“The Internet, of course, is the maze of phone and cable lines, satellites, and network cables that interconnect computers around the world. The Web is the name given to anything on the Internet that can be accessed using a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL.” [Link]
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Daily Archives: August 13, 2003
Google Adds Web Calculator
Google Web Search Features – Calculator: “To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you’d like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units… Continue Reading
New Study Addresses Rights of Digital Copyright Holders and Consumers
GartnerG2 and The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School released a study, Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World (46 pages, pdf), which addresses: “the issues surrounding the current digital media ecosystem, including the legal and regulatory developments regarding copyright and related intellectual property issues; business models upset by digital… Continue Reading
DOJ Appeals COPA Decision to Supreme Court
A follow-up to my March 7 posting: the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was ruled unconstitutional for a second time by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision ACLU v. John Ashcroft, no. 19-1324, filed March 6. Arguing that requiring net filters in public libraries is not sufficient, Solicitor General Theodore Olson filed… Continue Reading
Opposition to EU IP Directive
From European Digital Rights, an association of privacy and civil rights organizations in Europe: CODE Letter urging rejection of Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights. IP Justice White Paper on Proposed European Union IP Enforcement Directive Continue Reading
Recent Patriot Act Lawsuits
Watching the Watchers – First two lawsuits challenging the Patriot Act likely aren’t the last. For links to the first case referenced in the above article, see my July 30 posting, Lawsuit on Patriot Act. A synopsis of the second lawsuit, Humanitarian Law Project, et al. v. Ashcroft, is provided by the Center for Constitutional… Continue Reading
