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European Parliament adopts Declaration against Piracy in Europe. “The European Parliament (June 5) sent an important political signal that piracy will not be tolerated, when it adopted a Declaration on the Fight against Piracy and Counterfeiting in the Enlarged EU. A majority of Euro MPs signed the Declaration that calls for concerted action against the …
In The End of History, How e-mail is wrecking our national archive, Fred Kaplan laments the lack of a paper trail for government documents, and the resulting impact on our society in terms of research, context and content that contribute to the public’s ability to access and evaluate the conduct of our democracy.
The Federal Trade Commission launched a redesigned website earlier this week. See this New Site Help page for assistance with site navigation and to locate documents and other resources whose links have been changed.
In response to the SEC’s June 4 indictment on securities fraud, Martha Stewart purchased full-page ads in today’s major newspapers declaring her innocence, and launched a new website, which currently includes a letter/appeal from her, and a statement from her attorneys. Apparently, more information about what promises to be a high-profile case will be added …
Declaration on freedom of communication on the Internet, Strasbourg, May 28, 2003, Adopted by the Committee of Ministers at the 840th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies. “The member states of the Council of Europe…should not subject content on the Internet to restrictions which go further than those applied to other means of content delivery.”
See this recent paper authored by 12 CalTech scientists, Fast TCP: From Theory to Experiments, which details their work, demonstrated through a number of controlled and public experiments, that allows users to download text, images and video from the Internet at “6,000 times the capacity of the ordinary broadband links.” definition of TCP
The USA PATRIOT Act, and What You Can Do, by Mairi McFall and Karen G. Schneider, CLA Intellectual Freedom Committee Sample Search Warrant Procedures for Libraries by Mary Minow The Library’s Legal Answer Book
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that ISP Verizon Communications must provide the RIAA with the names of four customers accused of using the service to pirate copyrighted music using file sharing sofware. For a history of this case, please see this link. The RIAA press release is here.
Libraries are growing smaller, but budgets, staffing and duties keep expanding, according to this new article on Law.com, which also links to the Second Annual AmLaw Tech Library Survey.
From American Libraries Online: “In independent actions, the Door County (Wis.) and the Livermore (Calif.) public libraries have asked lawmakers to rescind Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. The section gives federal agents the ability to get a court order to obtain an individuals bookstore or library records without establishing probable cause, and forbids …
Who Uses Fact Checkers, Anyway? is an interesting article worth noting in the context of blogging, especially given its inherent emphasis on timeliness in posting content. For some “historical” context, see this 1999 article from Searcher, Fact-Checking 101. (Forbes Magazine’s information center), which provides some much needed perspective on the limitations of virtual libraries, and …
From Rick Klau, reviews and links to browser toolbar enhancements which will broaden your online searching capabilities and also provide some useful, value-added features at no cost.
