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Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters: Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security lettersHope springs eternal.Seriously...this is just what I needed today. ThanksRE: Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security lettersI know that every lawyer that I have contacted in regards to taking my casewere more than likely sent a "NSL" -- which discouraged...; Tags: security letter, Brewster Kahle, cookbook, security; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters: Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...; Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-08
An alternative to Google's book-scanning project: The Internet Archive received a $1 million grant from the New York-based Sloan Foundation to digitize the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, AP reports. The grant marks a challenge to Google, which has been working with universities to digitize...; Tags: Open Content Alliance, Google Inc., Libraries, Education Technology; Blog posts 2006-12-22
Brewster Kahle's modest mission: Archiving everything: Brewster Kahle's modest mission: Archiving everythingInternet ArchiveRight on ! Check out the archived concerts at:http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=%2Fmetadata%2FcreatorWhat for?Why to archive the internet when the whole internet is an archive?All your eggs in one basket?Anyone remember the old Star Trek episode, The Lights of Zetar? They had a thing called Memory Alpha,...; Tags: Business intelligence, Internet, Brewster Kahle, archiving; Discussion threads 2006-06-23

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Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise': Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" â€“ those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...; Tags: Larry Lessig, Work, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-21

News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares...; Tags: Security, Microsoft Office 2007, Xen, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Archive.org fights FBI demand for user info -- and wins: After a protracted battle with the FBI, the Internet Archive has won the retraction of what it says was an unconstitutional national security letter demanding personal information on an individual. Under the settlement with the FBI, Internet Archive Brewster Kahle as well as lawyers from the ACLU and EFF are...; Tags: FBI, NSL, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Is Google locking up historical works?: Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...; Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Georgia State sued over electronic "course packs": The New York Times is reporting that three publishers are suing Georgia State University in what appears to be the first suit of its kind. The publishers allege that electronic compilations of scanned materials posted on the school website for distribution to students violates "fair use" and requires licensing....; Tags: Student, Material, Internet, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-04-17
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RIAA boilerplate complaint thrown out: Few would have expected a Supreme Court decision limiting plaintiffs' ability to sue telcos for alleged conspiracy and price-fixing to result in damage to the Recording Industry Association of America. That is the result, however, of Bell Atlantic v. Twombley, a Supreme Court decision that held that proof that the...; Tags: RIAA, Bell Atlantic, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-09-11
Judge overturns $1.5 billion ruling against Microsoft: Judge overturns $1.5 billion ruling against MicrosoftIts a win for everyone.Thanks Microsoft!M$ bribes again!"U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster said in a 43-page order that the jury's damages could not stand because Microsoft had not violated one of the two patents."M$ is squashing innovation by stealing valuable IP from the inventors...; Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-08-07
Pipe any RSS mashup via your webpage: I have two further items of good news to report about Yahoo! Pipes for anyone intrigued by the RSS mashup tutorial I posted earlier this week. First of all, the Pipes team a few hours ago introduced a workaround to the date normalization problem that had been preventing...; Tags: Yahoo, Mashups, Development; Blog posts 2007-02-16
Google multi-billion dollar risks in 2007: GOOG passed the symbolic $500 mark on November 21, 2006 (see “GOOG @ $510: Do you buy or sell?”). One month later, GOOG closed 10% down off of its all-time high, but at still more than a 400% appreciation from its IPO price of $85 a share in 2004. Digital...; Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Goog, Google&rsquo, s, Eric Schmidt; Blog posts 2006-12-24
UMG sues MySpace in a no-lose proposition, draws Grokster judge: UMG sues MySpace in a no-lose proposition, draws Grokster judgeI so hate current copyright Laws ...They should all be rewritten especially the DMCS! Actually I think we need just get rid of that P.O.S! But hey we can’t buy a few congressmen and senators like they (RIA ETC.) Can, so...; Tags: Web servers, Grokster Ltd., Gonzales, MySpace, UMG; Discussion threads 2006-11-20
If Wikipedia gets $100 million, here's what they should spend it on: A week ago Sunday, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales put out this enticing sounding open letter asking Wikipedia users for recommendations about how the collaborative, free online encyclopedia might spend an um, maybe-not-so-hypothetical $100 million war chest to acquire the rights to digital works.OK, Jimbo.First you should, in conjunction with...; Tags: Wikipedia; Blog posts 2006-10-24
Election Troubles: The Anchorage Daily News reports about technical problems with new Diebold voting machines. From the article:Problems with Alaska’s new touchscreen voting machines slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts across the state. Election coordinator Lauri Wilson said several...; Tags: Implementation, Government projects; Blog posts 2006-08-28
'Google Library' to world: give us 'all books in all languages,' free of charge: Google proudly announced that it is helping “bookworms everywhere find gems in the libraries around the world” with a new Library Catalog Search feature in Google Book Search.Google continues to set its sights on the content of others in furtherance of its mission to “organize” all the world’s information.Google takes...; Tags: Google Inc.; Blog posts 2006-08-25
Diebold machines suffer modem glitches in AK election: Days before Alaska's primary election, Democrats were warning voters to stay away from the Diebold electronic voting machines. But US election officials poo-poohed the concerns. "Anyone should be allowed to vote on this equipment and have trust and confidence, and they should have, and I think they will have tomorrow,”...; Tags: Diebold Inc.; Blog posts 2006-08-24
Photos: Internet Archive's ambitious vision: Brewster Kahle and his crew at the Internet Archive are working to preserve just about everything.; Tags: vision, Internet Archive; Image galleries 2006-06-23