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- Google supports bill to ensure orphan works available to competitors
- oogle welcomes legislation that would expand the rights it would obtain under the Google Books Settlement to all players, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers announced at the start of committee hearings on the settlement. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)
- Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)Then I guess we will seejust how secure/insecure these Google-ified email programs will be.Would people be a bit nervous if they realized that staffers might use unsecured, off-site servers (hotmail, gmail, ect) to conduct secure level business?RE: Will Obama have a laptop?...
- Tags: Now Let, Obama, No., U.S. Senate, e-mail, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision
- It's becoming clear that the Atlantic v. Howell decision is a major big deal in the RIAA lawsuit landscape, as the heavy hitters are starting to comment. William Patry just published a seven-volume treatise on copyright law, Patry on Copyright (yours for just over $1,500). He's also...
- Tags: Copyright Law, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- YouTube hit OK Go testifies for neutrality
- Free Press is publicizing the appearance of OK Go, apparently a YouTube musical phenom, at a net neutrality hearing at the House Judiciary Committee. "If people wonder whether the music industry will benefit from Net Neutrality they can look no further than...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, YouTube Inc., Net Neutrality, Free Press, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- 'Tis the season for common sense copyright
- 'Tis the season for common sense copyrightIn CanadaWe actually have copyright reform going on right. WOW is all I can say but looks like it's going to get dropped from the table before Christmas and with looming election in the spring I doubt it will occur. On another note there...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Micro$ux, copyright reform, copyright law
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcos
- Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcosSomeday......he mused wistfullyThey don't getit do they? Our constitunional rights was violated!!! Its nothing more then a game to all our elected officals. The way to remendy this is reelect a different representive each term so no one is is paid a retirement/insurance/...
- Tags: Robots, Telecom & Utilities, immunity, FISA Court, Judiciary Committee
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcos
- The issue of immunity for telecommunications companies who cooperate with warrantless wiretaps is at the center of a looming showdown in Congress. Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 10-9 a version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that doesn't include immunity, the New York Times reports. Also Thursday night,...
- Tags: Immunity, U.S. Senate, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- White House shared docs in exchange for telecom immunity
- White House shared docs in exchange for telecom immunityThe way I see it......if a government lawyer drafts an opinion which is acted on by the officials he is advising and is subsequently challenged, he's the one who should have to defend it in court or wherever else.I figure it's the...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecom immunity, White House, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2007-10-25
- Mukasey says that war powers may allow for warrantless wiretaps
- The love feast for attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey came to an abrupt halt Thursday, as the nominee suggested that the president's executive powers are pretty darn expansive, after all. Mukasey said that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his...
- Tags: President, Law, Mukasey, Workforce Management, Human Resources, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- The state of play in patent reform
- This week's patent suit against Linux should result in more attention to the issue of patent reform, so what are the prospects? Not bad. If my two beats can find a compromise. The House passed H.R 1908 last month, 220-175, and the Senate Judiciary...
- Tags: Bill, Dana Blankenhorn, Patent
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
- Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping
- The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind†of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants.Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of...
- Tags: Congress, Intelligence, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- RIAA says yes, Congress says probably, colleges say no
- Representatives from the movie and media industries met with university officials in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the growing problem of piracy on college campuses. While colleges have generally taken a hands-off approach, industry executives and lawmakers they are lobbying are pushing hard for major restrictions to file sharing on...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Anti-Real ID rebellion comes to the Senate
- The debate rages on over citizen privacy rights versus government standards for drivers licenses, reports the Washington Post. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) stood his ground over protecting citizen privacy by stating that he would support a repeal of the RealID Act, a 2005 law that...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Proposed federal shield for reporters now includes bloggers
- A bill to create a federal reporters shield was amended recently to include coverage for bloggers, Ars Technica reports. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines "journalism" to focus more on the function of the job: "the gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing,...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Now Congress is getting in on the act
- Ars technica highlighted recent actions by Congress, members of which are now sending letters to the RIAAs "most wanted" universities, to compel schools to deal aggressively with piracy. As the article noted:House Judiciary Committee member Lamar Smith (R-TX) made a veiled threat to universities that do not provide satisfactory...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Senate subpoenas Gonzales' emails with Rove
- Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales emails today, demanding all email correspondence between him and Karl Rove related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, The Washington Post reports. "It is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the committees inquiry have not been produced," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...
- Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- NJ bill would limit electronic meetings of officials
- A bill to limit emails and phone calls among elected New Jersey officials outside public meetings has been resurrected after an updated proposal was defeated, reports the Union-Leader. House Bill 377 looks pretty much like the old bill that was originally voted down. It classifies as a public record...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- YouTube: Why Google is running scared
- Google’s trademark Googley super confidence is no where to be seen in its in-house litigation counsel’s blustery quid pro quo Washington Post retort to Viacom general counsel Michael Fricklas’s prior op-ed.While defiant, Michael Kwun is pithy, to a fault. It is ironic that his indignant “reply” to Viacom reads more...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Datamining program violated privacy laws
- Datamining program violated privacy lawsBIG DEALS"enate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) has introduced bipartisan legislation to require the White House to report more fully to Congress on datamining programs."BIG DEAL! Legislation requiring the White House to report to Congress on datamining is a total waste of time and...
- Tags: Business intelligence, Regulations, U.S. Congress, data mining, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, USA PATRIOT Act
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
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