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Links to resources from today’s ACLU forum, “CAPPS II: Passenger Screening and Privacy Concerns,” are as follows: press release Remarks by Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office Fact Sheet: The Five Problems With CAPPS II: Why the Airline Passenger Profiling Proposal Should Be Abandoned
The Escalating Copyright Wars by Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law, to be published in the Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 32, Spring 2004: “Piracy is one of the biggest threats confronting the entertainment industry today. Every year, the industry loses billions of dollars in revenue and faces the potential loss of hundreds …
Tools to Dress Up The Web Browser. This brief article directs readers to several useful search engine toolbars and bookmarklets.
From the ABA Journal eReport: GOING BEYOND GOOGLE – Law Librarians Stress Legal Research by the Books. The article’s author, Hope Viner Samborn, a lawyer, is co-author of The Legal Research and Writing Handbook (Third edition, 2003).
RIAA’s Subpoena Strategy is Chilling Downloads: “The possibility of a copyright infringement suit from the Recording Industry Association of America is apparently having a chilling effect on individuals who swap online music, according to new research from the NPD Group. The market research firm said households acquiring music files online illegally reached a high of …
From the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center: “Over 3000 lawyers in private practice responded to the 2002 survey. The survey reports will be available for sale on August 22, 2003. You can read the methodology and executive summary below. Each of these is included in the survey report volumes. As in 2001, there are five …
From the USPTO press release: “The American Library Association (ALA) recently selected the Department of Commerces United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Web site as one of the MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2003. MARS is the ALAs Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the Reference and User Services Association, and represents the interests …
Press release from Overture: “Overture Services, Inc., a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, today announced the launch of the world’s largest search index of approximately 3.2 billion documents. The index was developed by the former Web search unit of Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), which Overture acquired in April.”
Here is a link to a draft of the Victory Act (89 pages, pdf), courtesy of Rich Allen, Winthrop Public Library. Rich found the link on PatriotWatch, a blog that has numerous links to related documents, most of which are hosted by advocacy groups. Many thanks Rich! For reference, see my previous related posting, Controversy …
Consumers Rate Online Search, Portals, and News: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: “E-businesses are getting better overall in the view of their customersbut performance varies widely from company to company, according to the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) study released today. The report, which includes measurements of search engines, portals, …
From the New Jersey Law Journal: Is Open Source the Beginning or End of the Software Revolution?: “The debate between open source and the traditional license model is gaining attention at all levels of the electronic universe.” Contract Law, Arbitration Agreements and the Internet: “Now that businesses have moved toward an increasing amount of e-commerce, …
From News.com: Internet service providers and Web site operators are breathing a collective sigh of relief following a court decision…from August 13 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit…that preserves a key aspect of their immunity under the Communications Decency Act.
