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Daily Archives: October 3, 2003
FCC Launches New Site on Environmental and Historic Preservation
From the FCC’s new Environmental and Historic Preservation website: The FCC has specific responsibilities pursuant to the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and other related statutes to evaluate the impact of its actions on the quality of the human environment. NEPA requires agencies of the Federal Government to evaluate… Continue Reading
Senator Plans Legislation to Reduce File Swapping Fines
From dc.internet.com: “Sen. Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) has added copyright infringement penalties to his laundry list of complaints about the music industry’s litigation campaign against individual file swappers, telling reporters Thursday he will introduce legislation to reduce the current range of $750 to $150,000 fines per downloaded song.” Continue Reading
VeriSign Complies with ICANN Demand to Close Site Finder
VeriSign’s introduction of its Site Finder service on September 15 ignited a firestorm of controversy. Today ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey sent a letter to VeriSign’s Executive VP Russell Lewis stating: “VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4… Continue Reading
Report on Trusted Computing
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new report, Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk: “…a straightforward change to the plans of trusted computing vendors could leave the security benefits intact while ensuring that a PC owner’s will always trumps the wishes of those who’ve loaded software or data onto the PC. Continue Reading
New Report on DMCA
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Continue Reading
Introduction of Security and Freedom Ensured (SAFE) Act
From Sen. Russ Feingold’s press release: “…the Security and Freedom Ensured (SAFE) Act (S. 1701)…seeks to amend several particularly controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that permit the FBI to monitor law-abiding Americans without adequate judicial oversight. The SAFE Act reins in secret searches, curbs roving wiretaps, and imposes reasonable limits on FBI access… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC’s Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS – Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist FOIA Facts: Inside the… Continue Reading
