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IP: Predicting the Legal Internet Issues for 2000 NYT
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 06:29:12 -0500
Predicting the Legal Internet Issues for 2000 [ with such statements as "It looks now as if ICANN will be "captured" by powerful commercial interests, who will use its procedures to ensure that the domain name system is hospitable to their concerns. If ICANN resists capture, however, it seems likely that those same interests will work around it and ultimately transform it into an irrelevant figurehead organization . . . I would expect that the structures created within the next year will shape domain name space for the foreseeable future. " by Jessica Litman Professor at Wayne State University Law School djf] The ancient Romans believed that it was bad luck to enter a building after tripping over its threshold. The same superstition might apply to our crossing into the next millennium, which by popular consensus is one day away. Will the year 2000 -- the threshold year -- portend good luck or ill? To find out, Cyber Law Journal asked a group of legal mavens to boldly predict the two or three most significant developments in Internet law and policy for 2000. Printed below are excerpts from some of their optimistic and pessimistic responses. http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/cyberlaw/31law.html
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