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e-banking, e-payments, online buys and sells, among others. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4B5B68'>In this issue:</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><a href="#news"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A35A1C'>The Latest News from Around the World</span></strong></a> <br><br><a href="#editors"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A35A1C'>From Legal Correspondents and IBLS Editors</span></strong></a><br>(from legal correspondents and IBLS editors)<br>For more Internet and E-commerce news from the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean,please select from the drop down list below <br><br><a href="#articles"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A35A1C'>Featured IBLS Articles</span></strong></a><br>(articles selected from IBLS Internet law database) <br><br><a href="http://ibls.com/cs/blogs/default.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A35A1C'>Ask the Expert / Internet Law Blog</span></strong></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><a name=news></a><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#394452'>The Latest News from Around the World</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>ARMENIA: EU Launches Free Trade Negotiations with Armenia </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Brussels, 20 February 2012 - The EU decided to launch negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free trade area with Armenia in order to boost economic growth and investment with this Eastern European Partner. The negotiations will cover matters that have become crucial to a modern, transparent and predictable trade and investment environment. They will not only tackle market access conditions but also focus on regulatory approximation, which will help to achieve a closer economic integration of Armenia with the EU. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=sa&id=2098" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a><br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>Hello Friends and Internet Business Law Services Supporters: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>We are having an Executive Briefing on the cutting edge of Global Name Branding and Trademark Issues and we would like you to join us. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=sa&id=2056" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a><br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>INTERNATIONAL: E-Commerce and Tax Law Journal </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>IBLS is pleased to announce its newest law publication: E-Commerce and Tax Law Journal. The Law Journal is a legal publication created and published by the IBLS, the world largest Internet law publisher and Thomas Jefferson School of Law Masters in Law Program. The Law Journal publishes writings by academics, practitioners and policy makers on a variety of topics, including e-commerce, electronic contracting, techno torts, cyber crime, privacy, Internet taxation, international taxation, etc. These are some of the most rapidly developing areas of the law, and the dialogue initiated by the journal will help form the future of these emerging fields. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=sa&id=1841" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a><br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>OXFORD/IBLS: Global E-Business Law and Taxation </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>IBLS and its global legal network of experts bring you a representative masterpiece of global e-commerce and tax legislation! IBLS presents to you the first book in Internet law series, created in partnership with Oxford University Press: "Global E-Business Law and Taxation" <a href="http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/Taxation/?view=usa&ci=9780195367218#Product_Details">http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/Taxation/?view=usa&ci=9780195367218#Product_Details</a> Among the numerous topics related to e-commerce, taxation is the one that still has not established homogeneity among different countries'' legislation and still represents a critical issue to be addressed from both a business and legal perspective. This book intends to provide an overview of the e-commerce and e-commerce taxation laws and principles applied by diverse countries. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=sa&id=1709" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a><br><br><br></span><a name=editors></a><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#394452'>From Legal Correspondents and IBLS Editors</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>Does a Website that Archives other Websites Violate Copyrights?</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>It is fascinating to see how as new e-businesses evolve so related lawsuits do -well, it may not be that fascinating for the parties involved, but for jurists it is interesting to see the evolution of the law; particularly, how traditional legal concepts are applied to new ways of doing business. Indeed, it is now ordinary to see how the traditional legal concepts of conversion and theft are unsuccessfully applied to the online world while other concepts such as copyright laws are more successful, although sometimes tricky. This article provides an example on how copyrights laws were applied to a new e-business whose model was to archive sites from the World Wide Web. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=2494" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a>.<br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>Global Cyber Name Identities Enter New Age</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Suddenly, perfect storms are developing on the global branding fronts; the top of the agenda is now 'naming' of the brands itself and how will the names survive the rapid changes of massive digitalization of social media where such name identies reside and skate to catch customers via global cyber branding. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=2493" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><a name=articles></a><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#394452'>Featured IBLS Articles</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>Click Fraud Liability and the Meaning of "User" </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>A California district court considered the issue of whether the language of the contract entered into by the advertiser and a Web publisher was such so as to exempt the advertiser from paying fees for fraudulent clicks on its advertisements. The court denied the defendants??? motion to dismiss, finding that meaning of the term ???user??? was a triable issue. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=C0364272-CB22-4CED-B79B-02F393EFB12A" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a>.<br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>Anti-Skimming Laws in the United States </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Washington State???s anti-skimming legislation was passed in February 2008 and became effective in July 2008. The law makes it a felony to scan a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tag belonging to another without that person???s consent and to use the data for an illegal purpose, including fraud, identity theft, or stalking. In October 2008, California followed Washington State and enacted similar legislation. <br><br><a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=3CBB9AFC-C985-48A9-9195-DB2316878B74" target="_blank"><span style='color:#A35A1C'>Read more...</span></a>.<br><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8A8471'>Ethical Challenges Posed by the Transmission of Metadata </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Several U.S. attorney disciplinary bodies have issued opinions on the dangers of counsel???s inadvertently transmitting attorney-client confidences within metadata embedded within electronic documents, and regarding the ethical permissibility searching for and viewing of such metadata by attorneys who receive those documents. 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