Re: Sports News on the web page ,
 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
arfan.aziz@enron.com