• DocumentCode
    1559110
  • Title

    Is mousetrapping unfair?

  • Author

    Stern, Richard

  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2001
  • Firstpage
    72
  • Lastpage
    77
  • Abstract
    Mousetrapping grabs control of your Web browser and won´t let go. It grays out the back button and all back lines of dialog boxes. It can also disable the X box on the top right of your screen. Any attempt to escape just brings up the same or another pop-up window or alert box. Sometimes a flurry of Alt-F4 hits permits escape by closing the browser. Sometimes nothing but Ctrl-Alt-Del works. Sometimes even that won´t work, and the power-off switch is your only escape. Mousetrapping gained public attention recently through litigation cases have focused mainly on trademark and unfair-competition theories of wrongdoing-as well as simple copying infringements under copyright law, because of the relationship of mousetrapping to pagejacking. What remains to be developed is a theory of copyright law liability that could satisfactorily resolve these issues
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer crime; copyright; legislation; mouse controllers (computers); Internet mousetrapping; Web browser; alert boxes; copying infringements; copyright law; liability; litigation; pagejacking; pop-up windows; trademarks; unfair competition; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Internet; Java; Keyboards; Legal factors; Mice; Patent law; Switches; Trademarks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/40.977761
  • Filename
    977761