Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Updated May 11, 2005, Copyright Protection of Digital Television: The Broadcast Flag: “This report addresses the adoption of a broadcast flag system by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to protect digital television (DTV) broadcasts from unauthorized redistribution. The report also addresses the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of …
Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations – Compiled by Bonnie Shucha – Updated 6/2/05.
The Proposal to Reauthorize and Expand Parts of the USA PATRIOT Act: Why It’s Unnecessary and, In Some Respects, Dangerous, By Anita Ramastry. Patriot Act Extension Debated at Closed Congressional Meeting American Civil Liberties Union Testimony at an Oversight Hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001: Section 505 (National Security Letters) and Section 804 …
The Google Print program now has its own homepage, Discover and browse printed material online. [Google Blogoscoped] See also this May 23 posting, Publishers Express Continued Concerns With Google Print for Libraries Program.
Dockets Update, by Robyn Rebollo Bibliography of Employment Resources for Law Librarians, by Gloria Miccioli The Federal Civil Code of Mexico, by Prof. Jorge A. Vargas The Government Domain: New Tools For Government Research After Hours: Taste of the Nation Comes to Brooklyn / Meet Cuke Skywalker / Mail Order Wine, by Kathy Biehl
From BusinessWeek.com, A Google Project Pains Publishers – The major presses are raising thorny legal issues with the search giant’s initiative to digitize the books of the world’s great libraries. “In [this] letter, the Association of American University Presses’ Peter Givler takes issue with Google’s Print for Libraries program.” [Link] See also related postings on …
As reported by the Chicago Tribune on May 20, 2005 (and cited in American Libraries Online, with another article in the Washington Post), this summer, the Naperville, Illinois public library will install biometric scanners on their 130 PCs with web access. Related article from UPI today, on an analysis of biometrics published in the May …
Another follow-up, this time to my March 1, 2005 posting, California Bill to Prohibit State Issued IDs With RFID Tags. The aforementioned bill was approved by the California Senate on May 16. For details, see this EFF press release, Bill to Protect Californians’ Privacy, Personal Safety, and Financial Security Advances in State Senate. Related references: …
From the ACLU press release: “The Senate Intelligence Committee announced today that it is rushing forward with a markup of Patriot Act reauthorization legislation Thursday, but that the session will be behind closed doors…Some of the most extreme parts of the Patriot Act are set to sunset, or expire, at the end of this year …
The FirstGov.gov Reference Center Libraries. An alphabetical list of links to resources including: national, federal and local libraries, online library databases, email listservs, Government RSS Library, and lots more. Worth a look.
From the New York Times, this article reports that the UT Austin undergraduate library will be “empty… of books” by mid summer, having replaced them with “software suites.”
Connie Crosby contacted me with news of availability of this article, Cool Things I am Doing in My Law Library, to be presented at the upcoming CALL/ACBD meeting. Kudos to all our terrific colleagues on their innovative work.
