C-SPAN has a public service called CapitalHearings.org that allows you to listen live, via streaming audio, to selected Senate hearings. The site provides a schedule indicating the committee, time and location of each respective hearing. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2003
California ID Theft Legislation
California has introduced and passed pioneering legislation, (examples are here and here) to protect citizens against a range of cybercrimes. Several new bills have been introduced that seek to protect consumer privacy and stymie ID theft by limiting the use and display of social security numbers by the state, academic institutions, and employers. See AB… Continue Reading
Guides to Federal Register, CFR and Legislative History Research
The Assistant Law Librarian of the Federal Reserve Board Law Library, Richard J. McKinney, has updated his two valuable guides (both in PDF) for legal researchers: Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Legislative History Research, A Practitioner’s Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent… Continue Reading
TIA's Staying Power
Only a partial text is available to non-subscribers, but here is a link to a new Salon article, Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out, that contends Congressional efforts to limit the program may be a case of too little too late. “The federal government is unlikely to stop doing research into how to glean… Continue Reading
UK Telecom Surveillance Grows
According to this report from Statewatch, telecommunicatons surveillance conducted by the government is documented to have reached record levels throughout the UK. Continue Reading
New Online Music Venture
The big-six music retailers, organized under the name Echo, have launched a new consortium to license and distribute digital music services. Continue Reading
Kazaa Sues Movie Industry
Sharman Networks Ltd., owner of the file swapping application Kazaa, has responded to the January 23, 2003 order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denying their motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit by the music and recording industries. Sharman filed its answer and counterclaims on January 27 in which… Continue Reading
Global Cybercrime Hits All Time High
Large scale, corporate cybercrime resulting in the loss of billion of dollars worldwide is escalating dramatically according to this recent New York Times article. The article cites a recent survey from a UK computer security firm, mi2g, which is available here, that the world record for the most digital attacks conducted in one month will… Continue Reading
New Legal KM Study Project
The Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida Levin College of Law has released a study prospectus, Knowledge Management: An In-depth Look into the Current Use and Future Trends of KM in the Legal Profession and an associated study questionnaire. Continue Reading
SBC's Web Patent Fight
This month SBC Communications Inc. launched an effort to actively protect its patents on a “structured document browser,” U.S. patent No. 5,933,841 and No. 6,442,574. SBC sent a patent infringement notice to information education products website Museum Tour indicating that “any website which has static, linked information (top banners, menus, bottom banners) which are displayed… Continue Reading
Music Swapping Students May Not Remain Anonymous
In October 2002, I posted on the RIAA communicating their strong recommendation to college and university presidents that they put the brakes on the escalating rate of music downloading by students. Last week’s decision in RIAA v. Verizon has given the industry impetus to follow-through on identifying those who engage in extensive downloading of copyrighted… Continue Reading
The Long, Slow Work of Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg was established in 1971 as a volunteer effort to make important texts freely available in electronic form to readers around the world. To date, the collection comprises 6,267 e-books. See Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?) for background on this well known project and the challanges it faces. Continue Reading
