| 01/13/98 RMIUG Meeting
- Current Legal Issues of the Internet
Please note - RMIUG has a new location
for 1998! We are going back to our original
location, The National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) in Boulder. Our sincere
thanks go to NCAR for use of their facilities.
The Tuesday, January 13th meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group will
feature a presentation called "Current Legal
Issues of the Internet," a fascinating look
into the new crop of legal tangles created
by the Net. A panel of prominent lawyers
closely involved with today's Internet cases
and issues will help us sort it out. Shirley
Sostre (shirley@sostre.com),
of The Sostre Law Office in Boulder, will
be discussing the legal implications of
unsolicited email (known to netizens as
"Spam") and will present examples of recent
court cases. Carl Oppedahl (carl@oppedahl.com),
a Summit County lawyer of Oppedahl & Larson
who was written up in a recent Internet
World magazine, will discuss Internet intellectual
property issues, including domain name/trademark
issues and meta-tag issues. Oppedahl's firm
is suing an Internet Service Provider for
including "Oppedahl" and "Larson," the name
of his law firm, in its meta tags on their
web site. Richard Macklin (rmacklin@worldnet.att.net),
a Denver attorney, will discuss encryption,
sales tax, pornography, copyright, and legislative
initiatives such as making ISP's responsible
for hosted sites. Join us for an interesting
evening, and bring lots of questions (no
charge ;-) for our expert panel!
URL's of interest:
The meeting is Tuesday, January 13th from
7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start
for informal networking). The meeting will
be held at The National Center for Atmospheric
Research (note: new location!) at 1850 Table
Mesa Drive in Boulder, which is located
on the west end of Table Mesa Drive, up
the hill, right under the Flatirons. For
door-to-door driving direction, go to MapQuest
(http://www.mapquest.com/
), click on TripQuest, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park
in the NCAR lot, go in the main door, and
ask the guard to point you to meeting, which
is held in the main auditorium, right off
the lobby. The meeting is free and open
to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.
RMIUG appreciates the ongoing support
from XOR Network Engineering (http://www.xor.com)
for administration of RMIUG's electronic
discussion lists & WWW site. Thanks also
to NDA (http://www.nda.com)
for sponsorship of our group, and to our
former host, NIST, for letting us use their
facilities.
Consultants and companies are invited
to bring Internet-related product information,
brochures, and business cards which will
be displayed on an information table.
There is an email mailing list set up
for this group. General information can
be obtained by sending an Email to rmiug@rmiug.org
which will generate an auto-reply message
that tells you about the lists and how to
subscribe. You can also reach the RMIUG
"Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@rmiug.org.
Our WWW site is at http://www.rmiug.org/
Tentative schedule of the next RMIUG meeting:
- Mar 10: Mapping on the Internet, panel
discussion, including Denver's MapQuest
and other mapping/Internet companies
(To suggest a topic, send your idea to
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org)
Dan Murray dan@rmiug.org |
