[Commons-Law] A compilation of interesting articles

[Aniruddha Shankar]

I read a lot of tech sites and subscribe to the daily
headlines from slashdot - which bills itself as "News
for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." . I've seen lots of
high quality discussions on law / policy / tech /
freedom / stufflikethat. I often come across
interesting articles which I feel that some friends of
mine who are into tech / law / policy / IP / public
domain / should read. I ve compiled this list of
articles I thought were interesting, compelling and
cool from approximately December 2002. Most of the 150
articles indexed below are taken from slashdot and a
few here and there are from kuro5hin. They're listed
in rough CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER - the reason being that
on many complex and long running issues getting the
background info is quite important. 

If this compilation is of use to you, i'd be quite
kicked if you mailed me about how and where you used
it ... getting information like this into wider
circulation is the very reason I've done this...
.Time, net access and patience permitting, i'll be
releasing a weekly update of similar stuff that I find
interesting, compelling and cool.

Compiling this thing involved heavy use of the copy
and paste muscles (control-c and control-v, Lawrence)
which have been lying dormant since the last time I
have had to submit an assignment for law school. 

For this exercise, I used the excellent Mozilla
Firebird Browser - which I recommend all of you try
out - it's small, free, very fast, clean and extremely
stable. I'd even say it's neck and neck with Opera. Or
maybe even better. http://www.mozilla.org/ 

Aniruddha Karim Shankar


Table of Contents - 

Problems in opensource licensing
W3C proposes new Patents Policy
FSF's faq on why you should say GNU/Linux
(die-dead-horse-die )
Patents choking off Medical Research
What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga & fan fiction
Pirate Anime FAQ
Simultaneous use of GPL & Commercial licenses
Robin Gross and IP Justice
US state department is trying to block international
support of OSS and Free (Libre) Software. 
P2P Content Delivery for Open Source
Jack Valenti's views on the Digital Age
Is the BSA's Grace Period a Scam ?
Japan Subsidizes Linux Development, Considers Switch
Open Source Book a Collective Effort
Shared Source vs. Open Source
Calif. EULA Case
Open Content Music Database Launched
Article on Westlaw & Lexis restricting access to case
databases ;)
The Case Against Intellectual Property
Advice to Microsoft regarding commodity software -
from David Stutz, ex-employee. 
Eben Moglen, stalwart supporter of the EFF and the FSF
answers questions
Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly
Creation Myths: Does innovation require intellectual
property rights?
Taiwan Forces MS To Cut Prices, Unbundle Software
Dismal Failure of Internet Filters In Australia
Draft Bills from Oregon and Texas that would require
consideration of OSS by governments. 
Forbes Editorial on Lessig and Eldred v Ashcroft -
good read
Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks
"Super-DMCA" Laws In Tennessee and Arkansas
Update on State "Communications Services" Laws
“Open Source Enables Terrorist States”
EFF's Cindy Cohn Talks About Patriot Act II
Why do People Write Open Source Software ?
Grokster's President Talks about Court Win
Brain Privacy
Software Patents: From Legal Wordings to Economic
Reality
U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties
(couldnt resist this ;) )
The Law and P2P
RIAA Nightmare: Professional Portable Hard Disk
Recorder
Legally Defining "Unauthorized" Computer Access
The War Between p2p and Record Companies Heating Up?
Lessig on Streamcast/Grokster Decision
When copyprotection fails
MPA targets Lyric sites
Is Data Mining for Product Pricing Illegal ?
Online Newshour Tackling Digital Copyright
Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions
Monsanto Plant Patent Case Winds On
What if SCO is Right?
Does Gaming Reduce Productivity?
W3C Patent Policy
Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Formed
OSI vs SCO
RIAA vs The Economy
FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit
SCO Claims Linux Sales After Suit Irrelevant
Open Source Music
Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits
Kalam's Advocacy for OSS - good discussion
SCO v. Linux ... continued 
Copy Protection a "Crime Against Humanity" ?
Law and Virtual Worlds
Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content
Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy
Public Domain Enhancement Act
Opensouce movement looks at copyright defeats...
SCO SCO SCO!
BSA Creates Piracy Statistics
DMCA Vs. The Sewing Underground !!!! – yes, sewing as
in needle and thread
SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence?
“43 Million Americans Use P2P Software”
UCITA Stalled At State Level
Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code?
Model End Vendor License Agreement – from EULA to EVLA
?
Who Opposes Open Source Software In Government?
Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark
SCO Gives Friday Deadline To IBM
Red Hat License Challenged
Microsoft Flouting DOJ Settlement?
No Business Like SCO Business
European MP Responds on Software Patents
IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline
Settling SCOres
SCO terminates IBM's license
IBM Responds To SCO: Business As Usual
Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source
Bill
SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples
Damages
EU Moves Towards Single European Patent Standard
Using Closed Standards To Pay For Open Ones
Europe, Free Speech, And The Internet
Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking?
The Power Behind the SCO Nuisance
UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL
My Visit to SCO
Legitimate uses for DeCSS
SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo
Piracy Deterrence and Education Act Introduced
Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL
What is Open Source?
KaZaA Wants to Be An Official Content Distributor
RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD
Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress
Hall On Worldwide Open Source Movement
Law Prof Examines SCO Case
Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass
More on European Software Patents
$180 Million for Piracy Conspiracy
Harry Potter and the Entertainment Industry
Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux – check this out
Engaging with the OSS Community
EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules
TV Brick - Open Source TV Streaming?
Bill Gates on Linux
OpenContent Closes Its Doors
A Critical Look at Trusted Computing
EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping (badri, can we see
some shots ?)
Digital Shoplifting From real world Bookstores (using
cellphones with cameras)
Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta
Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right
Freenet Creator Debates RIAA
SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan
9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use
Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix - Check this out
Open Source Law
Is Law Copyrighted?
Open Source Organization Models Discussed
OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money
Cringely On Electronic Tapping
Evangelizing OSS in the Caribbean
How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA?
Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P
DMCA-Alikes Sweep Europe
DoJ's 'Anti-Piracy' Lawyers answer questions....
interesting. 
Linus says Linux IP is sound.
Freenet 0.5.2 Released - check this out. 
House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony
Seminar On Details Of The GPL And Related Licenses
Microsoft Names Linux as Number 2 Risk
Deep Linking Legal in Germany
SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview
Embarrassing Governments Into Adopting Open Source
SCO Extorting Unixware Licenses to Linux Users?

Problems in opensource licensing
	from an aussie perspective, but lots of general
points. 
	http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/13/8422/16656

W3C proposes new Patents Policy
	W3C is planning to change their rules so that
patented technologies will be accepted as standards
for the Web (like http, html) , subject to
"royalty-free license" requirements. FSF cries foul

FSF's faq on why you should say GNU/Linux
(die-dead-horse-die )
	http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html

Patents choking off Medical Research
	 "[ there is an] absence of truly innovative drugs in
current drug company pipelines. And the explanation
for that might well come from the supposed fount of
American innovation: our patent system." Apparently
they are trapped in a situation where "it's much
easier to argue that `patents support innovation' than
to try to explain that some patents are good for
innovation while others are bad." 

http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20021007&s=thompson100702
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/02/1339205

What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga
	Lawrence Lessig, writing "This article explains the
interesting phenomenon of dojinshi (fan created art),
and why dojinshi helps fuel the production of original
manga. From a western-perspective, dojinshi breaks
copyright laws, but, according to the article's
author: 'The law is a rough-edged tool. It was not
crafted by geniuses of economics.' In a time when laws
like the DMCA exist and are being exploited, this is
certainly food for thought."

http://www.redherring.com/insider/2003/01/copycats011003.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/2256238

the Pirate Anime FAQ
	the most comprehensive and detailed guide to spotting
bootleg and counterfeit anime/manga related goods -
The Pirate Anime FAQ.
	http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/piratefaq.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/2114210


Simultaneous use of GPL & Commercial licenses
	dual licensing (simultaneous use of both GPL and
proprietary license) works. Dual licensing gives you
basically both the support of the community and a
profitable Microsoft-like business model. Seems that
this model used by MySQL and TrollTech is getting more
popular. 
	http://www.open-mag.com/1043683279.htm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/213217

Robin Gross and IP Justice
	former EFF attorney Robin Gross is starting up a new
group called IP Justice in order to 'promote balance
in global intellectual property law.'
	http://news.com.com/2008-1082-981663.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0238232

US state department is trying to block international
support of OSS and Free (Libre) Software. However,
Department of Homeland Security moves from Win2k to
Linux

http://pigdog.org/auto/digital_gar_gar_gar/link/2781.html

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/15/030115hnwsisos.xml

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/1831240&tid=2

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/2045236

P2P Content Delivery for Open Source
	The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to
help deliver open source, public domain, and Creative
Commons-licensed content using peer-to-peer
technology. The network is essentially a huge 'virtual
web server' that links together thousands of computers
for the purpose of helping out
over-burdened/slashdotted web sites. Any existing
mirror or web site can easily join the OCN by tweaking
the HTML on their site.

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1823218

Jack Valenti's views on the Digital Age
	 interview with Jack Valenti. He gives his thoughts
on government mandated copy prevention, fair use, and
lobbying. In response to his famous 'VCR is [to the
movie industry]...as the Boston strangler is to the
woman home alone.' quote, he responds, 'I wasn't
opposed to the VCR.' And what does he think of his
current job? 'I think lobbying is really an honest
profession.'" 
	http://www.hpronline.org/news/347207.html?mkey=628413

http://cmusings.blogspot.com/2003_02_02_cmusings_archive.html#88495460

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1828238

Is the BSA's Grace Period a Scam ?
	An anonymous reader asks: "I work at a small
non-profit that has 18 employees plus a 13 seat
computer lab. We received a form letter from the
Business Software Alliance (BSA) telling us to do a
self audit and if we find any unlicensed software to
report it during our 'Grace Period' because 'if you
organization's software is not licensed, it could
become to focus of a BSA investigation'. Now this is
obviously a method to scare up some business for the
BSA members. If we ignore this, how likely is it that
we will be 'investigated'. I know that I cannot
produce the original CD's and/or documentation for
some of the software that we HAVE paid for."

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/0733256

Japan Subsidizes Linux Development, Considers Switch
	Japan is betting 50 million yen ($450k US) that the
next-generation of high-tech products and computer
networks will rely on open-source software. The money
is to develop an 'operating system for consumer
electronics goods'.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030205/ap_wo_en_bu/as_tec_japan_linux_1

Open Source Book a Collective Effort
	The New Zealand Open Source Society has begun a
project to write a book to put the case for open
source use in business and government. There is a need
for a book which clearly puts the case for using open
source, and provides a clear migration plan. Already
five authors and several reviewers have stepped
forward to commit time to writing the book. However,
other authors and reviewers would be welcome to join
the project."

http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=45
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1535228

Shared Source vs. Open Source
	"Microsoft are fond of touting Shared Source as being
"as good as" Open Source, with a view to muddying the
waters as much as possible, and so keeping as many
people away from the benefits of Open Source Software
(OSS) (particularly Software Libré AKA "Free
Software") as they can. This new article analysing the
differences arrives just in time for Microsoft's
Australia-wide series of "Competitive Hour"
misinformation sessions on Open Source, and includes a
handy list of potentially showstopper questions. We'd
like your help in putting these and other questions to
the speaker during such misinformation sessions, with
the dual aim of opening the eyes of many of the
audience, and reporting back to us what was said so
that we can refine the questions to close whatever
loopholes are employed in evading these important
issues."
	Differences at
http://linux.org.au/~leonb/articles/picking-up-your-marbles.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1213257

Calif. EULA Case
	"News.com has this story about a California woman
suing Microsoft, Symantec and others, seeking
class-action status on behalf of all Californians
who've bought software including Norton Antivirus
2002, Norton Systemworks and Windows XP Upgrade. She
claims that the companies have devised a scheme to
sell software licenses without allowing purchasers to
review the license prior to sale. She also claims that
people who reject the license cannot return the
software to the store. She bases this on her rejecting
the EULAs for the software mentioned above, going back
to CompUSA and being told she couldn't return them
because the boxes were opened."
	http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983988.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/190242

Open Content Music Database Launched
	"The open source music database MusicBrainz was
launched officially today. The data is partly in the
public domain, partly under an open content like
license. It includes artist/album/track information,
with more to come. There's support for CDDB-like CD
identification (actually, a lot of the current data
was imported from freedb), but also identification of
single tracks via audio fingerprints (TRMs). Help both
in adding new content by tagging your music collection
and consolidating the existing data is welcome. 

http://musicbrainz.org/news/pressreleases/20030211-1.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0155219

Article on Westlaw & Lexis restricting access to case
databases ;)
	'[T]he courts and the court's words belong to us. In
more ways than one, the American people have already
paid for the case law produced by our courts.
Commercial vendors must not be allowed to highjack our
law or dictate who may have access to it. By refusing
to allow public libraries to purchase electronic
subscriptions that can serve their patrons, Westlaw
and LexisNexis are closing the door on information.' 
	http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan03/barr.htm

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/163259

The Case Against Intellectual Property
	David Levine, who teaches at UCLA and Michele Boldrin
argue that current IP laws encourage an inefficient
rent model and stifle the potential for innovation
without intellectual monopoly. 
	http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch1.pdf
	http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch2.pdf
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1914236

Advice to Microsoft regarding commodity software -
from David Stutz, ex-employee. 
	He covers opensource, the MS business model.
interesting stuff.
	http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html

Eben Moglen, stalwart supporter of the EFF and the FSF
answers questions
	on what has been FSF's biggest win and biggest loss,
Clarifying the GPL, advice to independent developers
regarding the GPL, the non-legal language in which the
GPL is drafted, what can be done about spurious legal
threats, long term survival prospects of Free
software, how to be a lawyer without selling out to
big money ;) ... lots of other cool stuff. must read.

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1544245
	
Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly
	The nation's largest group of defense lawyers on
Wednesday published a position paper arguing that
people convicted of computer-related crimes tend to
get stiffer sentences than comparable
non-computer-related offenses.' 

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/cases/1030%20Comments%202-19-03.pdf

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1545209
Creation Myths: Does innovation require intellectual
property rights?
	discussion on a Paper written by a pair of economists
and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis and the reactions to it of several other
economists. A snippet from the article: 'Moreover,
U.S. court decisions in the 1980s that strengthened
patent protection for software led to less innovation.
"Far from unleashing a flurry of new innovative
activity," Maskin and Bessen write, "these stronger
property rights ushered in a period of stagnant, if
not declining, R&D among those industries and firms
that patented most."'

Taiwan Forces MS To Cut Prices, Unbundle Software
	 Microsoft has agreed to cut prices on their software
after a backlash from the country's effort to crack
down on piracy. Seems the citizens were forced to
obtain pirated copies due to the high cost and having
to buy software they did not need to get the parts
they DID need."
	http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-986228.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/27/1916211

Dismal Failure of Internet Filters In Australia
	 the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), the
department responsible for implementing the insane
Internet regulatory framework put in place by the
current government, is about to drop a number of
Internet Filtering packages due to their
ineffectiveness.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/03/1046540132206.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0116227

Draft Bills from Oregon and Texas that would require
consideration of OSS by governments. 
	'Requires state government to consider using open
source software when acquiring new software. Sets
other requirements for acquiring software.' Oregon
Biil stalls under heavy attack from MS.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/viewtext.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01579&VERSION=1&TYPE=B

http://www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/hb2800.dir/hb2892.intro.html
	http://www.leg.state.or.us/barnhart/hb2892.htm

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/06/018222.shtml?tid=4
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1815239

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0030247

http://www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/hb2800.dir/hb2892.intro.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2054202

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/05/10/138240.shtml?tid=4

Forbes Editorial on Lessig and Eldred v Ashcroft -
good read
	'Maybe Congress should just be done with it and
declare that a copyright is forever....Stanford Law
School professor Lawrence Lessig has proposed a
sensible compromise..."[I]f Congress is listening to
the frustration that the court's decision has created,
[paying to maintain copyright extensions] would be a
simple and effective way for the First Branch to
respond." 
	http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0331/027.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/1711213

Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks
	http://www.etc-edu.com/
	http://www.promo.net/pg/

"Super-DMCA" Laws In Tennessee and Arkansas
	These bills threaten personal privacy, anonymity, and
security research. SB 213 and HB457 are similar to
state laws introduced all over the country by the
MPAA.

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/Bills/currentga/Bill/sb0213.pdf

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/Bills/currentga/Bill/hb0457.pdf

http://www.publicknowledge.org/education/super-dmcas.php
	http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/

Update on State "Communications Services" Laws
	"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting a
breaking news item: Colorado Governor Owens has vetoed
a super-DMCA-like bill similar to the one passed in
Michigan." Felten has a comment on the Colorado bill.
Tennessee is delaying their consideration of the bill.
And Oregon's bill has died for now; see below for
more.

http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/archives/2003_05.php#000283
	http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000392.html

http://tennessean.com/business/archives/03/05/33062618.shtml?Element_ID=33062618
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/23/1718212

"Open Source Enables Terrorist States"
	'...due to world events and the evolving threat posed
by increasingly capable nation-states...' US DARPA
funding for the OpenBSD project cancelled. For those
who don't know, OpenBSD is one of the prime forces
behind openssl, ubiquitous encryption software used by
websites the world over.
	http://64.90.164.50/article.php3?sid=20030422123107

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-04/1862.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/0256240

  	
EFF's Cindy Cohn Talks About Patriot Act II
	Here's an interview with EFF's Legal Director Cindy
Cohn, where she talks about the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act, or 'Patriot Act II'. She talks about
what the act is, how it might infringe on your
freedoms, where it does right and how ordinary people
can make a difference.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61971&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=158&tid=103&mode=thread&cid=5812594
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/1326200
	

Why do People Write Open Source Software ?
	"Two interesting articles try to answer this
question. One's at NewsForge, the other's at
Cybernaut.com. The two writers reach conclusions that
are almost exactly opposite. Which one is right?

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2128256&tid=11

http://cybernaut.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=8&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1417247

Grokster's President Talks about Court Win
	Now that the Morpheus/Grokster trial is over, the
heads of the various P2P services are hoisting their
glasses in triumph. Ciarán Tannam interviews Grokster
President Wayne Rosso to get his two cents on the
verdict. Xolox also applauded the ruling and posted
this release. Of course, it aint over yet as the RIAA
has vowed appeal."
	http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/grokster.html
	http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/xolox.html

Brain Privacy
	"As neuroscience advances and brain scans become more
sophisticated, the Boston Globe points out that some
privacy advocates are concerned about brain privacy.
Could employees be scanned for violent or depressive
impulses? Could soldiers be screened for
homosexuality? It sounds like a Philip K. Dick vision
of the future, but some predict this will be a bigger
ethical issue than genetics." original article seems
to have disappeared but the discussion's still there. 
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/1531228

Software Patents: From Legal Wordings to Economic
Reality
	Record of goings on at conference where organisers
said that they will bring together programmers,
engineers, entrepreneurs, law scholars, economists and
politicians to explore the whole chain of causality
from proposed patent law regulations to European
policy goals, such as promoting innovation,
competition, enterpreneurial spirit and consumer
protection, unbureaucratic and target-oriented
governance, legal security, favorable conditions for
small and medium enterprises and "becoming the world's
most competitive information society by 2010".

http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2003/europarl/05/index.en.html

U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties
(couldnt resist this ;) )
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2311201 -
excellent, provocative discussion. 
	
The Law and P2P
	continuing saga of copyright enforcement and Apple's
attempt at a constructive approach."

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030508_sprigman.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1518247

RIAA Nightmare: Professional Portable Hard Disk
Recorder
	"Anybody interested in creating their own MP3 or WAV
recordings should take a look at this device. It is a
compact hard drive recorder that looks like it is the
next logical step beyond ADAT. My interest is fair
use, the ability to record my compositions and
performance with studio grade equipment at a
reasonable cost.
	http://www.micsupply.com/722.htm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2021247

Legally Defining "Unauthorized" Computer Access
	"Orin S. Kerr, Associate Professor at George
Washington University Law School, has written an
article trying to answer the question "what does it
mean to 'access' a computer? And when is access
'unauthorized'?" 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=399740
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1647209

The War Between p2p and Record Companies Heating Up?
	there may be a new nasty turn to the battle between
the p2p networks and the RIAA/MPAA. recently, the RIAA
has been trying to flood kazza with files that appear
to be valid copyrighted material (movies,mp3s, ect)
but are empty or, in one case, of Madonna Louise
Veronica Ciccone, contain a voice file asking, "What
the f*ck do you think you are doing?". The p2p
networks are considering a possible move agianst the
RIAA in response to this by using recently enacted
anti-spam laws."
	http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/158
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1518237

Lessig on Streamcast/Grokster Decision
	 editorial in Financial Times regarding the recent
court decision in favor Streamcast (which distributes
"Morpheus") and Grokster. 'The wisdom of this rule is
something innovators in Silicon Valley are
increasingly coming to see. When courts intervene to
maintain copyright's balance, the inevitable
consequence is that innovation is harmed. If every
innovator with technologies affecting content must
bear the burden of a lawsuit before his innovation can
be allowed, there will be many fewer innovations in
the distribution and creation of content. That in turn
will harm artists and technologists alike. Better to
let the innovation happen, and then consider whether
the change caused by the innovation is so significant
as to require new legislation by the legislature.'"

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1051389898745
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/118211

When copyprotection fails
	"The Age in Australia has an article today explaining
the experiences of a Melbourne guy who purchased the
Norah Jones CD tht is 'copy protected.' Unfortunately
the only way he could listen to the CD on Apple
computers or Intel computers running XP was to copy
the CD. This sort of defeats the purpose of the copy
protection in the first place. Serious yet amusing at
the same time."

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/13/1052591771111.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/0348212

MPA targets Lyric sites
	"Apparently the Music Publishers Association is
cracking down on sites, like LyricFind, that display
song lyrics without permission. 'Just because there is
no central licensing body it doesn't make it right to
take lyrics and publish them without permission.' says
Sarah Faulder of the MPA."
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3019681.stm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/040206

Is Data Mining for Product Pricing Illegal ?
	"I started to read Orin S. Kerr's 80-page paper
looking for how his proposal would pertain to: ripping
music/movies, P2P, corporate espionage, and lastly,
the use of web scraper robots. Little did I know just
how relevant his paper would be in regards to that
last item! Kerr makes note of EF Cultural Travel v.
Explorica in which Explorica is caught hiring a
consultant to program a scraping robot to gather
pricing information from a competitor, EF Cultural
Travel. Well, I do consulting on the side from home
and am currently working a project whereby I gather
pricing information from all the major travel
conglomerates (Orbitz, Expedia, Lodging.com, WorldRes,
Sabre, etc.) so that the travel booking business that
hired me can meet or beat all their prices. Granted,
the circumstances of the Explorica case are different
and the case was an example of an extreme ruling, but
my questions to the Slashdot community are: Do I
notify the company that hired me of the Explorica
case? Why is using a scraper robot so different from,
say, walking into Best Buy with a handheld and
recording product pricing manually? Should I continue
with this project and the similar projects I do in
this area of programming?" Now, add in the text in the
"deliverables" section of this press release and it
seems we may have some contradictory information. Who
is right, and under what circumstances is price
harvesting off of the internet not allowed?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1647209&tid=123

http://www.phillipsnizer.com/library/cases/lib_case312.cfm

Online Newshour Tackling Digital Copyright
	online version of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is
tackling copyright in the digital age. They are
sponsoring a forum where Lawrence Lessig will square
off against RIAA executive Matt Oppenheim. Anyone can
submit questions, and the best questions or comments
will be posted to Lessig and Oppenheim for debate and
discussion. 

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/april-may03/copyright.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/digital_copyright/index.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/15/2259240
	
Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions
	"The answers are finally in! Stanford's Lawrence
Lessig and the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim have responded to
all the tough questions on copyrighted music, many
from Slashdot readers, for the online part of the PBS
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Take a look - some of the
responses may surprise you."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyright.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/0210223

Monsanto Plant Patent Case Winds On
	this is about the saskatchewan farmer sued by
monsanto for growing their patented canola which
crosspollinated his field 
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1645212

What if SCO is Right?
	" What if SCO is right. Bruce Perens was quoted with
this scenario. "it's entirely possible that SCO was
inadvertently distributing its own proprietary Unix
code in its version of Linux. In that case, SCO
would've already released its Unix source code into
open source".  But here's the catch: Does this
validate Microsoft's view of a "viral GPL"?"

http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10000066
	http://news.com.com/2100-1001-268889.html?legacy=cnet
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/1613218

Does Gaming Reduce Productivity?
	just thought i'd sneak this in :)

http://www.avault.com/articles/getarticle.asp?name=reducprod

W3C Patent Policy
	"According to ComputerWorld, the Patent Policy
Working Group at the W3C is ready to release a new
proposal for dealing with technology patents that get
in the way of creating web standards. While making no
comment, the W3C was seeking public input for its
Royalty Free Patent Policy until April 30th."

http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/webdev/story/0,10801,81309,00.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/2113250
	"The World Wide Web Consortium has approved the W3C
Patent Policy based on review by the W3C Advisory
Committee and thanks to lots of input and cajoling
from the Open Source community and slashdoters. Read
the public Director's decision. We're the first major
standards organization that sets the explicit goal of
producing only standards that can be implemented
without paying patent royalties. Our policy requires
legal commitments from all who contribute to the
development of Web standards that patents held by the
contributor will be available on royalty-free terms.
Both proprietary and open source software have been
critical to the growth of the Web. With this policy,
we intend to enabled continued innovation by both open
source and proprietary development."

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20030520.html

http://www.w3.org/2003/05/12-director-patent-decision-public.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/134254
	
Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Formed
	"News.com reports that three members from the House
of Reps has formed a caucus that aims to stop piracy
and make for stronger IP laws. One of the members of
the caucus: helped author a note last fall to 74
fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source
operating system's GNU General Public License as a
threat to America's 'innovation and security.'"
	http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1007908.html

OSI vs SCO
	"As expected, the OSI's just given the SCO vs IBM
case a bite with this position paper. "SCO has never
owned the UNIX trademark. IBM neither requested nor
required SCO's permission to call their AIX offering a
Unix. That decision lies not with the accidental owner
of the historical Bell Labs source code, but with the
Open Group.""


RIAA vs The Economy
	"Boycott-RIAA.com is running an analysis of the RIAA
sales vs a number of other large corporations. It was
compiled by Justin Moore at Duke University. It is
really quite interesting, showing the the RIAA sales
are pretty much consistent with the rest of the
economy. From the analysis: I would assert, however
that it does make the case in cold, hard numbers that
the RIAA's claim of digital piracy ravaging their
sales must be taken with a rather large grain of salt.
The CEOs of Eastman-Kodak are in a nearly identical
economic situation as the RIAA, yet do not have the
luxury of blaming digital piracy."
	http://www.boycott-riaa.com/analysis.php

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/copyright/riaa/RIAA-vs-Economy.html#aboutme
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2135207
	http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html

FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit
	"Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News reports
that OpenTV is violating the GNU General Public
License. He notes that the Free Software Foundation is
threatening to file a lawsuit in the case. "

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001029.shtml#001029
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1932253

SCO Claims Linux Sales After Suit Irrelevant
	"Here's the first reaction I've seen from SCO
regarding the public's stance that the code they
distributed under the GPL negates their claims on code
in the Linux kernel. They claim that the lack of
copyright notices "placed by the copyright holder"
means that the GPL does not protect the unmentioned
code in question. "

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/22/1053196680078.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/1723229

Open Source Music
	"As big labels battle it out in a Post-Napster world,
open source comes to music ... Creative Commons has a
feature on an open source style music site for artists
launched by Sal Randolph.."
	http://creativecommons.org/learn/features/opsound
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/0230206

Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits
	"WashTech is running a story about how having a
non-compete agreement could cause loss of unemployment
benefits. While non-compete agreements are addressed
in unemployment benefits policies, it seems you still
get shafted because it forces you to accept any
employment outside your field, making it much harder
to find work in your field."

http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=457

Delays and Problems for India's New CDMA Network
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/005203

Kalam's Advocacy for OSS - good discussion
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1226247

SCO v. Linux ... continued 
	"ComputerWorld has an interview with Chris Sontag,
from SCO. Now the story has a pretty face." The
interview has a variety of comments worth noting like
how much source code SCO thinks has slipped from unix
to linux. This story continues to amaze me.

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81613,00.html?nas=AM-81613
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1752208

Copy Protection a "Crime Against Humanity" ?
	"An article over at Wired looks into the relation
between copy protection and the reality of a rational
amount of 'wiggle room' that is typically provided by
the legal system. It's a topic covered often on
Slashdot, but it's still a good read. Should be
accompanied by a visit to the Electronic Frontier
Foundation for your Daily Dose of Defending Digital
Freedom." The article does a good job of giving
examples of legal leeway that's granted every day.
	http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/view.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/0227258

Law and Virtual Worlds
	"In light of yesterday's spirited discussion of the
Shadowbane hack, I thought folks might be interested
in this forthcoming article about the laws of virtual
worlds. The article has three parts: 1) a history of
virtual worlds (e.g. Space War --> MMORPGs), 2) a
theoretical analysis of whether virtual world
"property" can/should be treated as legal property,
and 3) an analysis of whether virtual worlds
can/should give rise to any other legal rights, i.e.
rights of avatars -- an idea first floated by Raph
Koster. I realize there are plenty of strongly-held
and divergent opinions on this, so hopefully this
might add to the ongoing conversation. Also, we're
revising this for publication over the summer, so we
will be reading the comments for any
corrections/insights/humor that we can incorporate
into our revisions."
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/176236

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1452201&tid=209

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=402860

http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/playerrights.html

Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content
	"News.com is reporting that Kazaa and Altnet are
unrolling a setup where users are paid to distribute
'authorized content.' The article also mentions
something about getting rid of unauthorized files, but
is unclear on when and how. I'll be paying close
attention to whether this P2P business model pans out;

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1011827.html?tag=fd_top
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1841239

Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy
	"DoD issued a policy statement leveling the playing
field for Open Source. We have the memo on the Center
of Open Source & Government site." The requirements
listed in this memo make me think of a company policy
along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler
to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick
effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider." See this
PDF for more information about National Security
Telecommunications and Information Systems Security
Policy (NSTISSP) number 11."
	http://www.egovos.org/
	http://niap.nist.gov/niap/library/nstissp_11.pdf

Public Domain Enhancement Act
	"" 'This statute would require American copyright
owners to pay a very low fee (for example, $1) fifty
years after a copyrighted work was published. If the
owner pays the fee, the copyright will continue for
whatever duration Congress sets. But if the copyright
is not worth even $1 to the owner, then we believe the
work should pass into the public domain.'" See the
brief description of the Act if you aren't familiar
with what Eldred and Lessig are proposing.
	http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/EldredActOnePage5.htm
	http://eldred.cc/
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1641229

Opensouce movement looks at copyright defeats...
	"Over the last few years, we've seen what looks like
the victory of copyright and business interest at the
expense of the consumer. There's been The DMCA, the
UCITA, all of the legal wranging over DeCSS, and so
on. Copyright holders can even shut your website down
without doing the research about whether or not it was
appropriate. Johansen did seem to be acquited of some
of what was brought against him as a result of the
DeCSS situation, but that was in Norway. Does anyone
know of any copyright or consumer victories on the net
in the last few years? Something that limits the
abilities of these laws, or otherwise acts in the
copyright spirit of free use? My hat is off to GNU and
EFF, even Project Gutenberg. What is the status of
this ongoing battle? I'm looking for the sunny side to
a situation that seems littered with defeat."
	http://www.cpsr.org/program/UCITA/ucita-fact.html
	http://anti-dmca.org/
	http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html

http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/

SCO SCO SCO!
	"more links on SCO's assorted allegations of
copyright infringement. They say they're going to sue
Novell. Software analysts refuse to be part of the
hoax - also some good quotes from Linus here. SCO and
UNIX: a Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on SCO
too, but sadly it's not available to read freely. And
Wired has an old story which I think sums up the SCO
claims pretty well.
	http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1011627.html

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81695,00.html

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=514_0_3_0_C

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,57095,00.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2012255

BSA Creates Piracy Statistics
	""According to this story on Yahoo! news the BSA
commissioned a study that decided that 39% of all
business software is pirated, down from 40%. The
decline is attributed to the BSA's enforcement
techniques. 'The piracy rate was calculated by
comparing the researchers' estimates on demand with
data on actual software sales.'" In other words, some
guys sat in a room and decided that people probably
wanted to buy ten copies of software, but only five
were sold, so the piracy rate must therefore be 50%.
By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all
ocean-front homes are pirated."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=9&u=/ap/20030603/ap_on_hi_te/software_piracy
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/1230250

DMCA Vs. The Sewing Underground !!!!
	the folks at monsterpatterns.com dumpster-dive to get
envelopes containing discontinued sewing patterns and
sell the envelopes via their website. The sewing
pattern company McCall invoked the DMCA to get the
site shut down. Monsterpatterns is now suing to
protect their 'fair use rights' to advertise and sell
the discarded patterns. You might recall that this
isn't the first time the sewing industry has cracked
down on bootlegging grandmas and their suppliers."

http://news.com.com/2009-1088-984352.html?tag=fd_rndm#38
	http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/5/prweb67370.php

http://archives.seul.org/freehaven/dev/Aug-2000/msg00003.html

SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence?
	"In this EETimes article SCO claims to have shown
their evidence to our independent analyst friends from
the Aberdeen Group. The evidence, all 80 lines of it,
allegedly even has identical comments."
	http://eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030606S0039
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6453

43 Million Americans Use P2P Software
	"If the NYTimes article is correct then somewhere
around 1 in 6 Americans apparently are unindicted
felons. In the eyes of the public file swapping is as
morally wrong as speeding on the NJ Turnpike. The rest
of the article talks about the RIAA's
carrot/stick/education approach and how they may find
themselves entering into negotiations for some forms
of file sharing. Also the EFF will be running ads in
Rolling Stone next month asking if enthusiasts are
tired of being treated like criminals."
	http://nytimes.com/2003/06/08/technology/08TUNE.html
	http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/17-18red.htm

UCITA Stalled At State Level
	"Four states have passed anti-UCITA laws and
Massachusetts may soon become the fifth. Meanwhile,
only two states have adopted the Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act, which gives software
vendors all the benefits and none of the burdens of
the consequences of publishing their software. The
details can be found at ComputerWorld and an opinion
piece by Frank Hayes can be found here."

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,81812,00.html

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,78567,00.html

Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code?
	"Apparently someone inside SCO has stated that
SCO(actually Caldera) copied Linux code into System V.
They did it to build what they now market as Linux
Kernel Personality - the ability to run Linux software
on their Unix. Now, the open source community(of
course they don't mention who) is jumping on this,
because they didn't return the changes to the OS
community or give the community credit. Of course, SCO
says it's a misunderstanding and, get this 'SCO also
never used any of the Linux kernel code.'"
	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2324214

Model End Vendor License Agreement 
	"Low End Mac is presenting this article as a humor
piece, but its vision of an End Vendor License
Agreement seems to be pretty well thought out, and one
that I wouldn't mind seeing in the real world."
	http://lowendmac.com/lite/03/0610.html

Who Opposes Open Source Software In Government?
	"Linux Journal is doing a story with a roundup of who
the players are that are opposing open source in
governments. The one I find interesting is the Gates
connection to BSA. But I think we all need to become
familiar with this round-up of special interest groups
not operating in our interests (as taxpayers)."
	http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6927

Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark
	"CNET News reports The Open Group is suing Apple over
unlicensed use of the Unix trademark, after Apple used
the term in conjunction with its Mac OS X marketing.
Apple, meanwhile, is countersuing to have the Unix
trademark declared invalid because the term has become
generic."
	http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1015814.html

SCO Gives Friday Deadline To IBM
	"Reuters is reporting that SCO is planning to revoke
IBM's license to Unix this Friday unless IBM settles
SCO's claim that parts of its Unix code are being used
in Linux. 'If we don't have a resolution by midnight
on Friday the 13th, the AIX world will be a different
place', SCO President and Chief Executive Darl McBride
told Reuters News. 'We've basically mapped out what we
will do. People will be running AIX without a valid
license.'"

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2915659
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/0019209

Red Hat License Challenged
	"David McNett has noticed an apparent discrepancy
between the Red Hat Linux EULA and the GPL. He has
written an open letter to the FSF asking for their
opinion on the matter. Does Red Hat have the right to
"audit your facilities and records" to ensure
compliance with their license?" McNett misreads the
Red Hat documents. Their contract is for the various
services, not the software, and for the services they
are entitled to demand whatever concessions they think
the market will bear.
	http://www.livejournal.com/users/nugget/42813.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1214244

Microsoft Flouting DOJ Settlement?
	"According to the Washington Post, Microsoft is not
adhering to the terms of its deal with the DOJ.
Specifically, there are allegations that it is "trying
to license key pieces of its technology at inflated
rates" and "thwarting its antitrust settlement with
the federal government". They're charging $100,000
just to see technical info about their communication
protocols, and you only get $50,000 back if you decide
you don't want to license them. Whoda thunk?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52423-2003Jun12.html?nav=hptoc_tn
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1234255

No Business Like SCO Business
	 Informationweek has a roundup. News.com has some
analysis of the legal case. SCO reiterates their
threat to revoke IBM's license. Reader hobsonchoice
sends a blurb: "Also more from analysts who saw
SCO/Linux code comparisons under NDA. Bill Claybrook,
of Aberdeen Group Inc., says SCO changed their story
to him about whether they had any "direct evidence"
that IBM copied any System V code into Linux. Laura
Didio of Yankee Group has answered some detailed
questions about her code review process. Lastly
Fujitsu Siemens have joined in the debate: they don't
think SCO's case is going anywhere." One observer of
the SCO case has compiled some notes about Caldera's
active participation in the IA-64 project. And look on
the bright side: if you follow the school of thought
that all publicity is good publicity, at least this
suit has gotten Linux mentioned in many places where
it normally wouldn't be.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300886
	http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1016020.html

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/12/HNscorevoke_1.html

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=627647250&fp=16&fpid=0

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/13/1055220751243.html
	http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1016377.html
	http://lwn.net/Comments/36053/

http://linux.com/pollBooth.pl?section=index&qid=1649&aid=-1
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1532217

European MP Responds on Software Patents
	"The Guardian newspaper has a contributed article
from the European politician Arlene McCarthy in which
she responds to a previous article in the same organ
by RMS and Nick Hill on the issue of software patents.
If the appalling mixture of misrepresentation, non
sequitur, solecism and faux-naivete does not make your
blood boil, you are a cold fish indeed."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,975126,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,970294,00.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1946243

IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline
	"IBM refused to settle with SCO and comply with their
deadline, expiring Friday the 13th. "We've got a
strong defense case, and we're going to fight it", IBM
representative is quoted."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/technology/14LINU.html?ex=1056254400?en=5dd43b69f5d1ef1c&ei=5058&partner=IWON
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1429236

Settling SCOres
	"The Inquirer is reporting that someone in Germany is
claiming to have viewed the SCO-alleged infringing
Linux source code without having to sign a NDA. The
person gives details about the code that was
presented, but the translation-by-software is
difficult to follow." The story also includes a link
to a human translation; maybe some Slashdot reader can
do better. Also in the news is a story about a kernel
developer getting uppity with SCO, as well he might.
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10013
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018

SCO terminates IBM's license
	"SCO has terminated IBM's license to use Unix code.
SCO is filing for an injunction that will require IBM
to cease all sale of AIX as well as accrue damages for
each day IBM continues to sell AIX."

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/news/articles.asp?guid=%7BB095053D-5814-4FF0-BD33-DC03CE5F4131%7D&newsid=805136133&symb=SCOX&sid=1453151

IBM Responds To SCO: Business As Usual
	statement from IBM on its decision not to bow to
SCO's demand that they stop shipping AIX. In a
statement this short, there's not much room for
weaselly language, but the even-shorter version is
this: "IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual
and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated."

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/16/2232255.shtml?tid=52

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/1940219&tid=88
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/2248200

Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source
Bill
	"The Age reports that South Australia has caused
eyebrows at the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC)
to be raised in concern, with the organisation writing
to Premier Mike Rann over a proposed Open Source
software bill. The ISC, by its own definition, is a
"global coalition of large and small companies
committed to advancing the concept that multiple
competing software markets should be allowed to
develop and flourish unimpeded by government
preference or mandate"."

http://softwarechoice.org/download_files/DearSouthAustraliaRann.pdf
	http://www.linuxsa.org.au/oss-bill/
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/0253255

SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples
Damages
	"This evening on C|Net contains three new items.
First, they've upped the damages they're seeking to $3
billion. Second, they claim that by making SMP
technology generally available through Linux, IBM
violated federal export controls and thus breached
their contract with SCO through committing an illegal
act. Finally, they elaborate on one specific
technology they claim rights to which IBM inserted
into the 2.5 kernel series -- the read-copy update
memory management features which went in at 2.5.43.
Unclear is why SCO thinks they have the rights to RCU,
since the technology was originally developed by
Sequent in the early 1990s."
	http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1017965.html
	http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcupdate.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/128249

EU Moves Towards Single European Patent Standard
	"A European Parliament committee Tuesday moved toward
setting the first pan-European standard for software
patents, but outlawed the U.S. practice of patenting
business methods, such as Amazon's one-click Internet
shopping. 'The European law sets the right benchmark
rather than the looser U.S. system,' said the director
of public policy for Europe at the Business Software
Alliance, which represents 20 software companies
including Microsoft and Apple. Amazon representatives
in Brussels declined to comment on the new European
legislation."
	http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030617/1229001026_2.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/1831233

Using Closed Standards To Pay For Open Ones
	"EGOVOS analyzes the recently passed South African
OSS plan and proposes a great way to fund Open Source
education and development until companies comply with
open standards. Microsoft pays a 10% penalty until
their products comply with open standards. That would
be billions of dollars to Open Source to compensate
for an unlevel playing field until it is leveled. All
the policy guidelines for governments are worth
reading. This looks like a workable plan from a
credible group." Reader johndiii clarifies: "From what
I have been able to see, the strategy document is
'proposed,' not 'recently passed,' and is not yet
official policy of the South African government."

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/17/1655215.shtml?tid=19
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/1431219

Europe, Free Speech, And The Internet
	"Declan McCullagh responds at CNET.com to a proposal
by the Council of Europe to require Internet sites to
publish replies by individuals whom the sites
criticize. This would apply to all web sites,
apparently, including blogs. Per McCullagh, the
Council's proposals do not have the force of law, but
often serve as the basis for new laws." Imagine the
chilling effect if McCullagh's own politechbot and
similar sites had to follow such rules.
	http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1017333.html
	http://politechbot.com/
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/1943251

Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking?
	"The Swedish Department of Justice has today proposed
a bill to be put into effect, if it passes Parliament,
on the 1st of January, 2004. It is in accordance to EU
directives, but will also criminalize the downloading
of material from the Internet without the explicit
permission of the copyright holder. Furthermore, it
will become illegal to break cryptos, circumvent copy
protection (mod chips et al), copy books, and as I
understand it, use software that is designed to help
with any of these tasks, and many other things." An
anonymous reader points to an English-language article
about this Swedish EUCD proposal, which also mentions
a hefty $4 levy on blank digital media such as
CD-ROMs.
	http://justitie.regeringen.se/inenglish/index.htm
	http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4190.cfm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/2328233

The Power Behind the SCO Nuisance
	"Forbes has a fairly detailed story about the sordid
history of The Canopy Group and all the various
companies they've sued -- Microsoft (who they beat)
and CA (this case is still pending), among them.
Before joining Caldera, Darl McBride sued IKON Office
Solutions, for whom he worked -- and won. And it also
seems that a bunch of Canopy power players also sit on
SCO's board of directors. The short summary is, 'these
guys are professional litigious bastards -- be
exceptionally wary.'" A local user's group is planning
a protest for tomorrow. Reader myst564 writes: "After
reading all of this SCO press I remembered that SCO
once offered up all of their 'Ancient UNIX' (their
words, not mine) source to the world while retaining
all copyrights (i.e, no OSS license). Interestingly
enough it WAS located here but isn't any longer: SCO's
Ancient Unix. What's more you can read about the
original release here at: Linux Today. I downloaded
the source myself way back then but never did anything
but delete it! Anyway, check out this comment. It's
interesting that this was predicted in 2000!"
	http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html

http://uug.byu.edu/pipermail/uug-list/2003-June/004484.html
	http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient_unix.html

http://features.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2000022200405NW

http://features.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-02-22-004-05-NW-0003
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1245254

UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL
	"ZDNet is reporting that a UK IT industry body backed
by Microsoft, IBM, Intel, BAE Systems and other
high-tech heavyweights has urged the UK government not
to commission open-source software, and particularly
not software covered by the General Public License.
According to Intellect, which lobbies for about 1,000
UK IT companies, the requirement of open-source
licences for software funded by the government could
have a negative impact on competition for contracts,
the quality of the resulting software and even the
confidentiality of government departments. In
particular, Intellect recommends that the government
drop the GNU General Public License (GPL), the licence
upon which the GNU/Linux operating system is based,
from its list of acceptable default licences for
government-funded software, and steer clear of the GPL
generally."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136285,00.html

http://www.intellectuk.org/publications/position_papers/OSS_Intellect_Position.pdf
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/197213

My Visit to SCO
	"I signed the SCO NDA and visited them to discuss
their claims against Linux. My essay about it is on
the Linux Journal web site. The short version is that
SCO's claims are unproven, as indeed I expected would
be the case before I went. The amount of information
they were willing to show me was extremely limited,
and did not by itself prove that their claims were
true, nor that their claims were false." Other
SCO-bits: Sun is doing their usual foot-in-mouth
routine, thinking that two FUDs makes a Solaris
purchase, or something like that. IBM is now joining
the contact the customers bandwagon. Eric Raymond has
been keeping himself busy - here's a story about him.
SCO hates BSD, too, but they're not taking it lying
down. And of course Cringley has his two cents.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6956&mode=thread&order=0
	http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10103
	http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&ncid=738&e=9&u=/pcworld/20030620/tc_pcworld/111257

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=8276/byt1055784622054/0616_marshall.html
	http://www.lemis.com/grog/sco-sontag-16jun2003.html

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030619.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/20/1829248

Legitimate uses for DeCSS
	"Interesting article at the Washington Post, which
among other things points out that DeCSS does have
valid uses, and that the industry's paranoia over
DeCSS is overblown." A reasonable mainstream summary
of all the DVD related legal hype. Interesting that
the libdvdcss folks have never had a bump with the
law, but instead DeCSS takes all the brunt even tho
nobody uses it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17791-2003Jun20.html?nav=hptoc_tn

SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo
	 "On Friday, June 20, the Provo Linux Users Group
decided to head on over to SCO's offices and hold a
protest; information on the event, including pictures
and press coverage, can be found on the PLUG page.
Among other things, the protesters claim that SCO
employes came out and joined the event holding
pre-prepared signs saying things like 'I love software
piracy' and 'Try communism - use Linux.'" There are
some funny shots linked here (thanks to reader lucif
latum). Daddio64 points to the press covereage in the
Deseret News and Provo Daily Herald.
	http://www.kuwan.net/scoAntiProtest/index.html

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510034420,00.html?

http://www.harktheherald.com/article.php?sid=86535&mode=thread&order=0

Piracy Deterrence and Education Act Introduced
	"Last Thursday in the U.S. Congress, H.R. 2517 was
quietly introduced and referred to the House Judiciary
Committee. The bill, authored by Lamar Smith (R-TX)
and co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA), directs the
FBI to develop methods of deterring copyright
violation through use of peer-to-peer networks,
including efforts to facilitate sharing information
about suspected violators amongst law enforcement
agencies. It also directs the Justice Department to
develop programs to educate the American public on why
copyright violation is bad. Berman, you may remember,
introduce a bill last year that would give the RIAA
and MPAA wide latitude to crack suspected violators'
computers. " Update: 06/23 17:03 GMT by S: We also
covered a variant of this story on Saturday.
	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.2517:
	http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2225871

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/190235&tid=123

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/21/2251246&tid=103

Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL
	"SCO has issued a letter saying SCO Linux customers
won't be sued. The same does not seem to apply if
using a non-SCO distribution such as RedHat."
LightSail points to the SCO letter itself, and raises
an interesting point: "If they approve the use of
'their' IP in Linux in a single kernel, then the GPL
holds that IP SCO allows to be used by a select few
must be freely released to any and all. It appears
that all Linux users everywhere were just given a
license to continued use of Linux even if SCO would
win their suit with IBM." And Haikuu writes "eWeek
recently posted an interview conducted by e-mail
exchange with Linus Torvalds regarding his recent move
to the OSDL and the SCO suit."

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10700830

http://www.caldera.com/scosource/letter_to_partners.html
	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1134271,00.asp
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/24/0237200

What is Open Source?
	"The Inquirer is running an article by Olliance about
"What is Open Source?" It appears to be the first of a
two-part series for managers about how to engage with
the open source community. The writers seem to know
their material. Are they on target or have they missed
something important? Do PHBs really need to read this
sort of introduction to get comfortable with the idea
of using Linux and other open source software?"
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10114
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/24/1631240

KaZaA Wants to Be An Official Content Distributor
	"Detroit News: Nikki Hemming, CEO of KaZaA, says
KaZaA wants to be the official online distributor for
the entertainment industry. 'Realize that this
technology is inexorable, and come to the table,' says
Hemming to our friends Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti."

http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0306/20/technology-197745.htm

http://www.business2.com/webguide/0,1660,71314,00.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/008200

RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD
	"ZD-Net has a commentary by Richard Stallman about
the SCO case against IBM, kind of. It does provide
some history on what the GNU organization did to
protect itself from such lawsuits. Favorite quote:
'Less evident is the harm it does by inciting
simplistic thinking: [Intellectual Property] lumps
together diverse laws--copyright law, patent law,
trademark law and others--which really have little in
common.'"

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914132,00.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1350256

Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress
	"In his blog yesterday Lawrence Lessig said
'...Congresswoman Lofgren (D-CA) and Congressman
Doolittle (R-CA) have agreed to introduce the Public
Domain Enhancement Act into Congress.' Today the
Eldred Act website features two press releases
announcing the act's introduction, as well as its
immediate support by '...the American Association of
Law Libraries, the American Library Association, and
the Association of Research Libraries...'" 

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_06.shtml#001315
	http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/000092.html
	http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/000093.html

Hall On Worldwide Open Source Movement
	"There's an article up on ZDNet summarizing an
interesting speech from Jon "Maddog" Hall about non-US
open-source, as well as protecting open-source from
'looters' - well worth a read: 'The open-source
development community is an international treasure and
should be protected as such, said veteran Linux
advocate Jon "Maddog" Hall, in a talk in Birmingham,
UK, that emphasized the role of open-source software
outside the United States.'"
	http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1020316.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/2353220

Law Prof Examines SCO Case
	"This law professor from the University of California
points out weakness in SCO's legal bluster, and
further takes a poke at closed software, for those
hungry for more SCO scraps. At the end, he references
Slashdot for more info ('itself a demonstration of the
power of dispersed individuals working together')."

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030626_chander.html

Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass
Slate has a piece about Harry Potter and copyright
worldwide that is a disguised call for copyright
reform. Well written, well argued, extremely good
argument, won't be picked up anywhere else.
	http://slate.msn.com/id/2084960/

More on European Software Patents
	"An article at ZDNet UK says that the EU bureaucrats
aren't even considering the numerous anti-software
patenting opinions out there. According to a
well-connected lobbyist group, they have determined
there will be patents, and the only question is what
kind."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2136651,00.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/27/1959215

$180 Million for Piracy Conspiracy
	"According to an AP story printed in the Orlando
Sentinel, Steven R. Frazier has been ordered to pay
$180 million restitution for attempting to sell a
device that would decrypt the satellite signals sent
into everyone's homes. In addition to spending the
next 5 years in Federal prison, Frazier will have to
pay $500 a month for the next 30,000 years, though no
one really expects him to live long enough to make all
the payments. That value is based on estimated loses
DirectTV and Echostar may have incurred had Frazier
been able to sell his devices. Being ordered to pay
restitution for actual damages is one thing, but
paying for some made up number of future damages?
Maybe if I catch someone trying to break into my car,
I can sue him for the damage he would have caused if
he succeeded..."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-locpayback28062803jun28,0,5719929.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/181227

Harry Potter and the Entertainment Industry
	"In a surprisingly insightful article entitled Harry
Crushes the Hulk, Frank Rich discusses how "Harry
Potter and the Order of the Pheonix" beat out "The
Hulk" and goes on to offer some insightfull and
interesting comments on demographics, digital media
piracy, file sharing and p2p networks, the iTunes
store, and more... His conclusion? "[Consumers] may
well be willing to pay for their entertainment — if
the quality is guaranteed and the price is fair."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/arts/29RICH.html?ex=1057464000&en=628bb9a64032eda2&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/2110201

Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux
	"Three days ago I accepted Linux into my life and
while I'm not yet a convert, the experience has shaken
my faith in Windows. It's hard to reconcile because
for nearly 20 years I've mostly stayed on the one true
Windows path."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3509550&thesection=technology&thesubsection=comment&thesecondsubsecti
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/1554201

Engaging with the OSS Community
	 "Olliance has the second of its Open Source articles
up at the Inquirer. It's called "Engaging with the
Open Source Community (Part Two)", and it explains the
different levels of involvement that companies can
have with Open Source. More education for managers,
and an outline of a corporate process for approaching
adoption and deployment of Linux and other Open Source
software."
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10222
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/1913235

EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules
	"The Register has an article discussing the
implications to the open source community and small
software businesses of the new software patent law to
be voted on tomorrow by the EU parliament. According
to the article, it is very likely the new patent law
will be accepted despite its grave consequences."
	http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31472.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/002211

TV Brick - Open Source TV Streaming?
	"Nexedi  has released the TV Brick - an open
source-based box for TV capture and streaming over the
Internet. Primarily targeted towards Japanese families
living in France (seeing that popular Japanese
channels like Yomiuri TV and NHK Sogo are unavailable
outside Japan), the idea is that is you plug one of
these boxes to a TV antenna and a broadband connection
in Japan, and the other to a broadband plug and a TV
in France; instant 'magic' happens and all the
goodness of Japanese TV is in your living room." We
also covered the OpenBrick project a few months back.
	http://www.nexedi.com/en/news/pr2

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/226254&tid=137

Bill Gates on Linux
	"USA Today had an interview with Bill Gates on june
the 30th. Gates seems to be considering Linux as a
passing thru competition just like OS/2., and That
Microsoft are the ones that keep pushing new
technologies."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-06-29-gates-linux_x.htm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1440202

OpenContent Closes Its Doors
	"After five years of pioneering the application of
open source principles to stuff other than software,
OpenContent is closing down. Project Lead David Wiley
provides a rationale for the closing on the website,
as well as a brief overview of the projects'
successes. Wiley has joined Creative Commons as
Project Lead for Educational Licensing."
	http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/3733
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1247224

A Critical Look at Trusted Computing
	"After just attending a two-week summer program on
the theoretical foundations of security (one of the
speakers was from Microsoft research), I have been
interested in trying to find out if the "trusted
computing" initiative was still alive. I got my answer
today in the New York Times from an article that was
fortunately rather critical of the concept."

http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/summerschool/summer03/

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/technology/30SECU.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/019236

EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping (badri, can we see
some shots ?)
	"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching an
ad campaign to counter the RIAA's lawsuits about file
swapping. There are more details available at the File
Sharing: It's Music To Our Ears subsite." The press
release kicking off this campaign says that "EFF's Let
the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the
RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to
defend peer-to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy
for individuals to write members of Congress."	
	http://www.eff.org/share
	http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030630_eff_pr.php
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/1652250

Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores?
	"According to a report from Tokyo via IOL, Japanese
publishers have launched a campaign to stop 'digital
shoplifters.' These 'digital shoplifters' are using
cellphones to photograph magazine pages in bookstores,
rather than buying them. 'Digital shoplifting is
becoming a big problem as camera-equipped mobile
handsets are spreading fast and their quality is
improving greatly,' said Kenji Takahashi, an official
at the Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Will
entry into a bookstore soon include a 'cell-phone
patdown?'"

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1056959460701B215

Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta
	" San Jose Mercury News has an interview with Linus.
He talks about about SCO vs IBM and gives his opinion
on Microsoft. He also shed light on his decision to
leave chip maker Transmeta for a Linux corporate
software consortium, the Open Source Development Lab."
	http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/6238207.htm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1728201

Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right
	"The Christian Science Monitor reports on
technological change in Estonia, where an enlightened
post-Soviet era government believes the Internet is
essential for life in the 21st century and backs that
up with legislation declaring Internet access is a
human right. Estonia is a country where hot, running
water was a luxury a decade ago. It's now a place
where farmers have broadband Internet, 80% of the
people use online banking, Internet usage and
broadband penetration rates are comparable to Western
Europe, and the government conducts most business
(meetings, votes, document reviews, etc.) virtually
through a system of networked computers. Not bad for a
country that only 10 years ago was a crumbling,
bankrupt mess with a network infrastructure to match."
	http://csmonitor.com/2003/0701/p07s01-woeu.html

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/1748224&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95

Freenet Creator Debates RIAA
	"Over at CNET News.com, there's a good coverage of a
debate between Ian Clarke of Freenet and Matt
Oppenheim of the RIAA." In discussing whether it's
"legal and moral to create and use Freenet", which is
"a radically decentralized network of file-sharing
nodes tied together with strong encryption", the
RIAA's Oppenheim suggests: "Other than the fact that
most infringers do not like to use Freenet because it
is too clunky for them to get their quick hit of free
music, it is no more of a threat than any of the
popular P2P services."

http://news.com.com/2010-1027_3-1023325.html?tag=fd_nc_1
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1733230

SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan
	"EETimes is carrying a new story about our good
friend Darl McBride, CEO of SCO. His latest escapades
include a trip to Japan in response to the CE Linux
Forum initiative undertaken by several big-name
Japanese tech firms such as Sony and Toshiba. He's
putting his famous tainted code dog-and-pony show on
parade, trying to influence some of the major CELF
founders."
	http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030703S0026
	http://www.celinuxforum.org/PressRelease/pr02.htm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1914248

9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use
	"A photographer named Leslie Kelly had sued Arriba
Soft Corporation for infringing his copyrights to
photos when they made thumbnails of his pictures and
stored them in a public image search engine. Today the
federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the
district court's ruling that making these thumbnail
copies of images for the search engine was 'fair use.'
Since the applicability of fair-use defenses to
copyright infringement touches on all kinds of common
uses of the Internet as well as rulemaking related to
the scope of the DMCA, this decision will probably
have an effect on the discussion. (Note that this case
was decided by a 3-judge panel and thus isn't binding
precedent.)" Note that the court also reversed in part
the lower court's ruling, specifically saying that the
lower court should not have ruled on "whether the
display of the larger image is a violation of Kelly's
exclusive right to publically display his works."

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/8E22982657C96BE188256D5C00518BF5/$file/0055521oop.pdf?openelement
	http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2141216

Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix - Check this out
	"Haven't seen this here yet, though I may have missed
it. Anyway... A group of Australian techies have put
together an analysis matrix of the likelyhood of each
SCO Unix claim being true, and what outcome would most
likely result if so. Puts a lot of the various recent
suppositions in one handy place."

http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/linux_vs_sco_matrix.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/182211

Open Source Law
	"The U.S. Supreme Court just announced its refusal to
review the 5th Circuit's en banc decision that there
can be no copyright of privately authored laws offered
to U.S. governmental bodies for adoption. The model
law itself may be copyrighted, but once it's adopted,
the law must be open source. The entire case is laid
out on Peter Veeck's page." Slashdot touched on this
before, but never really covered this dispute in
depth. Here's a nice legal summary of the case.
	http://regionalweb.texoma.net/cr/filings.htm
	http://www.gtwassociates.com/answers/veeck.htm
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/204225

Is Law Copyrighted?
	"There's an interesting tidbit here at the San Diego
Union-Tribune about a guy who posted his local
(Denison, TX) building code on the internet and
prompty got nasty-grams from copyright lawyers at the
Southern Building Code Congress International Inc. The
bill in question was copyrighted by the group before
it was sent to the local legislature, so the wording
of the law belongs to them. So far, two Federal courts
agree with the group. In the article, they seem to be
taking the Microsoft-esque view of 'Who would write
these things for free? Look at all the good it's
done!'" And since many laws are written wholly by
groups composed of non-legislators (the article lists
a few), disseminating them on the Internet is a
misdeed?

http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n13own.html

Open Source Organization Models Discussed
	"Harvard Business School has an article up discussing
The Organizational Model for Open Source. It has some
good points, and I think it sums up what many of us
know, but haven't quite been able to put into words
yet: 'People are intimately aware of the fact that too
much structure will disenfranchise the very people who
make the most successful open source projects
possible.'"

http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3582&t=technology

OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money
	"Just when you had heard enough, the ongoing
controversy about SCO vs. Linux has popped up over at
the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). According
to Eweek's story, the panelists agreed that SCO is
targeting companies like IBM in an attempt to raise
cash. Most importantly: "if a company is not after
money, suing is not the way to go.""
	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1188919,00.asp
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/1831258

Cringely On Electronic Tapping
	"Robert X. Cringely, the PBS one, has an editorial
discussing electronic wire-tapping and the Big Brother
concerns. There isn't any new information in the
article, but he does a nice summation of the state of
law enforcement today. This may be a good article to
show your family, friends and congressmen."

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030710.html

	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1423206

Evangelizing OSS in the Caribbean
	"Here is an article on NewsForge regarding
evangelizing OSS in the Caribbean. I'm wondering what
others think of the impact efforts like this may have
on software development jobs in the US. Is IT still a
viable field to get into and if so will it last?"
	http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2356241
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1635252

How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA?
	" if the facts are correct in this article, we're
talking about a price point that makes streaming radio
extremely inexpensive. There's a lot of worthless
spite in this article, but if you can look past that,
you might see something worth thinking about."
	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10452

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1348202&mode=thread&tid=149&tid=99

Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P
	 "Napster founder Sean Fanning is poised for a
comeback, seems the now 22 year old Fanning has
developed technology which creates "audio
fingerprinting" of individual tracks and compares them
against fingerprints in his firm's database to
determine legality. A fee may be set and collected on
a copyrighted track by its rightful owner. Fanning is
actively recruiting industry support as well as
pushing the idea to p2p services such as kazaa and
grokster. " This isn't exactly new technology, but
it's still interesting to see what Fanning is up to
these days besides movie cameos.

http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la-fi-fanning7jul07&section=/printstory
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1428219

DMCA-Alikes Sweep Europe
	"The number of European countries enacting their
ignorance of the sad experiences from Four Years under
the DMCA has just risen to 5, as the Upper House
(Bundesrat, incidentally) of the German Parliament on
Friday failed to veto (sorry, some press releases are
only available in heavily spin-doctored German
Legalese at this point in time) and is hence
considered to have consented to the adoption by the
Lower House (Bundestag) of a federal law implementing
the dreaded DMCA's European sibling known as EU
Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC." 

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0229253

DoJ's 'Anti-Piracy' Lawyers answer questions....
interesting. 
	they are the  'point people' for Federal criminal
actions against online file-traders and software
misapproprators. They know some Slashdot readers may
have little sympathy for what they do all day. Be that
as it may, this is a great chance to understand what
it's like on the enforcement side of the intellectual
property coin. 
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1325229

Linus says Linux IP is sound.
	"In an interview with CRN, Linus Torvalds says he's
confident there won't be any IP problems discovered in
Linux. In fact, Torvalds, says he was extra careful
with issues like the IBM Read Copy Update code."

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=43276

Freenet 0.5.2 Released - check this out. 
	"With the RIAA roaring to grab peer-to-peer users by
their IP addresses, Freenet - fully anonymized
production and consumption of content - is gaining
renewed attention. Articles in New Scientist, ZDNet
UK, Wired and CNET (and here) set a somewhat typical
context for Freenets major release 0.52. Significant
performance improvements through NIO-based messaging,
probabilistic caching etc. should provide increased
rest to Chinese dissidents, but may finally wake-up
the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim..." 
	http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/062503.asp

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993950

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0%2C%2Ct269-s2137474%2C00.html

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59448,00.html
	http://news.com.com/2100-1029-1023735.html
	http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1023325.html

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreenet-china.org%2F&lp=zh_en&tt=url
	http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1023325.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/1931225


House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony
	"Wired news has an article about a new bill that
would make it a felony to upload a file to a P2P
network." EFF has a copy of the bill online. Conyers
and Berman both get over a quarter of their campaign
funding from Hollywood, according to opensecrets.org. 
	http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030716_conyer-berman.php
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/1250203

Seminar On Details Of The GPL And Related Licenses
	"Given the recent confusion about LGPL on slashdot,
and the concern it raised for those convincing
corporate legal departments to adopt to Free Software,
perhaps your readers might be interested in FSF's
legal seminar on the GPL and related licenses. The
first one is in Silicon Valley, and if it is
successful, we hope to hold others in the next 8
months in New York City and Tokyo." Since the FSF and
the GNU project have long created and fought for
software that's shareable, Free, and Not UNIX, what's
taught at these seminars will probably differ sharply
from what you can hear at next Monday's SCO conference
call on the "IBM lawsuit, UNIX Ownership and
Copyrights."
	http://patron.fsf.org/course-offering.html
	http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=114097
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1835252

Microsoft Names Linux as Number 2 Risk
	"Microsoft has officially moved Linux up to the
Number 2 Risk to the company (With Economic
Environment at No. 1). Bill Gates has taken the threat
very seriously, and has identified Linux and
non-commercial software as 'out there and very
pervasive.' In response, Microsoft has dropped the
price of Windows CE and opened the embedded OS to
developers. This will not only allow developers to
view and modify CE, but also distribute software
incorporated to the modified code."

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800942
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1321257

Deep Linking Legal in Germany
	"German news site Heise Online reports a recent
decision of the Bundesgerichtshof, the highest court
in Germany: Deep linking is not illegal. Newspaper
company Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt had sued the news
search engine Paperboy for deep linking to their
articles. According to the Bundesgerichtshof, the
public interest in a well-working Internet takes
precedence over the commercial interests of the
newspaper company, even if the advertizing of the
company is bypassed. The Bundesgerichtshof has
clarified that users can access any page if they know
the URL, and deep linking is just a technical
simplification for entering the URL manually. 
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/1451239

SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview
	"It seems that SCO is continuing to build up its case
for world domination, as today it was awarded U.S.
copyright registrations for UNIX System V source code
by the U.S. Copyright Office. Shares are up 20%,
Novell is nowhere to be found, and SCO is releasing
binary, run-only Linux licensing. You can read all
about it over in their press release." C|Net is also
running an interview with McBride.
	http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html
	http://news.com.com/1601-2-1027557.html
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240

Embarrassing Governments Into Adopting Open Source
	"An effort is currently underway to embarrass the
Australian Federal Government into adopting open
source software. As this story explains, the
Australian Democrats have put questions on notice in
Parliament that will require all government ministers
to disclose how much money their departments spend on
Microsoft products each year. The idea is to force
open source issues to the fore by showing just how
much money Microsoft receives from the government. It
could be a smart approach - the average taxpayer knows
little or nothing about OSS, but will rapidly form and
express vocal opinions about the government wasting
money. The article also mentions that a bill may be
introduced to Federal Parliament to mandate the
consideration of open source solutions (you may
remember this story about an Australian state trying
to introduce similar legislation). Some quotes from
the article: "What the country doesn't need is to be
tied into a profit-maximising licensing system, and
the way to combat that is to get government to break
out of the paradigm." On the other hand, the (right
wing) Liberal Party criticises suggestions that use of
open source should be compulsory as "hi-tech
affirmative action.""

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6788724%255E15306,00.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/0253255&tid=185
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0433236

SCO Extorting Unixware Licenses to Linux Users?
	SCO will sell you Unixware if you want to
"Legitimize" your usage of Linux at your company. If
you buy the license, you will be held blameless for
your transgressions against SCO! Pricing has yet to be
determined for the special licenses, but I suspect
that for any value greater than zero, there are going
to be a fair number of angry users.
	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1200014,00.asp

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