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“A recent note on the govdoc-l mailing list provides a glimpse of the government restricting access to government information in the digital environment.

“The message is an invitation to review Library of Congress Subject Headings, 28th edition (‘e-LCSH‘).

“‘The Government Printing Office (GPO) and Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) are investigating options for electronic dissemination of CDS cataloging publications to federal depository libraries’ but notes that ‘the Library of Congress Subject

Headings is a CDS sale product for which costs must be recovered.'”

Free Government Information. GPO Details Onerous Restrictions on Digital Materials. Oct. 6, 2005.

See also:

Nathaniel Kraft. Review of E-LCSH. Oct. 5, 2005.

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“Dear Recording Industry,

“You’re being had.

“Online music sales have soared. Millions of consumers are discovering the convenience of buying music online. There’s just one problem: if you don’t change your strategy, you’re going to give the store away to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. His iTunes Music Store is the industry leader, and thanks to digital rights management (DRM) technology, every customer who buys your products from the iTunes Music Store becomes locked into Apple products. If that’s not changed, that will soon make Steve Jobs the most powerful man in your industry.”

Brainwash. The Recording Industry’s New Clothes. Oct. 9, 2005.

“On Oct. 3, as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. presided over his first day at the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush was in the West Wing introducing the woman who might soon take her own seat on the court — White House Counsel Harriet Miers.

“One segment of American society is cheering: Big Business. The addition of Roberts, who spent years as a corporate litigator, was heartening to them. The prospect of Miers, who has defended the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Walt Disney Co. and has been a leading advocate for tort reform, has many executives downright giddy.”

Lorraine Woellert and Richard S. Dunham. Business May Get More Days In Court. BusinessWeek Online. Oct. 17, 2005.

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"Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server
licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software
on one physical server for the same price.

"Virtualization involves the use of server software in the abstract,
rather than a specific machine, and flows from hardware advances that
allow multi-core processing and enhanced capability to run these
‘virtual’ servers simultaneously.

"Industry analysts — who had mixed
reactions to the Microsoft licensing move — have long warned that with
dual-core, or other multi-core processors and increased virtualization,
companies face higher costs through software licensing."

Jay Leman. Microsoft Rolls Out Virtualized Licensing. TechNewsWorld. Oct. 10, 2005.

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is co-sponsoring the First Annual P2P Litigation Summit, to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005, at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.

The daylong conference brings together public and private defense attorneys, clients, investigators, advocates, and academics to discuss the latest developments in peer-to-peer litigation.

• How do the RIAA and MPAA go about identifying plaintiffs?
• What are the most effective legal strategies and tactics?
• Is it better to settle immediately, or fight it out in the courts?
• How is this impacting the individuals sued? What is the role of ISPs in this quagmire?
• Should Congress step in and, if so, what legislation is needed?
• Are there other ways to compensate authors for their works?

First Annual P2P Litigation Summit

Chicago, Illinois

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Northwestern University School of Law

Lincoln Hall

357 East Chicago Avenue

Chicago, IL 60611

Contact: Katherine Mudd

Phone: (773) 588-5410

Email: katherine@redmonarch.com

For more information, see EFF’s sign up form.

“Google’s plan to create an index of millions of books has got them into legal trouble, but technology analyst Bill Thompson thinks they should press on despite the lawsuits.”

BBC News. Defending Google’s Licence to Print. Oct. 10, 2005.

See also:

CopyCense. Google Shouldn’t Punt on Litigation. Oct. 4, 2005.

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

"A court decision Friday renewed the possibility that service to BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices might be cut off for most users in the United States.

"The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington rejected a request by Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, to rehear its appeal of a patent infringement case brought by NTP Inc., the patent holder. A three-judge panel of the court ruled in August that Research in Motion had violated seven of NTP’s patents."

Ian Austen. Court Ruling in BlackBerry Case Puts Service to U.S. Users at Risk. The New York Times. Oct. 8, 2005.

Update: Red Herring. RIM BlackBerry Threatened. Oct. 10, 2005.

(Editor’s Note: The Times allows free access to their stories on the Web for seven days before sending the stories to the paper’s fee-based Archive.)

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.