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Report Examines Digital Business Models and Copyright Implications
From Harvard’s Digital Media Project, a new report, Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries (83 pages, PDF): “To prevent unauthorized copying of their works, copyright holders have traditionally relied on practical barriers as well as their legal exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution.… Continue Reading
Will New York Times on Web Remain Free?
From Reuters, via Yahoo News: New York Times Mulls Charging Web Readers and from Business Week, this extensive review of the paper’s business plan. Continue Reading
Industry Launches Initiative to Address E-Waste
Learn how to safely dispose of, donate, sell or reuse PCs and tech gadgets, from this new website, the Rethink Initiative, co-sponsored by eBay, Intel and other industry leaders. Related Resources: From the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition survey, “…only 15 percent of Americans are aware that electronic items can be recycled,” and from Gartner research… Continue Reading
List of Top 100 Digital Content Providers
“The fourth annual EContent 100 – our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.” Continue Reading
Google Examined By 60 Minutes
CBS News 60 Minutes, January 2, 2005: Defining Google: “What began as a school project is now worth about as much as Ford and General Motors combined, thanks to a stock that has roughly doubled in price since the company went public last August. And for the first time since then, Google has opened its… Continue Reading
Desperately Seeking Customer Support
Having recently been caught on a treadmill to nowhere in my quest for “customer care” and “technical support” from two major vendors for hardware issues, this New York Times article hits home. It describes the frustrations of trying to locate a support telephone contact number on the websites of a range of product websites. This… Continue Reading
Advocacy Group Lists Privacy Resolutions
From EPIC, Top Ten Consumer Privacy Resolutions. Continue Reading
Survey Documents Significant Privacy Issues in 2005
This InfoWorld commentary details previous consumer data compiled for the Ponemon Institute’s Privacy Trust Surveys on e-commerce and government related developments. From this data, the author concludes that in 2005, major privacy issues will be ID authentication technology, phishing, net advertising, the collection of airline passenger data, and earning consumer trust. Continue Reading
Recommendations For Recently Launched Law-Related Websites
Robert J. Ambrogi highlights 13 websites, launched this past year, that merit your review, including an online legal bookstore, an e-discovery resource, a new meta-search engine, and a collection of historical documents on the civil rights movement. Continue Reading
FTC Issues Final Rule Defining Email Spam
Press release: FTC Issues Final Rule Defining What Constitutes a “Commercial Electronic Mail Message” “The Federal Trade Commission today issued final regulations (81 pages, PDF) to facilitate the determination of whether an e-mail message has a commercial primary purpose and is subject to the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act. The CAN-SPAM Act, which took effect… Continue Reading
Global Manufacturer To Implement Website Privacy Protection Software
Consumer product manufacturer Procter & Gamble plans to implement data privacy protection software on its websites (numbering in the hundreds) to meet compliance requirements in Europe, which after testing, will be followed by rollouts in the U.S. and other countries. Continue Reading
