Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Fw:[DOWNLOADTHIS] Cyber Law Newsletter with Andrew Zangrilli, Esq. - Tue., May 14, 2002
Peter. (01)
Handy newsletter! Some comments: (02)
1. Creative Commons item is in Fleabyte (www.fleabyte.org/index.html#fo-50
I am in touch with the organization. (03)
2. I am aware of the "deep-linking case" and always concerned about the way
we handle things in Fleabyte. I don't think we act against interest of
sources - actually quite the contrary in most cases. Take a look at our
article "Fleabyte, Homer, plagiarism and copyright,"
www.fleabyte.org/flb-19.html and the reference to the copyright website. (04)
3. Reference also to Jack's post, Budapest Open Access Initiative and on the
site mentioned reference to articles by Sam Vaknim:
"Copyright and Scholarship, part1"
< http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-015414-4119r >
and "Copyright and Scholarship, part 2"
< http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-020541-2918r > (05)
The site and these aricles deal with academics' papers, but I feel that what
is said here also applies to articles about public affairs and environment,
etc written for the general public in their role as citizens. They too need
access to the right materials for arriving at better judgments. (06)
Interesting is Soros's "friendly approach" toward commercial publishers,
which is touch on by Vaknim. In my mind this kind of links up with John
Deneen's recent post in which he referred to Doug's comments in Singapore
that societal change should be gradual rather than in big, unsettling
bursts. (07)
Actually, I would like to find someone willing to dig a bit into these above
issues and do an essay on the stuff for Fleabyte. (08)
Henry (09)
Peter Jones wrote: (010)
> Plenty of matter relating to digital intellectual property rights below.
> And a case concerning deep linking that could kill purple numbered
> paragraph linking.
> --
> Peter
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> > A Weekly Newsletter Covering Law and the Internet
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> > May 14, 2002
> > Issue # 85
> >
> > IN THIS ISSUE:
> >
> > * NEW AND NOTEWORTHY
> > Court Upholds Part Of Web Smut Law
> > Judge Lets Net Copyright Case Proceed
> > Sonicblue Balks At Court Order
> > Microsoft Presents Last Witness
> > Copies Of 'Star Wars' Sequel Online
> > Another Run To A Deep-Link Suit
> >
> > * INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
> > Name System For Internet Shuts Down
> >
> > * HACKER NATION
> > MSN Messenger Vulnerable to Hackers
> > Kansas Teen Sentenced After Hackings
> > Microsoft: Info Could Aid Hackers
> > Vulnerability Is Discovered In Security For Smart Cards
> >
> > * WEB TRENDS
> > A New Direction For Intellectual Property
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> > Ashcroft v. Amer. Civil Liberties Union
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> > COURT UPHOLDS PART OF WEB SMUT LAW
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> > The Supreme Court partly upheld a law intended to shield children from
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> > JUDGE LETS NET COPYRIGHT CASE PROCEED
> > Associated Press
> >
> > A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the first criminal case under the
> > Digital Millennium Copyright Act can proceed to trial, dismissing
> claims
> > that the 1998 law is unconstitutional. Attorneys for ElcomSoft Co.
> Ltd.
> > of Russia had called the law overly broad and vague and asked that
> > charges be dropped against the company, which sold a program that
> > circumvented copyright protections in electronic book software made by
> > Adobe Systems Inc. Such programs are legal in Russia but banned by the
> > Digital Millennium Copyright Act. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald M.
> > Whyte ruled that the law contains vital restrictions for the digital
> age
> > and does not, as its opponents suggest, eliminate the traditional
> notion
> > of "fair use" for consumers found in copyright law.
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> > SONICBLUE BALKS AT COURT ORDER
> > Wired
> >
> > Sonicblue Inc. moved on Monday to overturn a court order for it to spy
> > on users of its digital recording devices and share detailed viewing
> > data with major studios and television networks, saying the order
> would
> > violate privacy rights. Santa Clara-based Sonicblue called the May 2
> > order from Central District Court Magistrate Charles Eick
> "breathtaking
> > and unprecedented" and said the directive to track what television
> > viewers watch "violates consumers' privacy rights, including those
> > guaranteed by the First and Fourth Amendments." The plaintiffs in the
> > case, including film studios Paramount, Universal, The Walt Disney Co.
> > and Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, as well as TV networks CBS, ABC and NBC,
> have
> > argued they need the data, including details on what commercials
> viewers
> > skip and what files they transfer across the Internet, to build their
> > copyright infringement case against Sonicblue.
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52498,00.html
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> > MICROSOFT PRESENTS LAST WITNESS
> > Associated Press
> >
> > Microsoft on Friday finished with its final witness in its antitrust
> > trial, and one of its lead attorneys said the software maker had
> proven
> > that tougher penalties sought by nine states were "draconian and
> > unfair." An attorney for the states, Tom Greene, countered that the
> > company was trying to scare U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
> > with arguments that forcing changes to the flagship Windows software
> > would hurt computer users and the industry as a whole.
> >
> > http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/5-13-2002/20020513050003_06.html
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> > COPIES OF 'STAR WARS' SEQUEL ONLINE
> > Associated Press
> >
> > A week before its scheduled release, illegal copies of "Star Wars:
> > Episode II - Attack of the Clones" are already appearing on the
> > Internet. One copy of the movie making the rounds online appears to
> have
> > been recorded at a private showing, using a tripod-mounted digital
> > camcorder pointed at the screen, the Los Angeles Times reported
> Friday.
> > Another copy apparently used a more sophisticated version of the same
> > technique. Both were distributed via Internet Relay Chat, a computer
> > protocol that allows users to copy files at high speed from other
> > computers on different networks.
> >
> > http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/5-11-2002/20020511134501_15.html
> >
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> > ANOTHER RUN TO A DEEP-LINK SUIT
> > Wired
> >
> > Add a major magazine publisher to the ranks of websites peeved about
> > "deep links" to their articles. Rodale Press, the publisher of
> Runner's
> > World magazine and many other prominent health-oriented publications,
> > sent a stiff note to a hobbyist website this week, demanding it delete
> a
> > hyperlink to a "printer-friendly" version of a runnersworld.com
> article
> > or -- face the consequences. . . Deep links point to specific
> sub-pages
> > on a website, allowing readers to bypass the site's home page, and,
> > occasionally, avoid seeing some advertisements. No U.S. court has ever
> > restricted deep-linking of the type at issue here, and most copyright
> > specialists believe the practice does not violate intellectual
> property
> > laws. If deep-linking could be legally restricted by publishers, it
> > would roil the Internet industry and call into question the future of
> > search engines like Google and directory services such as those
> operated
> > by Yahoo and Lycos. . .
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,52514,00.html
> >
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> > NAME SYSTEM FOR INTERNET SHUTS DOWN
> > Associated Press
> >
> > RealNames Corp. is shutting its alternative naming system for the
> > Internet after Microsoft Corp. decided to stop incorporating the
> system
> > in its Internet Explorer browsers. The decision means that users who
> had
> > reached certain Web sites through shortcuts from RealNames would need
> to
> > type in the full address or use a search engine. Users who had typed
> in
> > Chinese or Japanese addresses may find their sites unreachable. . .
> The
> > biggest impact may be on non-English users who had relied on RealNames
> > to link foreign language keywords with Web addresses that use English
> > characters understood by the Internet domain name system.
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> > MSN MESSENGER VULNERABLE TO HACKERS
> > Associated Press
> >
> > Users of the latest versions of Microsoft's popular MSN Messenger
> > program are vulnerable to computer hackers, the company warned on
> > Wednesday. The "critical" flaw in the Internet-based program, which
> has
> > millions of users, is the latest serious security flaw to be
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> > KANSAS TEEN SENTENCED AFTER HACKINGS
> > Newsbytes
> >
> > A Kansas teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking the official Web site
> of
> > Stockton, Calif. and telling city officials he would secure it if they
> > gave him a laptop computer. Matthew Kroeker, 18, was sentenced to
> serve
> > two years probation and pay at least $18,000 restitution, his attorney
> > Kevin Moriarty told Newsbytes. Kroeker pleaded guilty to four felony
> > counts of computer crime in Johnson County District Court last week.
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> > MICROSOFT: INFO COULD AID HACKERS
> > Associated Press
> >
> > Hackers, virus writers and software pirates could run rampant if
> > Microsoft disclosed the technical product information that nine states
> > have requested as an antitrust penalty, a company executive says. Jim
> > Allchin, who oversees the Windows operating system, said that
> > disclosures sought by the states "would make it easier for hackers to
> > break into computer networks, for malicious individuals or
> organizations
> > to spread destructive computer viruses and for unethical people to
> > pirate" Microsoft's flagship software.
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> > VULNERABILITY IS DISCOVERED IN SECURITY FOR SMART CARDS
> > New York Times
> >
> > Two University of Cambridge computer security researchers plan to
> > describe on Monday an ingenious and inexpensive attack that employs a
> > $30 camera flashgun and a microscope to extract secret information
> > contained in widely used smart cards. The newly discovered
> vulnerability
> > is reason for alarm, the researchers said, because it could make it
> > cost-effective for a criminal to steal information from the cards.
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> > A NEW DIRECTION FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
> > New York Times
> >
> > Perceiving an overly zealous culture of copyright protection, a group
> of
> > law and technology scholars are setting up Creative Commons, a
> nonprofit
> > company that will develop ways for artists, writers and others to
> easily
> > designate their work as freely shareable. The firm's founders argue
> that
> > the expansion of legal protection for intellectual property, like a
> 1998
> > law extending the term of copyright by 20 years, could inhibit
> > creativity and innovation. But the main focus of Creative Commons will
> > be on clearly identifying the material that is meant to be shared. The
> > idea is that making it easier to place material in the public domain
> > will in itself encourage more people to do so. The firm's first
> project
> > is to design a set of licenses stating the terms under which a given
> > work can be copied and used by others. Musicians who want to build an
> > audience, for instance, might permit people to copy songs for
> > noncommercial use. Graphic designers might allow unlimited copying of
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> > US v. BENDER, No. 00-16094 (11th Cir. May 8, 2002)
> >
> > Sentence enhancements were proper after convictions related to child
> > pornography, where 1) evidence showed that appellant was more than a
> > mere possessor of pornography (but also received and transmitted such
> > material), 2) images of acts which would have been painful to a minor
> > child amounted to material portraying "sadistic" conduct, and 3)
> > appellant's trading of child pornography in exchange for other child
> > pornography equaled "distribution for gain."
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> > ASHCROFT v. AMER. CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, No. 00-1293 (U.S.S.C. May 13,
> > 2002)
> >
> > The Child Online Protection Act's (COPA) use of "community standards"
> to
> > identify what material "is harmful to minors" does not by itself
> render
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