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Walt Mossberg, the author of the Wall Street Journal Personal Technology column (no fee req’d), gives a positive review to a nifty fee-based utility, GuruNet, in GuruNet as a Reference Tool Goes Beyond Search Engines. The program costs $35 and is marketed as “the ultimate reference program: encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, companies, celebrities, stock prices, and …
Creative Commons, the unique copyright licensing project that facilitates the sharing of creative works, announced the launch of their new international program “dedicated to the drafting and eventual adoption of country-specific licenses.” Link submitted by Donna Cavallini.
According to this law.com article, “in the wake of the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and last year’s corporate scandals (such as Enron), more real- and quasi-real-time information about public companies will be available at the SEC’s Web site or directly through the Web sites of companies themselves than could have been imagined last spring.”
From the New York Times, another article on the continuing saga of Congress and their fixation with the BlackBerry wireless handhelds. As noted in my previous posting, loyalty to this Canadian device is under significant challenge from a patent infringement dispute with NTP Inc. Time will tell whether Congress will establish a new allegiance with …
Below are links with details about Wednesday’s arguments by Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Paul Smith, for the American Library Association, in United States v. American Library Association, 02-361. Start here, with Shelf-Censorship, an opinion piece that includes useful links and an important perspective on the key issues of the case, and then move on …
From the USAToday, this Op-Ed, Library restrictions borrow from colonial-era abuses is worth a read. And an opposing view from another Op-Ed in the same paper: Congressman Pickering on Children’s Internet Protection Act.
Maryland House Bill 661, Internet Child Pornography – Removal, is opposed by the advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). CDT staff counsel John B. Morris testified before the Judiciary Committee Maryland House of Delegates on March 4 that the bill has “…due process problems under the Fourteenth Amendment, free speech problems under the …
British Telecom launched “a new global identity verification system, called You Are You (URU). The system will allow governments or businesses to enter a persons details and search through databases such as the Electoral Role and Post Office Address File to authenticate their identity.”
The Opportunities and Dangers of Lawyer Blogging highlights the pros and cons of lawyer blogs.
In Interview with Bloggers, Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program Jim Calloway discussed blogs with two expert techie attorneys and I am pleased to say, colleagues; Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. A public thank you to both for mentioning beSpacific.
From the Washington Post, this timely article, Primer: Children, The Internet and Pornography, tracks the checkered past six years of laws specifically intended to protect children on the Web. Unfortunately, no links to the enacted laws and proposed legislation are provided, so here they are: the Children’s Internet Protection Act; the Child Online Protection Act; …
The American Society of Newspaper Editors recently issued a memo, The Effect of Patriot Act II on Newspapers. It focuses on three areas in which the proposed draft legislation would impact First Amendment rights: “(1) Increased surveillance authority that might chill speech, especially political dissent; (2) Increased restrictions on access to government information, either generally …
