Commercial links
 
Example links
Access provider: http://www.mweb.co.za 21
Bulletin board: http://www.24.com/service/messageboard 17
Chat line: http://www.mirc.co.za 17
Cyber shopping mall: http://www.mall.mweb.co.za 157
Peering agreement: http://www.uni-c.dk/dix/peer-eng.html 22
Portal: http://www.24.com 28
Second generation South African search engine: http://www.max.co.za 25
Transaction facilitator providing financial administration: http://www.ecnet.co.za 26
Web site with the sole function of reporting online scams: http://www.fraud.com 430
Links to home pages
CDT free speech home page: http://www.cdt.org/speech/ 348
CyberCash home page: http://www.cybercash.com 299
Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology home page: http://www.dacst.gov.za 105
Department of Communications home page: http://docweb.pwv.gov.za/ 7, 32, 105
Department of Communications The E-commerce debate home page (1999): http://www.ecomm-debate.co.za/ 106
Department of Trade and Industry home page: http://wwwdti.pwv.gov.za/dtiwww/ 105
DigiCash home page: http://www.digicash.com 300
Free speech organisations on the Internet (home pages): http://www.cdt.org/links/national.html 348
Hatewatch home page: http://www.hatewatch.org 358
Infosat home page: http://www.infosat.co.za/ 14
ISOC home page: http://www.isoc.org 29
ISOC SA home page: http://www.isoc.org.za 7, 33
ISPA home page: http://www.ispa.org.za 31
Mondex home page: http://www.mondex.com 306
National Research Foundation home page: http://www.frd.ac.za 8, 33
OpenMarket home page: http://openmarket.com 299
Reserve Bank National Payment System home page: http://www.resbank.co.za/NPS/nps.html 279
SAIX home page: http://www.saix.net 30
SARS VAT home page: http://www.sars.gov.za/ 258
SATRA home page: http://www.satra.gov.za/ 4, 31
Siyanda home page: http://www.siyanda.co.za 14
South African ISDN Forum home page: http://www.saif.org.za 32
Telkom home page: http://www.telkom.co.za 30
Universal Service Agency home page: http://www.usa.org.za/ 4, 32
Visa Cash home page: http://www.visa.com/pd/cash/main.html 301
World Wide Web Consortium home page: http://www.w3.org 28
Other commercial links
Bacard Anonymous Remailer FAQ (1999): http://www.well.com/user/abacard/remail.html
Bank for International Settlements Implications for Central Banks of the Development of Electronic Money (1996):
http://www.bis.org/publ/ 295, 296, 302
Bilstad Obscenity and indecency on the Usenet: The legal and political future of Alt.Sex.Stories (1998):
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue2/bilstad.html 348
Burk Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages (1998): http://ltc.warwick.ac.uk/JILT/intprop/98_2burk/contentf.htm 39
Caden & Lucas Accidents on the Information Superhighway: On-line liability and regulation (1996): http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/2vi1/caden_lucas.html 333
Centre for Democracy and Technology Letter to Senator McCain (20 May 1999): http://www.cdt.org/speech/letter/cdtletter2McCain.shtml 347
Centre for Democracy and Technology Constitutional analysis of the COPA (1998): http://www.cdt.org/speech/constitutional.html 346
Cookie Central The Unofficial Cookie FAQ (1999): http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/index.shtml 388
Cooper & King Spreading hate on the Internet (1999): http://www.wiesenthal.com/itn/oped09.htm 358
Crawford Is Electronic Money Really Money? (1997): http://www.mccarthy.ca/ pub_docs/docview.asp?file=mt%2Demidx%2Ehtml&language=0 297
Crede Electronic Commerce and the Banking Industry: The Requirement and Opportunities for New Payment Systems Using the Internet (1995): http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue3/crede.html 278
Del Gallo Who owns the web site? The ultimate question when a hiring party has a falling-out with the web site designer (1998): http://www.jmls.edu/jcil/16/delgallo.html
Department of Communications Discussion paper on Electronic Commerce policy (1999): http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/discuss/ecomm.html 106
Department of Communications Overview of the E-commerce policy process (1999): http://www.ecomm-debate.co.za/docs/presentations/
ecom-launch/index.htm
106
Edward, Nathan & Friedland Inc. Report on E-commerce legal issues (1999):
http://www.ecomm-debate.co.za/docs/report.html 106
Executive Summary of Media Africa survey: http://www.mediaafrica.co.za/isp97.html 6
Gahtan Free speech rights apply in cyberspace, CDA declared unconstitutional: http://gahtan.com/alan/articles/cda-lawt.htm 345
Gordon The Legal Challenge of Regulating the Internet: Fact or Fallacy (1998): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/5090/index.html 406
Group of Ten Electronic Money: Consumer protection, law enforcement, supervisory and cross border issues (1997):
http://www.oecd.org/fatf/index.htm 278
Guide on how to disable cookies: http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html 388
Hambridge Set of guidelines for spammers (1999):
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-run-spew-08.txt 384
Hartnick Copyright & Trademarks on the Internet (1998): http://www.ljx.com/internet/02cptmint.html
Heinrich Harmonised Global Interchange ­ UNCITRAL's Draft Model Law for Electronic Data Interchange (1999):
http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/articles3/hein3.html 291, 292
Interim ruling of the Competition Board in the ISPA v Telkom matter:
www.ispa.org.za/interim_ruling.html 6
International links on E-commerce policy:
http://www.ecomm-debate.co.za/links.html 106
International regulation of child pornography, including Germany, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Canada, the EU, France, Italy, UNESCO, UNICEF and other international developments at
http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/interdev.htm 349
Internet II: www.ccic.gov/ngi 19
ISOC SA Namespace in South Africa (1999) at
http://www.isoc.org.za/namespace.html 34
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press6.html 5
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press1.html 3
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press14.html 7
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press2.html 4
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press4.html 4
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press5.html 5
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press7.html 6
ISPA press statement: http://www.ispa.org.za/press9.html 6
ISPA submission: http://www.ispa.org.za/submission3.html 7
ISPA submission to Competition Board:
http://www.ispa.org.za/submission.html 4
ISPA submission: http://www.ispa.org.za/submission2.html 5, 6
Kirsh, Phillips & McIntyre Recommendations for the Evolution of Cyberlaw (1998): http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue2/kirsh.html 381
Koops Crypto Law Survey (1999):
http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm
Lessani How much do you want to bet that the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 1997 is not the most effective way to tackle the problems of online gambling? (1998): http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/alessani.html 318
Links to existing and emerging laws on junk e-mail and spamming: http://www.tigerden.com/junkmail/laws.html 383
Links to Internet privacy issues in the US: http://www.epic.org/privacy/ 373
Links to various discussion papers and other material of the European Parliament on harmful and illegal content on the Internet:
http://www.cyber-rights.org/eu-watch/ 348
Links to various hate sites: http://www.hatewatch.org 358
Media Africa Internet user survey:
http://www.mediaafrica.co.za/webusers.html 7
Media Africa Internet commerce survey:
http://www.mediaafrica.co.za/webcommerce.html 7
Media Africa Press statement on the 3rd SA Internet Services Survey at http://www.mediaafrica.co.za/sisnew.html 8
Minister of Telecommunications Speech at the launch of the E-commerce Discussion Paper (1999):
http://www.ecomm-debate.co.za/docs/sp/sp0729-99.html 106
OECD Ottawa Conference home page: http://www.ottawaoecdconference.org/english/home page.html 100
Overview of the South African Internet industry: http://www.internet.org.za/overview1.html 5
Potts & Harris Defamation on the Internet (1996): http://www.cyberlibel.com/introduc.html 337
Rosenoer Libel and suppression (1995): http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylw1094.html 341
Rosenoer The Privacy Directive (1995):
http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylw0895.html 376
Sampson Hyperlink at your own risk (1997): http://www.ljx.com/internet/0624hyper.html
Sharkey & Meyer The proliferation of Hate Speech on the Internet: What can be done? (1997):
http://wings.buffalo.edu/Complaw/CompLawPapers/sharkey.htm 359
Sim Privacy on the Information Highway (1994): http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~psim/privacy.html 381
Sim Prodigy in Canada: Online libel revisited (1995): http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~psim/libel2.html 341
Sim The Legal Problems of Electronic Data Interchange (1994): http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~psim/edi.html 292
Stalder Electronic Money: Preparing the Stage (1997):
http://erp.fis.utoronto.ca/~stalder/html/e-cash1.html 288
The development of policies in South Africa: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/process.html
The Internet Blue Paper: http://www.internet.org.za/bluepaper.html 6
Topological map of Southern African Internet access providers: http://ispmap.org.za 21
UK regulation of child pornography, including legislation, statistics, police operations and background papers:
http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/ukcases.htm 349
US and EU statement on e-commerce: http://www.giic.org/focus/ecommerce/ecuseu.html 99
US and Japan statement on e-commerce:
http://www.giic.org/focus/ecommerce/ecusjp.html 100
US Department of Energy Internet Cookies (1998): http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-034.shtml 388
USA regulation of child pornography, including legislation, cases, FBI operations and recent developments:
http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/uscases.htm 349
Weiss Metasites linked to IP Violations (1997):
http://www.ljx.com/internet/0721metasites.html 56
Legal links
South African legislation and treaties
All current telecommunications legislation: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 1
Broadcasting Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 408
Broadcasting Bill: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/bills/1998/ 408
Double Taxation Agreements (South Africa): http://www.sars.gov.za/ 239
Films and Publications Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/act96-065.html 8, 199, 350, 360, 416, 348
Films and Publications Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/index.html 8, 199, 350, 360, 416, 438
Films and Publications Amendment Act:
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1999/index.html 199, 416, 438
Former States Post and Telecommunications Re-organisation Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 3
IBA Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 413
Income Tax legislation: http://www.sars.gov.za/ 250
Interception and Monitoring Prohibition Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 2, 219, 372, 429
National Emergency Telephone Services Act:
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 2
National Gambling Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/index.html 318
National Payment System Act:
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1998/index.html 279
Open Democracy Bill: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/bills/1998/ 201, 379
Post Office Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/doclaw.html 29
Prevention of Organised Crime Act:
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1998/index.html 319
South African Constitution:
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/constitution/saconst.html 186, 214, 367, 438
South African Constitution: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/constitution/index.html 186, 214, 367, 438
South African Constitution: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/index.html 186, 214, 367, 438
Telecommunications Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/index.html 4, 18, 29, 403
Telecommunications Act: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/act96-103.html 4, 18, 29, 403
Telecommunications Amendment Bill (1999):
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/bills/1999/index.html 403, 406
Value Added Tax Act: http://www.sars.gov.za/v_a_t/general/act_index.htm 259
 
South African discussion documents
Law Commission Project 108 (1998):
http://www.law.wits.ac.za/salc/salc.html 424
Law Commission Discussion Paper 78:
http://www.law.wits.ac.za/salc/discussn/discussn.html 219
Telecommunications Green Paper: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/green_papers/telecomms.html 2
Telecommunications White Paper:
 
International legislation
Child Online Protection Act: http://www.cdt.org/legislation/105th/speech/copa.html 346
Communications Decency Act: http://www.cdt.org/policy/freespeech/12_21.cda.html 344
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: http://floridalawfirm.com/fraud.html 427
Electronic Communications Privacy Act: http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/LAW/ref5.html 220, 375
Electronic Publications and Privacy Act: http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/uscode.html 429
EU Data Directive: http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/dataprot/directiv/directiv.html 379
Links to existing and emerging laws on junk e-mail and spamming: http://www.tigergarden.com/junkmail/laws.html 383
 
International treaties, discussion documents and model laws
Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS): http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/political-science/gatt/27.txt 38
Berne Convention: http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html 37
EU Data Protection Directive: http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/dataprot/directiv/directiv.html 201, 376
EU Green Paper: "Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society": http://europa.eu.int/en/record/other/istocen.htm 38
European Initiative in Electronic Commerce: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/ecomcom.htm 99
Framework for Global Electronic Commerce: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/Commerce/ 99
Model Law on Electronic Commerce: http://www.uncitral.org/en-index.htm 181
OECD Model Tax Treaty: http://www.oecd.org//daf/fa/MATERIAL/Mat_02.htm#material_1992_Model 239
Paris Convention: http://www.cpo.cn.net/p37eb.htm 38
Towards the Age of the Digital Economy ­ For Rapid Progress in the Japanese Economy and World Economic Growth in the 21st Century: http://www.miti.go.jp/intro-e/a228101e.html 99
UNICITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce: http://www.mpo.cz/english/f/fna.htm 98
UNIDROIT General Principles of International Commercial Contracts: http://www.unidroit.org/english/principles/pr-main.htms 168
WIPO Copyright Treaty: http://cdcc.kcaf.or.kr/wipo_copye.htm 38
 
International court judgments
ACLU v Reno II judgment: http://www.cdt.org/speech/ACLUvsRENOdecision.shtml 346
Bret Michaels v Internet Entertainment Group Inc.: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/intart64.htm 49
Cubby Inc. v CompuServe judgment: http://people.hofstra.edu/hu/faculty/peter_spiro/cyberlaw/cubby.html 331
Futuredontics Inc. v Applied Anagramatics Inc.: http://www.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/futured.htm 60
Mainstream Loudoun v Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library judgment: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int-art124.htm 347
Marobie-FL Inc. v National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int-art65.htm 64
Panavision International, LP v Toeppen: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/
getcase.pl?court=9th&navby=docket&no=9755467
84
Playboy Enterprises Inc. v Russ Hardenburgh Inc.: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int-art47.htm 65
Playboy Enterprises Inc. v WebbWorld Inc.: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int_synopses.html 49
Playboy Enterprises v Frena: http://people.hofstra.edu/hu/faculty/peter_spiro/cyberlaw/frena.htm 62
Religious Technology Centre v NetCom Online Communication Services Inc.: http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/Scientology_cases/whyte_cos_v_erlich_092295.ruling 63
Reno v ACLU judgment: http://www.ciec.org/SC_appeal/opinion.shtml 344
Shetland Times Ltd v Dr Jonathan Wills and Zetnews Ltd: http://www.kona.com.au/ian/law/haminlto.htm 53,57
St Albans City and District Council v International Computers Ltd: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1995/cbr/cases/case14/ONE.HTM 173
State of Minnesota v Granite Gate Resorts Inc. judgment: http://zeus.bna.com/e-law/cases/granite.html 321
State of Missouri v Interactive Gaming & Communications Corp judgment: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int-art77.htm 322
Storm Impact Inc. v Software of the Month Club: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int-art107.htm 52
Stratton Oakmont et al. v Prodigy Services Company judgment: http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/Legislation/Legal/Cases/Stratton_Oakmont_Porush_v_Prodigy/stratton-oakmont_porush_v_prodigy_et-al.decision 331
Washington Post Co. v Total News Inc. (plaintiffs complaint): http://www.ljx.com/internet/complain.html 60
Washington Post Co. v Total News Inc. (settlement):
http://zeus.bna.com/e-law/cases/totalset.html 60
 
An updated list of these links is available on the website of this publication at http://www.cyberlaw.24.com