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Inducing Infringment of Copyrights Act
July 9, 2004There’s an interesting discussion of the “Inducing Infringment of Copyrights Act” over at The Importance of…, a blog by Ernest Miller. Senate Bill 2560 was introduced by Senator Orin Hatch on June 22, 2004. Strangely enough, the cosponsors are Leahy, Frist, Daschle, Graham of South Carolina, and Boxer. Strange bedfellows to say the least. Read [...]
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Hearing on E-voting
July 9, 2004House Cmte. Hearing on Electronic Voting Security [requires RealOne Player] The House Administration Committee holds this hearing on the security of electronic voting systems. 11:00 AM. 7/7/2004: WASHINGTON, DC. 3 hours. Witnesses addressing the issues of “direct-recording electronic” (DRE) voting machines include Britain J. Williams, professor emeritus of computer science and IT at Kenesaw State [...]
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White House moves to protect USAPA
July 8, 2004White House Moves to Protect Right to Spy on Readers The White House has gone to preventive war — to protect the US government’s newly-acquired right to spy on readers as part of counterterrorism investigations, promising to veto a multibillion-dollar spending bill if these powers are curtailed.
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Reading at Risk
July 8, 2004Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey National Endowment for the Arts, July 8, 2004. (press release) Literary reading is in dramatic decline with fewer than half of American adults now reading literature, according to a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) survey released today. Reading at Risk: A [...]
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When silence is insidious
July 6, 2004Ashcroft Attempting to Silence Former FBI Translator In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Edmonds case be retroactively classified, even basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of Justice also invoked the seldom-used [...]
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FCC rules shot down by Appeals court
July 6, 2004AlterNet: Media Reformers Look Beyond Philadelphia The June 24 federal appeals court decision against the FCC loosening of media-ownership rules marks a win for millions of Americans concerned about consolidation of media outlets, but the campaign against big media is far from over, advocates say. This isn’t the end, however. The FCC rules were sent [...]
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Are you a Disruptive Technology?
July 5, 2004Disruptive? Who You Calling Disruptive? By Marydee Ojala, Online, Vol. 28 No. 4 Ñ July/August 2004. In this short article, Ojala discusses Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. She notes that some technologies, such as the printing press and the Internet, are disruptive and require a “complete rethinking of an existing business model.” These, she [...]
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Center for Democracy and technology
July 3, 2004Drum roll please… Are you ready for the featured blog for July? Here it is: The Center for Democracy and Technology The CDT “works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications [...]
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An Academic Look at Blogs
July 3, 2004Into the Blogosphere, sponsored by the University of Minnesota libraries, provides an academic look at blogs with a distinuguinquished group of authors and editors. This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project [...]
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Disney sued for copyright violation
July 3, 2004Lion takes on Mouse in copyright row by Rory Carroll in Johannesburg Saturday July 3, 2004 The Guardian Lawyers for the family of Solomon Linda, a migrant Zulu worker whose 1939 composition formed the basis for Wimoweh and The Lion Sleeps Tonight, announced the first of what are promised to be many lawsuits against the [...]