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31 Oct 2005
The Google Print suit is really a fairly arcane technical disagreement
about the limits of fair use dressed up in apocalyptic language. One
reason it's dressed up is that's how the Authors Guild works (we're
authors, after all), and the other is that anything involving Google
might involve lots of money.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/googleprint.html
30 Oct 2005
Google has a new service called
Google Print for Libraries.
They've made a deal with five
large libraries to scan in most of their books to create an index
along the lines of Google's web index.
Predictably, the Authors' Guild has
filed a suit
to try to make them stop.
There's a variety of issues involved, some of which I'll try to address in
subsequent messages, but once you cut through the bombast, the crux of the issue
is that they think they deserve to be paid.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/tollbooth.html
Last week the DMA
announced
with considerable fanfare that their members
should all use e-mail authentication.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/dmaauth.html
25 Oct 2005
A small but intriguing paragraph in the
VeriSign settlement says that ICANN gets to maintain the root zone. I
thought they did now, but when I look at the copies of the root zone
I download from Verisign's FTP server, I see that Verisign does,
following advice from ICANN.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/verisignroot.html
A press
release on the ICANN web site says that ICANN and Verisign have
agreed to settle all pending lawsuits, and there's a new .COM
agreement, all tentative but if history is any guide, nothing short of
DOC action is going to stop it.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/verisignsettlement.html
08 Oct 2005
Two weeks ago California enacted a new SB 97, a new version of the 2003
spam law that was overridden by CAN SPAM before it went into effect.
Both spam bills and the phishing bills were introducted by Sen. Kevin
Murray, one of a handful of state legislators with an interest in
online commerce.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/calspampra.html
Last week the governor signed into law SB 355, the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005.
First, it specifically makes phishing illegal:
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/civilphish.html
01 Oct 2005
Courts and lawyers have always sent huge amounts of routine but important
correspondence by paper mail and later by fax.
In recent years, the courts have been switching to e-mail, which saves
both a lot of time and a lot of paper.
But what happens when a lawyer never gets the e-mail that the court sent?
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/barge.html
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