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Is File Sharing a Danger to Privacy?
September 18, 2003An interesting exchange on issues of file sharing, copyright, and privacy is in the Sept. 12, 2003 issue of Salon. Scott Matthews, who is the developer of Andromeda, software that turns collections of music files into streaming Web sites, writes that “Copying isn’t cool”, and Jason Schultz, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, [...]
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Ashcroft speaks about USA PATRIOT
September 18, 2003Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Ashcroft “The Proven Tactics in the Fight against Crime” Washington, D.C. September 15th, 2003.
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Should Microsoft be liable for bugs?
September 18, 2003Should Microsoft be liable for bugs? by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Friday, September 12, 2003. End User License Agreements (EULAs) for software not only limit what we can do and how we can use software; they also greatly limit the producer’s liability. A defect is found in one of the world’s most popular products. Less [...]
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New Blog service for PhD students
September 16, 2003PhDweblogs PhDweblogs.net is a non-profit initiative to bring together PhD students’ weblogs from all around the world.
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Journal editorial board jumps ship
September 11, 2003The Chronicle: 7/4/2003: Editor of ‘Labor History’ Quits, and Dozens Join Him; Oxford Press Hires Editor From Princeton. This happened in July, but it just now sifted down to me from the newsletter of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Evidently, the entire editorial board walked out. “Labor: Studies in Working Class History [...]
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Census Budget Cuts
September 9, 2003“Preliminary information suggests that the Senate bill cuts funds mainly from 2010 census planning activities.” This from Census News Brief, prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, a Policy and Legislative Consultant in Washington, Copies of the Brief are available here in pdf and text.
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Sued by the music industry
September 9, 2003CNN.com – Will you be sued by the music industry? – Aug. 19, 2003
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Garage door openers and the DMCA
September 9, 2003The Register. Yes you heard right. A garage door transmitter violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Open and shut case?!
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PTO’s open-source stance
September 8, 2003Library Groups Urge Patent & Trademark Office To Rethink ‘Open Source’ Stance [password/proxy server required if off-campus]. Seems that the PTO doesn’t understand the open-source issue very well. “The difference is not whether we rely on copyright but for what purpose,” Mogelin said. Proprietary software uses copyright to seek profits, he said, but “we use [...]