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From Salon, Money talks, Microsoft walks; from CBSMarketWatch, Microsoft foes find fault, vow to fight; Washington Post Special Report on the Microsoft Case; from the New York Times, Life With Microsoft Still Stifling for Rivals; from SFGate, Microsoft wins antitrust battle; from the Seattle Times, How Microsoft strategy paid off; and from SiliconValley.com, Microsoft gets …
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos. For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here.
Law.com’s Supreme Court Monitor has a number of useful resources that include: links to topical news and commentary from the American Lawyer Media family of publications; cases from the 2000 term to current (fee-based for full-text access), abstracts of cases by subject (fee-based for full-text of the decisions), and cases in which cert. was granted, …
The controversial Child Online Protection Act which specifies the “requirement to restrict access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of the World Wide Web that are harmful to minors,” is currently under review again by U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. In May 2002, the Supreme Court remanded the case, Ashcroft v. ACLU, …
Via Slashdot: Final Decree, Memorandum Opinion, Public Interest Order, Opinion on the State Settlement, and the State Settlement Order. See Microsoft’s PressPass for the company’s official response to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.’s decision, along with links to an extensive library of documents on the case.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that they received 52% of their filings for the month of September electronically. This marks a milestone in the agency’s e-government initiative to migrate filings from paper to online format.
The Supreme Court will review a number of cases this week, including United States v. American Library Association, No. 02-361, requiring the use of filtering software by all libraries receiving federal funds. For up-to-date information on this case, see the American Library Association web site on CIPA.
An August 2002 GAO report on Internet Cigarette Sales recommends “giving ATF investigative authority… to improve reporting and enforcement.” According to this TechTV article, states have lost $1.5 billion in revenues from such web sales.
It would appear that the RIAA and their industry colleagues made a quick and deep impression on university presidents with their warning letter on piracy, about which I previously posted here. TechTV reports that the huge volume of P2P traffic, which has stressed the IT infrastructure at UC Berkeley, has resulted in the implementation of …
The NASD issued a press release stating their intention to create a public portal for easier and more direct public access to broker-dealer data, as well as to broaded the content of the information provided. With their proposal, for which they seek comments by December 2, the NASD indicates that they are trying to strike …
Outlook 11, from Microsoft, will offer a whole range of new applications, but the one that is receiving special notice is a “back to the future” function that will purportedly help to kill spam. In version 11, preview mode will no longer provide access to imbedded images and HTML formatted text, which can actually be …
Political Web, launched on July 30, is a useful site for research studies on the growing use of the Internet by Congressional and gubernatorial candidates. Funded by the The Pew Charitable Trusts, researchers from the Washington State University issue regular short press releases on their findings, as well as longer, topical reports, such as this …