ClickZ: Spam Fighter Habeas Wins One

Oddly, it worked - at least this time. When spam prevention company Habeas said it would prevent unwanted email by licensing the use of a copyrighted poem (a short, ancient Asian form known as the haiku) in users' email, many scoffed. But, sure enough, a Northern California Federal District Court judge ruled in favor of the anti-spam firm in a case against William Carson, awarding $104,103 in damages.

It is the second case Habeas won. The company's poem is used as a pass phrase for the spam filters on AOL, Juno and Spam Assassin, among others.