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Treaty to restrict access to public domain?
November 7, 2003Treaty casts shadow on Webcast rights | CNET News.com By Declan McCullagh, November 6, 2003. A United Nations committee on Wednesday approved the world’s first Webcasting treaty, which has drawn criticism that it limits the use of works that are in the public domain.
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Another Government Web Page Scrubbed
November 6, 2003Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Deep-Sixing History November 04, 2003. Gillmor points out that the U.S. Agency for International Development removed from its website an interview from April, in which the agency’s administrator said that the American financial share of rebuilding Iraq would be only $1.7 billion. Gillmor goes into some detail, documenting [...]
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Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle?
November 6, 2003CNET News.com November 5, 2003, By Declan McCullagh. Analysis of FCC decision on the broadcast flag.
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RFID: Technology doesnÕt invade privacy. People who use and misuse technology invade privacy
November 6, 2003Government Computer News (GCN) 10/27/03; Vol. 22 No. 31 “Info.Policy: Tag! Your privacyÕs it” By Robert Gellman. More about RFID (radio-frequency identification) which stores information on a tiny tag that can be read remotely via radio signals.
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Microsoft and cotton: WhatÕs the link?
November 6, 2003Government Computer News (GCN) 0/27/03; Vol. 22 No. 31 “Microsoft and cotton: WhatÕs the link?” By William Jackson. The prevalence of a single software brand leaves too many systems open to the same worms, viruses and other exploits, the report concluded. Diversifying with a healthy dose of Apple Mac OS, Linux and open-source applications would [...]
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Blog about Blogs in Government
November 6, 2003RSS in Government This is a blog with news about how RSS is being used in federal, state, and local government.
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Free Speech Groups Support Patriot Act Challenge
November 6, 2003Press Release. November 3, 2003. Free speech groups representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, writers and others today filed a brief that strongly supports a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the provision of the USA Patriot Act that gives the FBI virtually unlimited access to personal, organization and business records, including bookstore and library records.
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Two more about the “Broadcast Flag”
November 6, 2003Two more items about the FCC rule on the broadcast flag: The Register “FCC locks down US TV” By Andrew Orlowski, November 6, 2003. ‘Somewhat disingenuously, the FCC added an explanation that claims “the flag does not restrict copying in any way.” Which is only literally true: it’s an enabling technology in the way that [...]
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FCC Approves The “Broadcast Flag”
November 5, 2003FCC Cracks Down on Piracy By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, page C3, November 5, 2003. “Regulators approve technology to limit the illegal distribution of digital TV shows on the Internet.” “The FCC has decided that the way to get Americans to adopt digital TV is to make it cost more and [...]
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DRM or The Right to Read?
November 4, 2003The Right to Read – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF), by Richard Stallman. This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2). It is a “Dystopian Short Story” and is as relevant or more so than when it first appeared. This copy includes a note [...]