Tuesday, August 12, 2003

BNA News reports: AUSTRALIA RELEASES FOUR PAPERS IN REVIEW OF DIGITAL COPYRIGHT The Australian government, along with a leading law firm, has released four consultation papers on digital copyright issues. The four papers examine libraries, archives, and educational copying, service providers, technology and rights, and TPMs. Coverage at http://www.findlaw.com.au/news/default.asp?task=read&id941 Papers at http://www.phillipsfox.com/whats_on/Australia/DigitalAgenda/DigitalAgenda.asp 4:35:44 PM    comment []

Salon and The Well say: Announcing the opportunity to lock in your Salon Premium Subscription rate if you have the one year Think Ahead Special with Salon Premium now! The rates go up at the end of the week, but if you sign up for the pay-ahead plan for The Well and Table Talk you not only get the lower rate for this annual subscription but lock in the $30 per year Salon Premium rate as long as you subscribe -- even if you later drop your Well and Table Talk memberships. What is this deal? In a nutshell, you pay for 10 months in advance and you not only get the 11th and 12th month free, you also get a complimentary year's subscription to Salon Premium (a $30 - soon to be $35 - value) enabling you to enjoy full access to Salon's award-winning features and investigative reporting. Without having to wait and see an online commercial, or to extend your daypass at the readpremium page. All in an ad-free environment. Not to mention a gaggle of goodies like free full- length audio book downloads, magazines, ebooks and music downloads and an ability to download a day's worth of Salon content as a simple text or PDF file. 1:34:46 PM    comment []

Charming adventure game. 9:34:08 AM    comment []

Zone Labs branches into IM security. Security software specialist Zone Labs has bought IMsecure to capitalize on the growing problem of instant messaging security flaws, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. [CNET News.com] 7:48:26 AM    comment []

Farhad Manjoo wonders, in Keeping the Net neutral (A coalition of big-name tech companies -- Microsoft, Amazon, eBay and others -- wants the feds to make sure that cable companies don't ruin the broadband Internet. From Salon): Can we trust your cable company -- and the free market -- to let us do what we want on the Internet? Can we trust Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, and the others to let us do what we want on the Internet? I argued that MSFT was a threat, through its WebTV acquisition, in 1998. 7:45:55 AM    comment []

To Fox, 'Fair and Balanced' Doesn't Describe Al Franken. Lawyers for Fox News Network argue that Fox has trademarked the phrase and that the political satirist's use of it would "blur and tarnish" it. By Susan Saulny. [New York Times: Business] 7:40:55 AM    comment []

Documents of Freedom. John Stuart Mill's classic is all over the Web, because it reminded us that freedom requires reckoning with "heretical opinions" -- a message we need now more than ever. [Salon Headlines] 7:38:34 AM    comment []

Med Students to Make Mouse Calls. Online education isn't just for MBAs and IT workers anymore. A new program will allow medical students to complete the first half of their schooling remotely, with a combination of online courses and local clinic practice. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News] 7:27:29 AM    comment []