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Follow-up on Patriot Act reauthorization and libraries, from the ACLU: “In the first federal appeals court argument addressing a surveillance provision of the Patriot Act, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged a three-judge panel to uphold two separate rulings: one which found the National Security Letter (NSL) authority of the Patriot Act unconstitutional and …
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books, Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources and Digital Library Federation, (72 pages, PDF) Related references to Google’s announcement that Print Program scanning will resume, along with clarifications on the programs goals: From the Official Google Blog posting, October 31, 2005: “..the …
FOIA Falters – The law still works, but it needs a tune-up Related resources: See FOIA Facts, by Scott A. Hodes
The Future of Libraries – Beginning the Great Transformation, by Thomas Frey, Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute.
“Constitution of the United States, Analysis & Interpretation: The 2002 Edition & 2004 Supplement of The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis & Interpretation are now available in PDF format on GPO Access. Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, this document contains an annotated Constitution and analysis of cases decided by the Supreme …
Leggo My Ego, GooglePrint and the other culture war, by Tim Wu. Related links on Google Print program See also: The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography: “This bibliography presents selected electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project. …
Indexing Versus Caching & How Google Print Doesn’t Reprint Related links on the Google Print program
In following recent postings on opposition to the Google Print Program by publishers and authors, see these corporate responses, from the Official Google Blog: Why we believe in Google Print: “We’ve been asked recently why we’re so determined to pursue Google Print, even though it has drawn industry opposition in the form of two lawsuits, …
Reinventing the Empire of Secrecy: An Agenda for the First DNI, by Lee S. Strickland The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements – Revised and Updated, by Marci Hoffman Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin In the Wake of Katrina …
As reported by Stars and Stripes today, “On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps blocked all access to commercial e-mail services, such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, America Online and Google, from overseas government computers…The block includes access to e-mail services from computers at base libraries and liberty centers that are connected to an official government …
Press release, September 26, 2005: “The Library of Congress Web site at www.loc.gov today received an ‘Outstanding Websit’ award from the Web Marketing Association. The award recognizes excellence in Web site development in a number of categories.” Specialized links from the LC site include: American Memory; the Global Gateway to World Culture and Resources; THOMAS; …
In following the continuing saga of the Google Print Program, from WSJ’s Free Features today: Authors’ Second Chance “Google’s ambitious plan to put books online could give authors and publishers a new lease on life. But Google Print’s critics say the ambitious plan runs afoul of copyright laws.”
