Intellectual Property Law

minilinks for 2008-25-17

By Hugh DAndrade

• Parents to Be Punished For Children's Net Piracy
  Households that are suspected of illegal downloads will be blacklisted and have Internet access curbed under new rules in the UK.
• Senate Bill Asks Attorney General to Investigate Piracy
  Senators Leahy and Specter have introduced a new bill that would allow documents and records to be seized in civil copyright-infringement suits.
• ISP Admits Secret Web Snooping in Kansas
  An ISP in Kansas admits to eavesdropping on the web surfing habits of it's customers without notifying them.
• Librarians Launch Privacy Initiative
  The American Library Association has launched a new "Right to Information Privacy Campaign," aiming to get Americans to "recommit to information privacy."
• Cory Doctorow's Address to Librarians on Privacy
  EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow gave an inspiring speech on privacy at the recent ALA conference.
• Kaminsky Provides DNS Flaw Details
  Security expert Dan Kaminsky has made public the details of a DNS flaw he found earlier this year.
• Fresh Allegations of E-Voting Fraud
  A security expert says he has evidence that Diebold officials installed a suspicious patch in two counties in Georgia in 2002.
• Sony Opens E-Book Reader to Outside Publishers
  In a challenge to the dominance of Amazon's Kindle, Sony's e-book reader will be able to read books in the .epub format, opening the device to work created by any publisher.
• Record Labels Ask Judge to Rule Against Limewire
  The major labels have teamed up to file a motion for a summary judgment saying the P2P software company "promoted infringement."

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).