.kids.us, filtering, Sonny Bono
The aforementioned bill that establishes the .kids.us domain (not just .kids, as I've indicated earlier) has passed in the House. A similar bill is going to be (or has been) introduced to the Senate.
A library in Florida is rethinking its anti-filtering stance after a teenager arrested for possessing child pornography told police he downloaded the images there. (Is it me or do a lot of these filtering stories originate in Florida?)
I haven't mentioned the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extention Act recently, so check out Eldred v. Ashcroft, a website that covers the challenge to the bill being heard by the Supreme Court.
[TT] Reuters via CyberLaw@Sidley
[TT] News-Press via LibraryPlanet.com
[TT] via Shifted Librarian
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:25:00 PM
Web radio royalty rates rejected, DMCA
The decent news: the U.S. Copyright Office has rejected the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel's proposed royalty rates for Web radio stations. The bad news: when they make their official decision in June, they could set a higher rate. The good news: they may instead make the rate lower.
John Dvorak weighs in on the power brokers behind the DMCA.
Meanwhile, the ElcomSoft trial date has been set.
[TT] Reuters via LibraryPlanet.com
[TT] PC Magazine via Library Stuff
[TT] SiliconValley.com via LLRX.com
[EDITOR'S NOTE] Fixed abbreviation for DMCA
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:31:28 PM
.kids
The Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, which aims to establish the .kids domain, has been introduced to the House by Rep. John Shimkus.
[TT] US Government Printing Office via GigaLaw.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:35:00 PM
Media literacy, Literary Lynching
Sorry for neglecting L.A.C.K. sans warning, but it's been hella busy at work (and I took Wednesday off). Of course, today isn't going to much of an update either: I'm just linking to two interesting things from this week's Juice.
First off is an argument for media literacy instead of laws that restrict freedom, by the Free Expression Policy Project.
Secondly is an ongoing web-based book project by Dorothy Bryant called Literary Lynching, which is featured at the Holt Uncensored website.
[TT] Free Expression Policy Project & Holt Uncensored via Library Juice
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:37:41 PM
Supreme Court decision on COPA
The Supreme Court has decided not to lift the injunction on the Child Online Protection Act, saying that it needs a lot of work before it doesn't violate the first amendment. This bodes well for CIPA opponents.
[TT] SFGate.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:41:28 PM
