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FOS Newsletter, 5/6/02 (Part 2)
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Peter Suber
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May 06, 2002 13:22 PDT
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Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
May 6, 2002
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This is Part 2 of a two-part mailing.
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Following up (new developments in continuing stories)
To see past coverage of these stories in FOSN, use the search engine at the
FOSN archive.
http://www.topica.com/lists/suber-fos/read
* More on the CBDTPA
Edmund Sanders reports in the _Los Angeles Times_ that Hollywood's support
for the CBDTPA is not monolithic. Its apparent unity until now was a
carefully negotiated, tactical display hiding deep disagreements about one
another's turf advantages as well as the CBDTPA. Their divisions are
starting to emerge and may hinder the lobbying effort for the CBDTPA.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z127358C
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has come out
against the CBDTPA. It has fought digital piracy longer than Hollywood,
but argues that CBDTPA is a dangerous solution to the
problem. (PS: SIIA's open letter makes such a good case that one is
tempted to overlook the fact that it is a staunch opponent of
government-subsidized FOS and lobbied Congress to kill the funds for
PubScience. See FOS for 7/30/01.)
http://www.siia.net/sharedcontent/govt/issues/ip/letter4-30-02.html
(Thanks to Politech.)
Mike Goodwin in _ReasonOnline_ has a long and careful analysis of the two
industries clashing over the CBDTPA (so it's odd that he still calls it the
SSSCA). He points out that we know the clashing industry positions much
better than we know the positions of ordinary PC users and music/film
consumers.
http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.mg.hollywood.shtml
(Thanks to Freedom News.)
Hiawatha Bray reviews Gateway's campaign against the CBDTPA and the music
industry's angry response.
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/upgrade/2002/0415.html
Roger Parloff loves the DMCA and hates the CBDTPA. Perhaps his critique of
the CBDTPA, then, will be more persuasive to pro-Disney senators than the
critiques friendlier to digital freedom. "Though my guess is that creators
can adequately protect their digital wares without legislation of this
sort, if events should prove me wrong, the Hollings legislation should
still be defeated. If controlling digital property requires government
intervention on this scale, then there should be no such control. Digital
technology will have rebuffed the legal system's attempts to tame it,
anti-protectionists will have won the war, and it will be time for
protectionists like me to raise the white flag. We can't imperil
everyone's freedom and prosperity in a quixotic quest. The game has to end
somewhere."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z14A56DC
* More on the DMCA
The EFF has released a report on how the DMCA has been used to chill free
speech, suppress scientific research, deny fair-use rights, and interfere
with business competition.
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20020503_dmca_consequences.pdf
Colin McMillen, a student at the University of Minnesota, has put online
his account of how the DMCA blocked his research into the scheduling of
real-time computer systems.
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mcmillen/dmca/
(Thanks to C-FIT.)
Eliot Van Buskirk has interviewed Rep. Rick Boucher, the most active
Congressional defender of fair-use rights and critic of the DMCA and
CBDTPA. Here's Part One of the interview. Part Two comes out in two weeks.
http://electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-3219397-8-9792032-1.html
(Thanks to C-FIT.)
Rep. Rick Boucher has been collecting public comments on the DMCA since
last summer in preparation for a bill to amend it. He now says that he's
ready and will submit his bill within a month. His amendment will revise
the anti-circumvention clause so that it only prohibits circumvention with
the intent to infringe. The effect will be to legalize circumvention for
fair use, research, personal back-ups, and migrating digital files to new
computers.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52298,00.html
* More on the Elcomsoft/Sklyarov case
In a recent interview, Elcomsoft CEO Alexander Katalov defended his company
and the software that allegedly violates the DMCA. He described the DMCA
as a law that makes it "illegal to produce legal programs". On May 6, the
judge will either grant one of Elcomsoft's two motions to dismiss the
charges or set a trial date.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-894287.html
* More on the problem of excessive accessibility
The state of New York has created a commission to study the privacy
problems created by making court case files freely available on the
internet. These files include dockets, court orders, and judicial
opinions, but not any sealed files which have traditionally been kept from
the public. The problems are not created by making private files public,
but by making public files easy to find and read rather than
difficult. The chairman of the commission is Floyd Abrams, the First
Amendment scholar.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D249140D
President Bush has stored his Texas gubernatorial records in his father's
presidential library, which is administered by the National Archives. The
National Archives can take 60-90 days to reply to requests for information
from the records, e.g. about Bush's ties to Enron. The open-record laws in
Texas require a reply within 10 days. The snag is that the National
Archives does not appear to be subject to Texas law, which is just the way
the President likes it. Last week the Texas Attorney General ruled that
Texas law, and the 10 day rule, do apply. No word yet on whether the
President would appeal.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2B1311D
(Thanks to ResearchBuzz.)
* More on government-ordered purges of web content to keep it from terrorists
Marydee Ojala points out (once again) that deleting internet content from
its home site or official source does not delete all copies from the
internet. So the practice has the evil intent of censorship without any of
the intended benefits. She criticizes the Federation of American
Scientists, "an organization dedicated to unfettered access to
information", for acquiescing in the purge of its site (FOSN for
3/4/02). "Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be
public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online
professionals."
http://www.infotoday.com/online/may02/HomePage.htm
* More on the restrictive new EU Copyright Directive
Alan Cox is awakening Linux users to the prospect of European variations on
the DMCA and the Sklyarov prosecution.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24813.html
* More on GeekPac and the Open Technology Consortium
Hal Plotkin in the _San Francisco Gate_ introduces GeekPac and the OTC to
the general public and gives them some advice on how to spend their money.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K4C5151C
(Thanks to C-FIT.)
* More evidence that the net doesn't intrinsically resist censorship
Andrew Stroehlein pulls together much of the current evidence for AlterNet.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12965
(Thanks to Red Rock Eater.)
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Catching up (old news I should have discovered earlier)
* On February 12, the Professional Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of
the AAP announced its awards for 2002. The PSP makes annual awards in 32
categories, including six for digital media. The Best Internet-Based
Electronic Product in Math/Science was Patty's Industrial Hygiene and
Toxicology Online from John Wiley & Sons (not free). In the counterpart
category for the social sciences and humanities, no award was given in
2002. Likewise, no award was given in any of the remaining categories for
digital media. (PS: We accept that AAP will not recognize free online
resources. But should we infer that once these are put to one side, the
quality of remaining digital and online resources is not worth
recognizing? If not, then what should we infer?)
http://www.pspcentral.org/awards/winners_2001.doc
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Correction
* In my last issue I said I couldn't find the 2002 UKSG International
Research Award winners on the web. Ross MacIntyre has pointed me in the
right direction. Thanks, Ross.
http://www.uksg.org/events/research_awards.html
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Conferences
If you plan to attend one of the following conferences, please share your
observations with us through our discussion forum. (Conferences marked by
two asterisks are new since the last issue.)
* Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/pakdd02/
Taipei, May 6-8
* DLM-Forum 2002. Access and Preservation of Electronic Information. Best
Practices and Solutions.
http://europa.eu.int/historical_archives/dlm_forum/doc/forum2002announcementrev2.pdf
http://www.dlmforum2002.org/angles/inscripcions.htm
Barcelona, May 7-8
** Protecting the Information Commons: Asserting the Public Interest in
Copyright Law and Digital Infrastructure
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K20932BC
Washington, D.C., May 10
* NISO/DLF Workshop on Standards for Electronic Resource Management
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/NISO-DLF-wkshp.html
Chicago, May 10
* ContentWorld 2002 [mostly for commercial content]
http://www.contentworld.com/conference/2002conference/index.html
San Jose, California, May 13-16
* Open Archives Forum Workshop
http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/
Pisa, May 13-14
* Copyright for Beginners [among librarians and information professionals]
http://www.cilip.org.uk/employ/c0937.html
London, May 15
* A Day in the Life of an [Electronic] Journal Publisher
http://www.uksg.org/conferences/2002/16_05_02.html
Chichester, May 16
* Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change
http://cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/
Seattle, May 16-19
* National Conference for Digital Government Research
http://www.dgrc.org/dgrc/dgo2002/
Los Angeles, May 19-22
* Libraries in the Digital Age 2002
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida/
Dubrovnik, May 21-26
* Taking the Plunge: Moving from Print to Electronic Journals
http://www.uksg.org/conferences/2002/22_05_02.html
London, May 22
** Online Submission and Peer Review. Sponsored by the Journals Committee
of the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of the AAP.
http://www.pspcentral.org/committees/journals/journals_flyer.doc
New York, May 22
* CAiSE '02. Advanced Information Systems Engineering
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/caise02/
Toronto, May 27-31
* Workshop on Personalization Techniques in Electronic Publishing on the
Web: Trends and Perspectives
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~mizzaro/AH2002/
Malaga, Spain, May 28
* Society for Scholarly Publishing (AAP)
http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/index.cfm?Cat=5
Boston, May 29-31
* Fair Use Seminar
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaID=21113
Portland, Oregon, May 30
* Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections
http://www.nedcc.org/owol/owol1.htm
Lexington, Massachusetts, May 30-31
* Multimedia Content and Tools: Towards Information and Knowledge Systems
http://www.elpub.org/agenda23.htm
London, May 30-31
* Advancing Knowledge: Expanding Horizons for Information Science
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/cais-acsi2002/
Toronto, May 30 - June 1
* Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2002
http://ce.byu.edu/cw/etd2002/
Provo, Utah, May 30 - June 1
* International Association of Technological University Libraries Annual
Conference: Partnerships, Consortia, and 21st Century Library Science
http://www.iatul.org/
Kansas City, June 2-6
* Digital Behavior: European Forum on Digital Content Creation,
Management, and Distribution
http://www.digi-b.de/
Cologne, June 4-8
* DELOS Workshop on Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds,
Measurements, and Metrics
http://www.sztaki.hu/conferences/deval/
Budapest, June 6-7
* Social Implicatoins of Information and Communication Technology
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/herkert/istas02.html
Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6-8
* Electronic Resources and the Social Role of Libraries in the Future
http://www.iliac.org/crimea2002/
Sudak, Ukraine, June 8-16
* First International Semantic Web Conference
http://iswc.semanticweb.org/
Sardinia, June 9-12
* Frontiers of Ownership in the Digital Economy: Information Patents,
Database Protection and the Politics of Knowledge
http://cip.umd.edu/IFRI.htm
Paris, June 10-11
* IASSIST 2002: Accelerating Access, Collaboration, and Dissemination
http://ropercenter.uconn.edu/iassist2002/
June 10-15
* The Commons in an Age of Globalisation. Ninth Biennial Conference of the
International Association for the Study of Common Property
http://www.iascp2002.org/
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, June 17-21
* Informing Science and IT Education
http://is2002.com/
Cork, June 19-21
* 8th International Conference of European University Information Systems
http://www.fe.up.pt/eunis2002/
Porto, June 19-22
* Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers: Exploiting the Online Environment for
Maximum Advantage
http://www.ukolug.org.uk/meetings/meetings.htm#conf
Birmingham, June 20-21
* Transforming Serials: The Revolution Continues
http://www.nasig.org/wm/
Williamsburg, Virginia, June 20-23
* Choices and Strategies for Preservation of the Collective Memory
http://archives.dobbiaco2002.it/convegno-e.htm
Bolzano, Italy, June 25-29
* CIG Seminar: REVEALed: The Truth Behind the National Database of
Resources in Accessible Formats
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/cig-2002.html
London, June 26
* 4th International JISC/CNI Conference
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2002/
Edinburgh, June 26-27
* Digitisation Summer School for Cultural Heritage Professionals
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS02/
Glasgow, June 30 - July 5
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