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A follow-up to my July 16 posting, Oyez Project Releases Supreme Court Oral Arguments in MP3 Format: from the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune, Listening in for free at the U.S. Supreme Court.
From PBS NewsHour: Terence Smith examines Howard Dean’s success at building grassroots support in cyberspace, and how other presidential candidates are using the Internet and other technologies to their advantage. Sen. John Kerry launches Internet-based petition: John Kerry To Petition Against Overtime Bill.
“The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the worlds most comprehensive collection of television network news programs, marks its 35th anniversary this week by going digital.” [Link] “Since Aug. 5, 1968, archivists at Vanderbilt University have preserved on videotape and indexed nearly 40,000 hours of network news just as they aired on television sets throughout the nation….the …
CIPA Decision Response: A statement from ALA President Carla D. Hayden and the ALA Executive Board, July 25, 2003.
Defamation Immunity On The Internet, by John W. Dean: “Recently, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unwisely held, in Batzel v. Cremers, that a federal statute immunizes certain statements on the Internet from defamation liability. But Judge Ronald M. Gould dissented, urging a closer look at the consequences of the ruling.”
From the US Association for Computing Machinery: CM’s Internet Governance Committee released a white paper entitled Internet Governance: A View from the Trenches, Participation Needed for Successful Advocacy in the ICANN Arena. “This paper discusses ICANN’s history, structure, and scope and focuses on the ability of ICANN to create private rules and regulations that impact …
From Government Computer News: “Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia late this afternoon issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Interior Department to disconnect its IT systems from the Internet, with some exceptions.” Elouise Pepion Cobell v. Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior Civil Action No. 96-1285; …
ABA Survey of Technology Use by Law Faculty – ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Technology Committee (636 law faculty responded.) Posted today on technoids.
From Kent Olson, University of Virginia Law Library: Legal Research in a Nutshell Links provides convenient access to all of the more than three hundred URLs mentioned in the book (Legal Research in a Nutshell, 8th ed., 2003), including appendices. Sites are arranged thematically by chapter and page number, and the list will be updated …
“In this Order, we adopt measures to ensure that our implementation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) complies with the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court. CIPA requires schools and libraries with computer Internet access to certify that they have Internet safety policies and technology protection measures, e.g., software filtering technology, to …
Informational Briefing on the kids.us Domain: The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will host an informational briefing regarding the launch of the new kids.us domain, Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 3 p.m.
GPO Holds a Clearance Sale as It Closes Bookstores Because of Web’s Growth: “It’s the Internet,” explained GPO spokesman Andrew M. Sherman. “Our online operation has just killed the retail end of this business. The mainstay of sales at our stores was principally regulatory information — tax rules, international trade, the Code of Federal Regulations. …
