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On March 27, Sen. Biden introduced S. 731, the Secure Authentication Feature and Enhanced Identification Defense Act of 2003″ (SAFE ID Act), to prohibit fraud and related activity in connection with authentication features. “This bill will increase penalties for illegally using authentication features, such as holograms or watermarks, to create false, misleading or inaccurate identification. …
From the June 16 Federal Register: GSA Discontinues Printing and Distribution of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: The Internet and GSA’s free CFDA Web site will be the primary means of disseminating the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. In addition to what is already there, the Web site will soon contain a version of …
The press release, FTC Joins International Law Enforcers in Announcing Newly Developed Cross-Border Fraud Guidelines, is here, and provides links to press releases from participating countries, including Australia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. See also: From the OECD press release: OECD governments have agreed on guidelines outlining a framework for international co-operation …
According to this New York Times article from June 16, Net Profiling Lures Advertisers, “visitors to The Wall Street Journal Online today will become the latest lab rats of online advertising, as the Web site starts grouping them into classes like “car buffs” and “consumer techies,” all the better to serve them ads for Lexus …
Internet Law 2003, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School, presented by Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Prof. Charles Nesson and John Palfrey. Links are provided to resources on course topics that include: jurisdiction on the internet; P2P file sharing; digital democracy; litigation and the digital environment; and privacy.
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Copyright and licensing for digital preservation. “Libraries cannot preserve digital material they do not own. Adrienne Muir describes a new project to identify copyright and licensing issues that currently hinder digital preservation and looks at whether new legislation (UK) will help.”
The dead poets society: The copyright term and the public domain, by Matthew Rimmer. “This paper…advocates a critical theory of copyright law, which highlights the gap between the symbolic significance of legislation, and its instrumental effects in terms of economic impact and cultural costs. It demands a greater scrutiny of the politics and the rhetoric …
NY Times Archive, Weblogs and RSS Accessing the NY Times archive through their RSS feeds
Professor Pamela Samuelson, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, published a new article, The Constitutional Law of Intellectual Property After Eldred v. Ashcroft, 50 J. Cop. Soc’y (forthcoming 2003). Link via A Copyfighter’s Musings, which reviews the article, and its significant citations from other forthcoming articles.
Steven D. Hinckley, Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology & Professor of Law, University of South Carolina, authored, Your Money or Your Speech: The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Congressional Assault on the First Amendment in Public Libraries, in the Washington University Law Quarterly, vol. 80, No. 4, Winter 2002 (via The …
Electronic filing of all Section 16 reports will become mandatory on June 30, 2003. See Release No. 33-8230 which states: We are adopting rule and form amendments to mandate the electronic filing, and website posting by issuers with corporate websites, of beneficial ownership reports filed by officers, directors and principal security holders under Section 16(a) …