors" by Guillaume Teissonnière, published by Juriscom.net on 04/02/2004 :
"No exact definition of spamming has been agreed; though European Union efforts in order to give
the Member States a regulation for fighting the spam only ended in trompe-l'oeil solutions."
Article to download
- http://www.juriscom.net/pro/visu.php?ID=482, French.
- Spam Laws including the United States and the European Union.
- http://www.spamlaws.com/, English.
- Spam laws now in effect, by james kaminski, English.
- http://www.arentfox.com/publications/alerts/alerts2004/
Cryptography - cryptology regulations - French - French and European regulations
- http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/reglementation/regl.html#crypto
- European background http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/reglementation/europe.html
- List of products that are free for use
- http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/index.html
- Certified profiles http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/confiance/certificats.html
We have also dedicated a distinct section of our survival kit to the
data security issue. Recently removed resource Droit du Web, information resource about the computer,
multimedia, networks, telecommunication law, formerly at this address
http://www.droitweb.com/dw2/index.jsp, but no longer seems to exist. French.
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