Hearing on Digital Music and Interoperability
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on Digital Music Interoperability and Availability, April 6, 2005. Link to Chairman’s Statement and Witness Statements
Category «E-Commerce»
New Report on PR Impact of Blogs
Press release: “A newly published white paper on blogs from Edelman, the world’s largest independent public relations firm, and Intelliseek, a marketing intelligence firm and provider of one of the Internet’s leading blog portals, explores the importance of the blogging phenomenon for public relations and marketers and provides a first-of-its-kind directory of influential bloggers, segmented …
Personal Data Remains Widely Available on Net
From the Washington Post, via truthout, Net Aids Access to Sensitive ID Data addresses how it continues to be easy and inexpensive to obtain personal data on the web from a variety of sources, despite the escalating controversy focused on a range of recent ID theft scams launched against large database aggregators.
New Domains: .JOBS and .TRAVEL
ICANN Completes Negotiations with Applicants for .JOBS and .TRAVEL: “ICANN has completed negotiations with the applicants for the .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored top-level domains. The .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored TLD registry agreements have been posted on the ICANN website and submitted to the ICANN Board for approval.”
Advocacy Group Report Counters Assault on P2P Technology
From the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), the following documents: New Report Presents First Analysis of Critical Role of Peer-to-Peer in Technological Innovation, Economic Growth and Consumer Benefits Statement of Mark Cooper on the release of Time for the Recording Industry to Face the Music The full report, 79 pages, PDF: Time for the Recording …
New Services Respond to Growing Consumer Concern With ID Theft
From Internetnews.com, this article on soon to be released fee-based products providing consumers with tracking and alert services on fraudulent activities associated with their personal data.
Proposal to Better Regulate Information Privacy
A Model Regime of Privacy Protection, by Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School, and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, EPIC, March 10, 2005 (14 pages, PDF). “Privacy protection in the United States has often been criticized, but critics have too infrequently suggested proposals for reform. Recently, there has been significant legislative interest at both the …
Corporate Executives and Their Blogs
Look Who’s Blogging – How five executives got blog religion and are using it to their professional and personal advantage.
Commentary on WSJ’s Subscriber Strategy
From Wired, a critique of the Wall Street Journals’ adherence to a fee based subscription strategy that prevents search engine indexing of their extensive, authoritative, and highly regarded content. This in turn results in very limited linking to their articles by a ever expanding community of bloggers and website publishers. The debate should and will …
New York Times Buys About.com
From the New York Times press release today: “Our core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and disseminating high-quality news, information and entertainment. We do this at all of our properties and the same is true of About. Ranking in the top 15 most frequently visited sites, About.com is one of the Web’s …
White Paper Critical of High Tech End User License Agreements
Press release: “Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a white paper (Dangerous Terms A User’s Guide to EULAs) warning consumers about how they can be harmed by end user license agreements (EULAs) for consumer electronics and online services. Many EULAs contain terms that damage consumer interests, including invitations for vendors to snoop on …
PR Battle Escalates in Anticipation of P2P Antipiracy Case Before Supreme Court
As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court, the Messages Grow Manic Legal documents related to the case.
