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United Nations Treaties and Principles on Space Law. “The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is the only international forum for the development of international space law. Since its inception, the Committee has concluded five international legal instruments and five sets of legal principles governing space-related activities.” Via Metalfilter.
Spammers obviously continue to irritate a very raw nerve, and Capitol Hill is piling on. Recent federal legislation from Senators Wyden and Burns, Senator Schumer, and now Senator Lofgren’s announcement of the introduction of the Restrict and Eliminate Delivery of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (REDUCE) Spam Act, added to state legislative efforts, indicate that the battle …
“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a contract to examine privacy protection in the use of terrorist tracking applications, such as the DARPA-led Total Information Awareness (TIA) program.” From Federal Computer Week.
Senator Charles E. Schumer announced the release of a new study (The Dark Side of E-Commerce: The EMail Spam Epidemic) indicating that “New York City residents receive 8.25 million junk emails a day and spend 4.2 million hours a year eliminating spam messages.” This announcement also stated the Senator plans to introduce new legislation to …
Interesting article from News.com that highlights how Ford Motor Company leveraged the technology of Ask Jeeves to analyze, design and implement more effective website features in response to consumer concerns during the Firestone tire recall, and thereafter.
This new report from the FTC, False Claims in Spam (16 page pdf), states that is the first extensive review of deceptive and unfair practices that appear in unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). The study analyzed 1,000 spam e-mails drawn from a pool of 11,000 such messages, and concluded that at least one form of deception …
The Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of Healthgrades.com v. Northwest Healthcare Alliance Inc.
See In This Library’s Tale, Seeds Of Mistrust and Hope in Iraq, from today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription req’d) that provides new information concerning the whereabouts of much of the collection ransacked from Iraq’s National Library. “Now, a prime chunk of the library is sitting in Sheik Timimi’s mosque in a Baghdad slum, under the …
The New York Public Library announced their annual Best of Reference list for 2003, which includes the following websites of note: The Scout Report and Archives; Librarians’ Index to the Internet; Statistical Resources on the Web and Online Newspapers (onlinenewspapers.com & newslink.org).
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced the availability of a new book, Intellectual Property – A Power Tool for Economic Growth, to coincide with World Intellectual Property Day (April 26, 2003). A 21 page overview of the book is available here in html, and here in pdf.
News that the Florida House of Representatives pushed ahead the vote on pending Super DMCA legislation by one day, and passed H79, Relating to Communications Services, on Thursday, April 24, – YEAS 109 NAYS 0. See my previous posting on this and other Super DMCA legislation here.
The Consumer Electronics Association issued a press release today in support of Friday’s decision in the file sharing case of Grokster and Morpheus. See also, Copyright Battle Now Turns to Other Fronts, from the LA Times (registration req’d), and not surprisingly, Kazaa applauds P2P ruling–heads back to court. Also, this Interview With the President of …