Internet Search Companies Could Face Fight on Ads: “Some of the biggest Internet search services (Google and Overture) could be setting the stage for a legal battle with companies that object to the way these sites are using their trademarks.” (thanks Donna) Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Entertainment Groups Appeal File Swapping Decision
From PCWorld: The RIAA, the MPAA and the NMPA “have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to overturn the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson” denying the entertainment groups’ request to shut-down music downloading services Grokster and Morpheus. For more details on the case, see my previous posting here.… Continue Reading
Virulent E-Mail Virus Strikes and Spreads
Today I was spammed several hundred times, causing me to enable the overdrive level of my spam blocker. This is a first for me, but I know that unfortunately I was not alone, and sure hope tomorrow will be a quieter day in the e-mail realm. For my previous postings on spam, click here. Continue Reading
Website That Monitors Campaign 2004 Spam
Spam and political campaigns are developing a synergy, to which the growing number us who have been on the receiving end, through no effort on our part, can attest. So I was quite interested when I learned about a new website, Political Spam. This independently operated site, from Richard Paul Welty, was launched in early… Continue Reading
State & Local Gov’t Operating Without Critical Homeland Security Info
Press release from the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, announcing a new report: “State and local homeland security officials the first responders and preventers in the war on terror at home have not yet been fully integrated into the Bush Administrations national strategy on homeland security and continue to operate without critical information… Continue Reading
Libraries and Fair Use
From Library Journal (reg. req’d): Fair Use Under Fire – ALA’s copyright expert gives her take on the challenges digital rights management presents for end users – and librarians: “In the digital realm, DRM technologies are changing the ways in which information is accessed and experienced, and they are undermining fair use. If content providers’… Continue Reading
Digital Records Preservation
The Cost to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records in Perpetuity: Comparing Costs across Cost Models and Cost Frameworks: “This paper explores issues of cost modeling and proposes a possible methodology to evaluate costing frameworks and models to preserve authentic electronic records. The methodology could be adapted by institutions interested in the costs of the preservation strategy… Continue Reading
Sen. Coleman Releases RIAA Response To File Sharing Inquiry
From the August 18 press release: “Acknowledging the recording industrys cooperation in his inquiry into its wide-ranging crackdown on illegal file-sharing, Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released the Recording Industry Association of America’s response to his request for subpoenas and other documents related to his concerns that the industry… Continue Reading
There Are Alternatives to Google
This article is reprinted from the August 18 WSJ: Google Is Most Popular Search Site, But Others Sometimes Do It Better. Has Teoma surpassed Google’s technology? Give it a try and make your own determination. Continue Reading
Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Resources
A CIPA Toolkit – Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the Supreme Court’s June ruling that upheld the filtering requirement in the Children’s Internet Protection Act. (reg. req’d) Continue Reading
IRS Appoints New Privacy Officer
According to FCW.com, Maya Bernstein is the new “head of the office in charge of agency (IRS) policies for protecting taxpayers’ personal information an increasingly important job as data is handled by more electronic systems in the agency’s modernization.” Continue Reading
Controversy Accompanies Draft VICTORY Act Legislation
The National Consumer Privacy Coalition Group obtained a draft of the VICTORY Act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003), which has been circulated on Capitol Hill, but a copy of which I have yet to find posted on the web (please contact me if you have a link). This article indicates that… Continue Reading
