The innovative Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) is now using a blog publishing application, provides links to other Yale sponsored blogs and legal-tech content, and offers readers the choice between viewing the journal articles in Word of PDF. See this article from the current issue, Copyright’s Digital Reformulation, by Brodi Kemp (YLS 2004). The author “argue(s) that content providers are ‘recreating the bottle’ around their intellectual property, using digital technologies to reinforce their business models and supplant copyright.” Please note that a previous version of this article by the same author, dated September 2001, was published here.
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Daily Archives: April 17, 2003
Social Security Admin. Launches New Site
On April 15, the Social Security Administration launched a redesigned website, Social Security Online, along with a new url. See the press release here, as well as the helpful fact sheet that details the new features and services available from the site, which now meets accessibility requirements. Please note that the agency continues to provide… Continue Reading
Homeland Security Dept. Hires Privacy Chief
The Department of Homeland Security has hired a Chief Privacy Officer, attorney Nuala O’Connor Kelly. According to this government bio, she was formerly Chief Counsel for the Dept. of Commerce Technology Administration, and prior to that, she served as Vice President-Data Protection and Chief Privacy Officer for Emerging Technologies of the online media services company,… Continue Reading
NJ Updates Computer Crime Law
On April 14, New Jersey Governor James E.McGreevey signed S. 1355, which revises New Jersey’s computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes. See the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee statement for details of the bill, which “adds definitions of “Internet,” “personal identifying information,””alter, damage or destroy”, and “user of computer services” and makes other… Continue Reading
A Study on the Evolution of the Web
Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web, 1998 – 2002 “examines three key trends in the development of the public Web — size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage — based on data from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization Project , an initiative that explores fundamental questions about the Web and its… Continue Reading
New Digital Library on Homeland Security
According to Federal Computer Week, the Dudley Knox Library of the Naval Postgraduate School, at the request of the DOJ, will create and implement a digital library of resources on homeland security issues to be made available to “students at the school, employees of the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and likely other federal… Continue Reading
E-Gov Office Established at White House
Pursuant to the E-Government Act of 2002, this announcement from the White House this afternoon: “The Office of Electronic Government was officially launched today, signaling a permanent commitment to the President’s E-Government initiatives. Mark Forman, Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, who is heading the new office, is leading a live on-line discussion on the… Continue Reading
An Interview with Lawrence Lessig on Copyrights
From the Library of Economics and Liberty, this April 7 interview with Larry Lessig covers the Eldred copyright case and the recent Supreme Court decision, the Creative Commons copyright project, and discussion of the following questions: “Should the law treat intellectual and physical property differently? What are the key economic aspects of digital property? How… Continue Reading
