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From dc.internet.com: “Sen. Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) has added copyright infringement penalties to his laundry list of complaints about the music industry’s litigation campaign against individual file swappers, telling reporters Thursday he will introduce legislation to reduce the current range of $750 to $150,000 fines per downloaded song.”
VeriSign’s introduction of its Site Finder service on September 15 ignited a firestorm of controversy. Today ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey sent a letter to VeriSign’s Executive VP Russell Lewis stating: “VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new report, Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk: “…a straightforward change to the plans of trusted computing vendors could leave the security benefits intact while ensuring that a PC owner’s will always trumps the wishes of those who’ve loaded software or data onto the PC.
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
From Sen. Russ Feingold’s press release: “…the Security and Freedom Ensured (SAFE) Act (S. 1701)…seeks to amend several particularly controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that permit the FBI to monitor law-abiding Americans without adequate judicial oversight. The SAFE Act reins in secret searches, curbs roving wiretaps, and imposes reasonable limits on FBI access …
The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC’s Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS – Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist FOIA Facts: Inside the …
“New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today a settlement with Yahoo! Inc., the internet portal company based in Sunnyvale, California, that will protect consumers from unwanted email and telemarketing campaigns and ensure that they understand and control marketing solicitations.” [Link] In the Matter of Yahoo! Inc.
U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing, Privacy & Piracy: The Paradox of Illegal File Sharing on Peer-to-Peer Networks and the Impact of Technology on the Entertainment Industry, 9/30/03. Includes links to Member Statements as well as witness testimony (from four panels). See specifically Mitch Bainwol, Chairman & CEO, Recording Industry …
Bimonthly Review of Law Books. This link provides access to the current issue (Volume 14 Number 4 July/August 2003), as well as to the publication archives, which date back to December, 2000. According to publisher Brian Flaherty, Reference Librarian, New England School of Law Library, (co-publisher is Prof. Michael L. Rustad) the site will …
“In comments filed September 30 on the government’s proposed “Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System” (CAPPS II), CDT argued that use of the system to enforce ordinary criminal arrest warrants would dilute its effectiveness and increase the risk of error and privacy intrusion. CDT recommended a series of privacy limits and procedural safeguards to get CAPPS …
From PBS.org, an interview conducted by Terence Smith, with “Tom Rosenstiel, a veteran journalist and media critic for both the Los Angeles Times and MSNBC, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism…and Larry Johnson…a former CIA analyst and counterterrorism official at the State Department,” concerning the “apparent leak from the Bush White House that …
From the American Lawyer today, the 2003 Associates Survey. “Firm-by-firm summaries of the whys and wherefores of the survey responses. From Akin Gump to Kramer Levin. From Latham & Watkins to Wolf Block.”