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                  THE COMPUTER LAW OBSERVER
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            A free service for the Internet Community
 
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The Computer Law Observer is distributed FREE each month
via e-mail by Challenge Communications, a legal content
provider, located in Baltimore, Maryland.
 
Each issue of The Observer contains an article discussing an
important legal development relating to the Internet and
computer technology in general. The articles are written for
both lawyers and non-lawyers.
 
Topics of past issues include:
 
     *Domain Names: Cyberspace Turf Battles
     *E-Mail Confessions In Court
     *Electronic Privacy Rights: The Workplace
     *Electronic Privacy Rights: Police Power
     *Encryption: At The Limits Of Lawful Secrecy
     *License Restrictions Can Backfire
     *Raiding Employees
     *Who Owns The Software?
     *Negotiating Purchase Of A Computer System
     *Negotiating Royalty Agreements In The Information Age
     *Protecting Software
     *Privacy: What Is It?
 
The Observer appears monthly in the Baltimore Business Journal
and has also appeared in The Daily Record, Computer COUNSEL,
IEEE Computer and the Maryland Bar Journal.
 
The Observer is currently written by William S. Galkin, Esq.
<[log in to unmask]>. Mr. Galkin is in private practice
in Baltimore, Maryland and has concentrated his legal practice
in the technology area for over 10 years. He is also the adjunct
professor of computer law at the University of Maryland School
of Law, and has recently served as a special intellectual property counsel
for the Maryland Attorney General's Office.