This National Law Journal article, Fretting over U.S. data collection, reviews data privacy concerns associated with the work of the Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) program in light of the release on May 20 of the agency’s report to Congress. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2003
Profile of Google In-House Counsel
The National Law Journal profiled Google’s general counsel and vice president for corporate development, David Drummond. Continue Reading
Law Firm Technology Trends
Andrew Zangrilli’s new article in Modern Practice predicts the following trends for 2003 in law firm technology development: “1) more features and functionality added to existing technology; 2) unifying and consolidating disparate systems; and 3) more legal self-service applications.” Continue Reading
U.S. Identified As Source of Most Global Cybercrime
According this press release from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), “More than sixty percent of the world’s cybercrime originates in the US, with hacking and fraud at the top of the offences.” The report itself is not available online, but a copy may be requested from Steven Matz at ICC Commercial Crime Services. Continue Reading
Online Petition On Copyright Term Extension Act
From the Eldred Act Website: Today we launched a petition to urge Members of the US Congress to support our proposed legislation to reclaim the public domain.” Continue Reading
Law School Course on Spam
Professor David E. Sorkin, of The John Marshall Law School Center for Information Technology & Privacy Law, will teach a seminar this summer on the Regulation of Spam and Email Marketing. This is apparently the first such law school course to focus on unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). Continue Reading
Dastar Decision, Public Domain and Copyright
From the American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “The U.S. Supreme Court on June 2 issued its opinion in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. (case no. 02-428), in which ALA participated as a “friend of the court” in support of Dastar Corporation. The Court has ruled unanimously 8-0 (Justice Breyer did not… Continue Reading
New Search Engine: Can it Challenge Google?
The Register reviews the pros and cons of Turbo10.com, still in beta, which unfortunately seems to have crashed due to the traffic generated by this new-found recognition? Not an auspicious start, but check-in on the site when it reappears, as one of the major incentives to do so is its focus on searching the invisible… Continue Reading
E-Books Still Struggle To Gain Market
E-Books Catch On, but Only for Core Fans So Far is yet another example of similarly titled articles over the years on how e-book have not (and will not) lead to the replacement of hard copy texts in either the professional or consumer markets. Continue Reading
More Resources on Blogs, Wikis and KM
See What makes a weblog a weblog?, a succinct and informative article on the topic, as well as Blogs, Wikis and Knowledge Building, which compares and contrasts two applications whose audiences and authors are steadily expanding. In addition, Marking Out The Borders of a Weblog adds context and more definition to the discussion by referencing… Continue Reading
Proposed Changes to Federal Acquisition Regs (FAR)
Proposed rules changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which constitute a Part 27 rewrite, were published in this May 28 Federal Register notice (pdf), and intend to “clarify, streamline, and update guidance and clauses on patent, data, and copyrights to provide a more logical presenation of this complex material.” Also see the government’s acquisition… Continue Reading
California Real Property Records to Go Online
California Assembly Bill 578, the Electronic Recording Delivery System Act of 2003, would “authorize a county recorder, upon approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and system certification by the Attorney General, to establish an electronic recording delivery system for the delivery and recording of digitized electronic records affecting the right, title, or interest… Continue Reading
