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Dear Arfan
Thanks for all your effort. We're working on a content deal that will give us as much sports news as we want. Until we can launch this second phase of EnronOnline, we'll have to rely on other third party content for general news items (as in Europe). As best I understand it, this occasional news will be placed on the site at our discretion--Julie Ferrara will be responsible for publishing North American content, and I'm responsible for European content. So if there's something on that everyone's talking about (Football?), then we could publish a news item, if we'd like. As for the legal issue, I spoke with Mark Taylor (lawyer for Enron North America) over a month ago, and he (correct me if I'm wrong, Mark!) seemed to differentiate between 'public domain' content and 'proprietary' content, the difference between the two being whether or not you could possibly get the information from any other source. I think sports scores is usually in the 'public domain' category. So let's keep up the good work, and if you want to prepare a possible football related news item, let's move towards publishing it (always going through the normal channels, of course). Thanks Arfan Jay Enron London - EOL Product Control Group 25/04/2000 11:38 Sent by: Arfan Aziz To: James Bruce/LON/ECT@ECT cc: Anna Gardiner/LON/ECT@ECT, Enron London - EOL Product Control Group/LON/ECT@ECT Subject: Sports News on the web page James Whilst Anna is in Singapore I will be looking at the Sports ticker ideas. Anna has discovered a web page called www.sports.com which has all the information that we could possible require in any European country. The website in general: coverage of European football, cricket, golf, tennis, rugby, formula 1, rally plus US Sports links launched web site in other languages - french, german, italian and spanish won the "Best of the Web" in the sports category in Forbes Magazine's special "Best of the Web" edition website was launched August 1999 reporters are on site for major events site is used by other leading internet information providers Contact on all Press Releases is Anthony Khan at Sports.com: 0181 233 5660 About SportsLine.com, Inc. SportsLine.com, Inc. is at the leading edge of media companies providing Internet sports content, community and e-commerce on a global basis. SportsLine.com, Inc.'s content includes more than one million pages of multimedia sports information, entertainment and merchandise. Founded in 1994 as SportsLine USA, Inc., the Company changed its name to SportsLine.com, Inc. in November 1999. Its flagship Internet sports service (http://cbs.sportsline.com) was renamed CBS SportsLine in March of 1997 as part of an exclusive promotional and content agreement with CBS. SportsLine.com, Inc. produces the official league Web sites for Major League Baseball, the PGA TOUR and NFL Europe League, and serves as the primary sports content provider for America Online, Netscape and Excite. In May 1999, the Company commenced operations in Europe through its majority-owned subsidiary, Sports.com Limited. About Sports.com Ltd Sports.com (http://www.sports.com) is the leading Internet-based provider of European sports content, community and commerce. With the most comprehensive European coverage in English of football, rugby, Formula One, cricket, tennis and golf as well as all sports in local languages in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, Sports.com is the most visited European sports site. Sports.com is the official Internet media partner of Manchester United (www.manutd.com) and is the primary sports content provider for Netscape Online UK, The Financial Times' FT.com, and France Telecom's Voila and Wanadoo. Please let me know your thoughts or any ideas that you may have had re the sports ticker items on the web page. I also intend to speak to Justin Boyd re the legal issues of using information from another web site (which is copyrighted) Thanks Arfan
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