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The Voice of Webcasters (VOW) provides information and resources on the effort to “promote and defend the industry,” and seeks support for passage of H.R. 5469 , the bill to suspend for 6 months the implementation of royalty rates. The group also sponsors a moderated listserv for members of the industry.
The Washington Post has published a useful background report outlining the issues of the Edlred case argued in the Supreme Court on October 9. Included are links to primary documents, a list of organizations and their web sites that support Eldred and the government’s position respectively, and reactions to the arguments from the American Library …
From the peer-reviewed Internet journal First Monday, Understanding the Privacy Space this report reviews “133 different privacy-related software tools and services.”
Wonder which filtering software program your company is using? Perhaps it is this one.
This ZDNet article states that the Patent Policy Working Group’s Royalty-Free Patent Policy has been approved, albeit not published in final version to date.
The University of California at San Diego has taken alot of flack for their attempt to force a student site to remove web links to revolutionary groups on university owned servers. See my previous posting on this topic. The University has now decided to recind their demand on basis of the students right to free …
According to Declan McCullagh, Duke University law school’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain will be in the position to advocate aggressively against the DCMA and copyright extensions with their new $1 million anonymous grant.
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren certainly has strong support in Silicon Valley for the Digital Choice and Freedom Act she introduced on October 2. Please see my previous post which provides more details on H.R 5522.
New legislation signed by the President has altered the copyright landscape for distance educators who may now use excerpts from recordings of dramatic literary and musical works — such as plays, musicals, and operas — on course Web sites without seeking permission from the copyright owners.
The EU Competition Commissioner has issued a regulation that approves the administration of licensing rights for web broadcasting by 18 countries (15 EU members and three European Economic Area (EEA) countries.
Via his blog, Professor Lessig shares some thoughts prior to his oral argument in Eldred v. Ashcroft.
The Google News Beta has a quick and easy canned search to follow news stories on the Eldred v. Ashcroft case. http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2002/10/20021010_a_main.asp
