AllTheWeb Adds Dictionary Lookup Feature
“AlltheWeb now links each query term and phrase to a dictionary lookup on dictionary.com.” See their news update page for additional information.
Australian Internet Liability Case Resurfaces
On December 11, 2002, I posted on the High Court of Australia’s ruling in the Internet defamation case Dow Jones and Company v. Gutnick. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Barron’s (owned by Dow Jones) news bureau editor/reporter Bill Alpert (the author of the article at issue in the case) filed a complaint with the …
Law Firm Website Design and Content
Business lawyer Bruce MacEwen’s article, Planning a Web Site With Some Punch, reviews the best practices that now comprise standard content areas on most law firm websites.
New Report on the Digital Divide
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new report today: The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide. Use this link to download the full-text report in PDF or to access each section of the table of contents. Amanda Lenhart, the Research Specialist who authored this report, …
Ask the White House
The White House has launched Ask the White House, “a live online interactive forum where you can communicate with White House and administration officials.” The forum is for one hour, 7pm – 7:30pm (ET), and questions may be submitted in advance. Guests are announced on the website.
Iraqi Libraries Destroyed
Via AP, this story from April 15: “Looters and arsonists ransacked and gutted Iraq’s National Library, leaving a smoldering shell Tuesday of precious books turned to ash and a nation’s intellectual legacy gone up in smoke. They also looted and burned Iraq’s principal Islamic library nearby, home to priceless old Qurans…” See also this first …
File Sharing and Copyright
Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), contributed an opinion column to The Daily Princetonian on the relentless music industry campaign against students who engage in file sharing on campuses across the country. He suggests, “We need to collect a pool of money from Internet users, and agree on …
EFF Resources on Super DMCA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has published an analysis and a group of very useful resources on the so-called Super DMCA legislation that is under consideration in state legislatures around the country. See their press release here, and the following links: State “Super-DMCA” Legislation: MPAA’s Stealth Attack on Your Living Room State-Level “Super DMCA” Initiatives …
More on New German Copyright Law
My thanks to attorney Walter Simon who responded to my request for assistance with a translation concerning yesterday’s posting about the new German copyright law. Walter sent me this link to his blog posting of April 10 that references resources in English on the new law. In addition, he also recommended this link from the …
Supreme Ct. Justice Speaks Up for Civil Liberties
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer delivered a speech before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in which he addressed the need to protect civil liberties within the context of the fight against terrorism. As a counterpoint, please see my previous posting on recent comments by Justice Scalia that when …
Commentary and Analysis of the RIAA Lawsuits Against College Students
Princeton University student Joseph Barillari posted an essay, which has since been updated several times, titled An analysis of the RIAA’s complaint against Dan Peng ’05, on his blog. This document is a useful resource that contributes to the understanding of the specific technologies and their applications at issue in the RIAA’s lawsuit on contributory …
More Bad News for UK E-Gov Sites
As a follow-up to my April 10 posting on troubles with UK e-gov sites, there is more bad news in that department. The Register reported a new survey indicates that in addition to accessibility problems, the government sites were rife with errors, at the rate of seven times that of “the UK’s leading 100 companies.” …