Below I have posted part of an email message sent to law-lib late this evening by one of our colleagues, Amy Hale-Janeke:
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Daily Archives: October 27, 2003
Clash of Financial Privacy Laws
California’s pioneering Financial Information Privacy Act SB 1, signed by Gov. Gray Davis on August 27, is in serious jeopardy of being preempted by amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Congress Is Close to Eliminating a Privacy Law Privacy bill may curtail safeguards in state law Continue Reading
White House Refuses Doc. Request for 9-11 Investigation
AP reports that the White House has failed to cooperate with the bi-partisan commission investigating the 9-11 attacks. This action takes the form of refusing to provide essential documents to the commission despite the threat of a subpoena. The panel is facing a May 27, 2004 deadline to complete its work. According to an October… Continue Reading
USPS Wants to Institute Intelligent Mail
Post Office Wants to ID the Mail: “A small change in labeling requirements for bulk mailings announced Oct. 21 requires bulk mailers to identify themselves on the outside of the envelope with a valid address. This marks the first step in the Postal Service’s desire to create “intelligent mail.” See Embracing the Future: Making the… Continue Reading
Controversy Concerning Amazon’s Inside the Book Service
This link is to the text of an email sent by the Author’s Guild to its 8,000 plus members, voicing concerns about Amazon’s new Search Inside the Book database: The Guild questions whether proper permissions were received from the authors of the 120,000 books in Amazon’s database. In addition, the organization has deteremined that it… Continue Reading
New GAO Report Favors Competition in Cable Market
Telecommunications: Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry. GAO-04-8, October 24. Highlights. “Competition leads to lower cable rates and improved quality. Competition from a wide-based company is limited to a very few markets. However, where available, cable rates are substantially lower (by 15 percent) than in markets without this competition.” Continue Reading
MIT Students Devise Innovative Music Sharing System Using Cable TV
Today the New York Times reports on two students MIT students who, with the backing of their university, have devised a music sharing system called the Libraries Access to Music Project (LAMP), which they contend will eliminate the contentious copyright issues currently associated with file sharing on campuses nationwide. Their work is financed by Microsoft,… Continue Reading
