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Qik Stream
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A crisis for Web preservation
June 21, 2004A crisis for Web preservation. By Florence Olsen. Federal Computer Week. June 21, 2004. The article mentions several different problems including fugitive or unknown information, known information that disappears from the web, possibility of using web harvesters to “capture publications,” information that is largely invisible to harvesters (the “deep web”), GPO’s own electronic archive, and [...]
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Doctorow speaks to Microsoft about DRM
June 18, 2004Microsoft Research DRM talk by Cory Doctorow. This is the text of a talk Cory gave to Microsoft’s Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004. Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and writes fiction. He is an excellent writer and understands technology as [...]
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Report on WIPO broadcast treaty
June 17, 2004A law unto themselves, by John Naughton Sunday June 13, 2004 The Observer. This article describes a draft treaty at a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting that could have world wide consequences. Experience over the last decade has shown us how established industries react when they are threatened by new technology. First they go into [...]
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Chronicle of Higher Education offers RSS Feeds
June 17, 2004The Chronicle: RSS Feeds. Feeds include Daily News, The Wired Campus, and job postings. Thanks to eFeeds by Gerry McKiernan!
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Strickland, Minow and Lipinski on USA PATRIOT Act
June 16, 2004LibraryLaw Blog: Strickland, Minow and Lipinski on USA PATRIOT Act
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Interesting note on testimony by Mary Beth Peters, the Register of Copyright
June 16, 2004LibraryLaw Blog: Peters on 108(h) 17 U.S.C. 108(h), essentially permits a nonprofit library, educational institution or archive to reproduce or distribute copies of a work, including in digital format, and to display or perform a work during the last twenty years of the copyright term as long as that work is not commercially available.
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League of Women Voters drops support of e-vote machines
June 16, 2004League of Women Voters drops support of e-vote machines By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press, USA Today, Posted 6/14/2004 7:25 PM. The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday after hundreds of angry members voiced concern that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers or [...]
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LAZ reaches 500!
June 14, 2004Hey everyone. This is LAZ’ 500th post! That must be some sort of milestone right? So let us know how we’re doing. Drop an email to Jim and/or James with your comments, ideas, complaints and diatribes (those’ll be filed accordingly ). Thanks for tuning in!
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Fair use of copyrighted works
June 14, 2004Issue Of The Week: June 14, 2004: Unlocking The Digital World. by Sarah Lai Stirland, National Journal’s Technology Daily (subscription required). An up-to-date overview of the players and issues and possible revisions to DMCA. Articles cited by this article include: Fair Use and Digital Rights Management: Preliminary Thoughts on the (Irreconcilable?) Tension between Them by [...]
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Time Magazine discusses blogs
June 14, 2004TIME.com: Meet Joe Blog — Jun. 21, 2004 This Time article is interesting main-stream coverage of the blog phenomenon. It grudgingly admits that blogs are an increasingly popular source of news for a growing number of people, but its headline tries to dismiss blogs with this subtitle: “they’re fast, funny and totally biased.” But the [...]
