From the press release at Rosettabooks.com: “RosettaBooks LLC, a leading publisher of electronic books, and Random House, Inc., the largest English-language trade book publisher, announced today that they have settled the pending litigation filed by Random House last year over RosettaBooks’ publication of e-book editions of several Random House, Inc. titles. With no financial payment being made by either party, both sides agreed to settle their differences by partnering in further developing the e-book market through a collaborative endeavor that will expand both RosettaBooks’ already substantial e-book library and the quantity of major Random House, Inc. titles available to consumers as secure electronic downloads.”
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Daily Archives: December 4, 2002
DVD Copying Controversy Escalates
321 Studios has chosen to play David to Motion Picture Association of America’s Goliath in the legal arena. This small company has released a software application for $99.99 that allows purchasers to easily make copies of DVD movies to blank DVDs. The MPA contends that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 prevents 321 Studios… Continue Reading
President Signs Kids Internet Law
President Bush signed into law the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002 (Dec. 4, 2002; 116 Stat. 2766, P.L. 107-317). For more information about this new Internet domain for children, kids.us, please see NeuStar’s (the domain name manager) Proposal for Guidelines and Requirements for the kids.us Second Level Domain. Continue Reading
SEC Institutes Fines Over E-Mail Retention
This SEC press release concerns the agency’s joint action (along with the NYSE and NASD) against 5 high profile broker-dealers for violations of e-mail communications retention requirements. The text of the SEC’s administrative decision is here, and the companies will collectively pay $8.25 million in fines. Continue Reading
Southern District of NY to Initiate E-Filing
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, issued a press release on December 2 stating its plan to implement a new e-filing and case management system in February 2003. Continue Reading
Commentary on Total Information Awareness in the Extreme
This article by Matt Smith was published on November 27, but took some time before generating what has resulted in continually escalating interest in the activities of the TIA program by the mainstream press, privacy advocacy groups, and alternative web sites. Mr. Smith obtained and posted personal information on TIA program director John Poindexter, including… Continue Reading
New Doctor-Patient E-Mail Guidelines
Patient’s increasingly indicate that they want to communicate with their physicians via e-mail. However, there are major impediments to this process, including medical liability issues, patient privacy concerns, and billing considerations. However, according to this press release from the eRisk Working Group for Healthcare, new unified guidelines for physician-patient e-mail are now available that have… Continue Reading
More On Internet Censorship In China
Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School have published a new report on Web censorship: Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China. From the abstract: “The authors are collecting data on the methods, scope, and depth of selective barriers to Internet access through Chinese networks.… Continue Reading
