ICANN, the governance body responsible for policy relating to Internet domain names, recently voted in favour of adding Internationalized Domain Names to the Internet.
Internationalized Domain Names are domain names which do not use the English a-z and 0-9 characters previously required by the domain name system. Under the new system for example, a domain name might be entirely in Chinese characters. The aim is to make it easier for those users who do not have English as a language to use the Internet (if you look at the primary language in the home location of most users, there are more Internet users from non-English countries than from English).
(By Ben Lehman and Marie Louise Mortimer)
Associated Press v All Headline News Corp., 2009 WL 382690 (SDNY, 17 February 2009)
Ben and Marie-Louise provide an update on the 'Hot News' doctrine and the recent District Court of the Southern District of New York case which considered the application of ‘hot news’ misappropriation in the context of an internet-based news headlines aggregation service.
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