Efficient Process or “Chilling Effects”? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Summary Report, Jennifer M. Urban, Director, Intellectual Property Clinic, University of Southern California and Laura Quilter, Non-Resident Fellow, Samuelson Clinic, University of California, Berkeley. [Links and Law] Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2006
Scholars Evaluate Government Regulation of Net From Global Perspective
National boundaries have survived in the virtual worldand allowed national laws to exert control over the Internet. Continue Reading
Searchable Database of CPT and HCPCS Medical Codes
From askSam: “CPT and HCPCS Medical Codes, Free Searchable Version: This database contains a complete listing of CPT codes (Current Procedural Terminology) and HCPCS codes (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System). This database is fully searchable by code, description, type or category.” Continue Reading
Pentagon Roadmap to Propaganda Report Obtained Under FOIA
National Security Archive: “A secret Pentagon “roadmap: on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for “boundaries” between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not “targeted,” any leakage of… Continue Reading
Date Set for DOJ v. Google Hearing
Declan McCullagh reported that Judge James Ware, US District Court, Northern District of California, has calendered Gonzales v. Google, Inc. for February 27, 2006. Continue Reading
Judiciary Cmte. Democrats Request Docs. on Domestic Surveillance Prior to Hearing
Press release: “The Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking information relating to the Bush Administration’s domestic spying program in preparation for the panels Feb. 6 hearing on the program’s legality. The senators are seeking documents and correspondence from the days immediately following the Sept.… Continue Reading
Analysis of Abramoff Money Trail Traces Majority of Contributions to One Party
Daily Prospect: “A new and extensive analysis of campaign donations from all of Jack Abramoffs tribal clients, done by a nonpartisan research firm, shows that a great majority of contributions made by those clients went to Republicans. The analysis undercuts the claim that Abramoff directed sums to Democrats at anywhere near the same rate.” [via… Continue Reading
Blogging Slowly Makes Headway on the Hill
Congress catching on to the value of blogs Continue Reading
Senators Call for Testimony on Domestic Spying From Past and Current Officials
Additional information related to Judiciary Chair Sends Questions to AG On Domestic Spying: Press release: “U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Russ Feingold sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter urging him to call on more current and former high level Bush Administration officials including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Deputy Attorneys General… Continue Reading
CBO Projects $337B Deficit in 2006
The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2007 to 2016 , January 2006 (196 pages, PDF) Related documents: Historical Budget Data, 1962-2005 (14 pages, PDF) Glossary of Budgetary and Economic Terms (15 pages, PDF) Summary of today’s CBO report prepared by the House Budget Committee Democratic staff (12 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
ChoicePoint Settles With FTC Over Data Security Breach
FTC press release: “Consumer data broker ChoicePoint, Inc., which last year acknowledged that the personal financial records of more than 163,000 consumers in its database had been compromised, will pay $10 million in civil penalties and $5 million in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumers’… Continue Reading
White Paper Focuses on Balancing Security Issues With Global Competitiveness
American Association of Universities: National Defense Education and Innovation Initiative (30 pages, PDF), Meeting America’s Economic and Security Issues in the 21st Century, January 2006. Related bibliography: Competitiveness, Innovation, S&E Workforce, and STEM Education – Major Reports, Books and Activities Related legislation: 4 Senators Introduce Bipartisan PACE Act To Boost U.S. Competitiveness in Science and… Continue Reading
