Edited by Michael Geist, In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, “…reviews international copyright norms, assesses dozens of specific Bill C-60 provisions, and identifies potential future copyright reform initiatives.” This book was published under a Creative Commons license, permitting legal downloads for personal use [Slaw.ca, and Connie Crosby]
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Daily Archives: October 3, 2005
FBI OIG Report Cites Significant Decrease in Criminal Investigations
The External Effects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Reprioritization Efforts (Redacted for Public Release), Audit Report 05-37, September 2005 (PDF) Continue Reading
Phishing Now Illegal in California
Signed into law on September 30, S.B. No. 355: This bill would enact the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005. The bill would make it unlawful for any person, through the Internet or other electronic means, to solicit, request, or take any action to induce another person to provide identifying information by representing itself to be a… Continue Reading
OSHA Database of Documents Lost Workday Injury and Illness Rates
From the Memory Hole: OSHA’s Lost Workday Injury and Illness Database – Injury/Illness Rates for Tens of Thousands of Companies Identified by Name. Data covers 1996-2002. Continue Reading
Economic Effects of Katrina
CBO – The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Update, September 29, 2005 (33 papges, PDF) Continue Reading
Bush Nominates Harriet E. Miers for Supreme Court
White House press release: Harriet E. Miers, Nominee as Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court The Hunt for the Record – As Activists Struggle to Define Nominee Miers, White House Allies Line Up to Defend Her Continue Reading
Open Content Alliance Launched With Support From Yahoo and Internet Archive
“The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!. The OCA will… Continue Reading
