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On October 2, ICANN issued its Final Implementation Report and Recommendations of the Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform. See also the Markle Foundation Report, dated September 18: Enhancing Legitimacy in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – Accountable and Transparent Government Structures.
A three year old web defamation case is in the news again. It began when Judge Joan Orie Melvin of the Pennsylvania Superior Court filed a defamation suit in Loudon County, Virginia in 1999 against an anonymous webmaster who published comments to his site, hosted by AOL. The AOL legal department posted copies of decisions …
The House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, held an oversight hearing on “Piracy Of Intellectual Property On Peer-to-Peer Networks,” September 26, 2002. The Statement of Gigi B. Sohn, President, Public Knowledge, is here. The Statement of Hilary Rosen, Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America, is here.
An advocacy group, the Save Internet Radio Campaign, is rallying supporters of streaming media to support passage of H.R. 5469, introduced by Rep. Sensenbrenner.
Cyber-critics, free speech and online anonymous web postings have become a combustable combination. The result is cyberSLAPP law suits, which seek to force ISPs to reveal the names of those who have posted anonymous statements critical of high profile individuals. An example of just such a case involves a Pennsylvania judge and a now defunct …
If you are interested in following the developments in the Enron case, a former hot news story that has been moved to the back burner in recent months, then visit The Daily Enron. This public interest site maintains an active collection of news, commentary, book reviews and documents on corporate and government accountability.
The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy was established in 1995 to disseminate resources on issues including freedom of expression, intellectual property, privacy and e-commerce. Especially useful are the site’s “Cyberspace Law Bibliography” of print and online sources, and links to “Top Internet-Related Cases and Statutes (U.S.).”
OASIS is a non-profit, world wide consortium of coporations and individuals that seeks to establish “create standards for the electronic exchange of legal data” using XML.
The GAO today issued a report, Information Management: Update on Implementation of the 1996 Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments. The GAO’s study indicates a significant backlog in the response of federal agencies to freedom of information requests. Due no doubt in no small measure to the Patriot Act, agencies have not kept pace with …
Amazon.com plans to update its privacy policy this October in response to pressure from advocacy group EPIC, consumer complaints and a coalition of state attorney generals. See this press release from Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly indicating that Amazon has agreed “to clarify policy, protect customer data.”
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (ISP) hosts several resources focused on how the Internet, intellectual property and telecommunications impact our civil liberties. The site posts working papers and information about policy initiatives. In addition, the project sponsors a provocative, insightful, and informative searchable weblog, LawMeme, with commentary on legal-tech issues provided by …
Advocacy groups are lobbying for the repeal of CIPA’s (The Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000) web filtering requirements for public libraries that receive federal funds. An ACLU press release and a preliminary research report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argue that the use of such filters is ineffective in preventing access to harmful …
