Agenda, last updated April 29, 2003 (pdf) Panelist Biographies (pdf) FTC SPAM EMAIL Website (This website has information about the Federal Trade Commissions recent law enforcement actions against deceptive commercial email and spammers who dont honor their “remove me” claims) Educational Materials from the Conference: You’ve Got Spam: How to “Can” Unwanted Emails (pdf) Email… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2003
Students Settle Music Copyright Infringement Cases
The recording industry agreed to settlements of the copyright infringement lawsuits, filed separately against four college students on April 3, in federal courts in New York, Michigan and New Jersey. According to AP, the fines are as follows: “Princeton University student Daniel Peng and Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt each agreed to pay $15,000 in… Continue Reading
KM Basics
Andrew Adkins, director of the Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida, is the author of Knowledge Management: Simple Concept, Difficult Reality (reg req’d). He describes what he terms the “big six” pieces of KM software as well as recommended guidelines to launch and implement a successful KM program. Continue Reading
New Jersey Institute of Technology Bans File Sharing
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the New Jersey Institute of Technology “has banned the use of file-sharing programs on the institute’s network.” Efforts to educate the community about the consequences of using P2P applications did not result in changes in behavior, according to the Dean of Students. Is this the beginning of a… Continue Reading
Researching Domain Name Ownership
WHO WAS, WHOIS, AND WHO WILL BE: Domain Name Ownership Research Tools by Mark Goldstein. Continue Reading
Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Database
The Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Markle Foundation have announced the launch of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Database, which “provides Internet users worldwide with free access to precedents regarding disputes over Web addresses, giving parties the tools necessary to better prepare for Web-based cases than ever before. The… Continue Reading
Domestic Surveillance Report for 2002
Via the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, news that Attorney General Ashcroft has submitted a report “pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, Title 50, United States Code, Section 1807, as amended,” as acknowledged in this letter. The letter states, “1228 applications were made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for electronic surveillance… Continue Reading
More on Blogs and Corporate Implementation
Why Blogs Haven’t Stormed the Business World is a commentary on the inherent impediments to implementing enterprise-wide blogging tools due to issues such as application interoperability, the volume of data involved, and the hierarchy used for information storage. Continue Reading
IP Expert Comments on Patriot Act and DMCA
From Eyeteeth, this interview with professor and author Siva Vaidhyanathan, whose books include The Anarchist in the Library, which details the impact of peer-to-peer networks on the dissemination of information, and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. His comments about libraries and the Patriot Act include the following:… Continue Reading
States vs. Feds Over Anti-Spam Legislation
The majority of states attorneys general expressed their opposition to federal anti-spam legislation during the course of the FTC’s three-day Spam Forum currently underway in Washington, D.C. “The states are concerned because both proposals (on the federal level – the CAN SPAM Act and the REDUCE Spam Act) would supersede any state laws, even if… Continue Reading
Free Links No Longer Available From UPI
This statement now appears on the United Press International (UPI) site: “Thank you for coming to the UPI Web site. With the exception of selected articles, our content is no longer available for public view. For subscription inquiries, please contact the UPI sales staff.” Continue Reading
RIAA Uses IM to Send Anti-Piracy Warning
The RIAA launched yet another new anti-piracy campaign, this time using instant messaging (IM), to communicate with millions of individual users it has identified as sharing music files using KaZaA and Grokster. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the target group, college students, will be contacted in an “educational outreach effort” which also includes… Continue Reading
