DVD trade secrets case seeks narrow cyber law ruling
The DVD Copy Control Association moves to court seeking a preliminary injunction to halt Web sites that distribute software to copy DVD movies. Lawyers say the suit’s narrow focus may avoid broad free-speech questions while fighting for trade secret protection and outlining the boundary of online hyperlinking and global digital distribution.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Mark Radcliffe
Santa Clara County
Electronic Frontier Foundation
DVD Association
Silicon Valley
California Supreme Court
New York
Jeffrey Kessler
Morgan Hill
Superior
William Elfving
Ameritech cuts 15 cents monthly basic rate in Ohio
Ameritech, Ohio’s largest local telephone company, reduces residential basic service by 15 cents to 14.25 dollars per month. The cut marks the 11th rate decrease since 1995 under a settlement with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and the Ohio Office of Consumers’ Counsel.
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Columbus
Ameritech
Ohio
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Ohio Office of Consumers' Counsel
Beth Gianforcaro
Merger hype drives Nasdaq to record gain on AOL Time Warner
Wall Street jumped as the Nasdaq rose 167.05 to 4049.67 and the Dow gained 49.64 to 11572.20 after America Online and Time Warner announced a 160 billion merger. Time Warner jumped to 90 and AOL slipped to 72 as analysts forecast wider consolidation across media and tech sectors.
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New York
America Online
Time Warner
Standard & Poor
Wall Street
AOL
New York Stock Exchange
Alan Ackerman
Fahnestock & Co
Yahoo
Lycos
Disney
News Corp
Robert Freedman
John Hancock Funds
Boston
Hewlett- Packard
IBM
Home health firm opens Elyria office
Cambridge Home Health Care expands to Elyria at 475 N Abbe Road serving 1350 local patients on Medicare Medicaid and private plans. Sue Bowers district manager will oversee new operations and bring Cambridge’s nursing aides and therapy services to the area. Cambridge based in Akron employs about 625 workers and recently earned the North Coast 99 Award for Northeast Ohio firms.
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Elyria
Cambridge Home Health Care
Abbe Road
Sue Bowers
Cambridge
Beachwood
Medina
Middlebury Heights
Youngstown
Hudson
Bowers
Akron
Nancy Diller-Shively
Ohio
Procter & Gamble Eyes Sale of Two Skin Care Lines
Cincinnati based P&G seeks bids for Biactol in France and Topexan in Italy as it refocuses on Clearasil and Oil of Olay. The teen acne brands accounted for under 1 percent of 1998 99 sales while total company sales reached 38.1 billion. If no acceptable offer arrives, P&G will retain the lines.
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Cincinnati
Procter & Gamble Co
P&g
France
Italy
Biactol
Topexan
Clearasil
Oil of Olay
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