INLS050 Fall 2005
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Policy items for information professionals to consider
01 Sep 2005 Ten Commandments Of Computer Ethics Created by the Computer Ethics Institute at the Brookings Institution
06 Sep 2005 Association for Computing Machinery Student Member Center if you are serious about an interest in computers and the uses to which they may be put, consider joining ACM
  SIGOPS one of many Special Interest Groups, SIGOPS is the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems 
08 Sep 2005 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility "a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology … a public interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society"
13 Sep 2005 Bush administration to keep control of internet's central computers  Gary Younge, The Guardian, 02 Jul 2005
15 Sep 2005 Electronic Freedom Foundation "EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights."
20 Sep 2005 In Canada: Cache a page, go to jail? by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, 19 July 2005
22 Sep 2005 Lawrence Lessig someone to pay attention to; a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge.
27 Sep 2005 Let’s not forget 10 September 2001 a comment on the Internet under surveillance by Julien Pain, Internet Freedom editor, Reporters Without Borders, 22 June 2004
29 Sep 2005 What Does the TEACH Act Say? "it is not copyright infringement for teachers and students at an accredited, nonprofit educational institution to transmit performances and displays of copyrighted works as part of a course if certain conditions are met. "
04 Oct 2005 A Taste of Our Own Poison Lawrence Lessig on evolving concepts of intellectual property rights, in Wired Magazine, January 2004
06 Oct 2005 The eDoc server of the Max Planck Society "Via eDoc, scientists can make their work openly accessible online with the technological and institutional backing of the Max Planck Society."
11 Oct 2005 Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying Christopher T. Heun, InternetWeek, 2 Sep 2005
  From Pokemon®to  Picasso, Art Rights and Wrongs This site was created by elementary school students.
13 Oct 2005 Wi-Fi Liability: Potential Legal Risks in Accessing and Operating Wireless Internet Robert V. Hale II, Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 21, p. 543
  Assessing Liability? Trespass on (Municipal) Wi-Fi Networks Kent Lassman, The Progress and Freedom Foundation, 14 Jun 2005
  FAQ: Wi-Fi mooching and the law Declan McCullagh, TechRepublic, 8 Jul 2005
18 Oct 2005 How To Steal Wi-Fi; And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours. Paul Boutin, Slate, 18 Nov 2004
25 Oct 2005 Computational and Electrical Grids Compared Paul Shread, GridComputingPlanet.com, 30 Aug 2002
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27 Oct 2005 Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use the current issue of the Economist has a long article on the changing role of copyright. In this atmosphere, it might be well to look at a basic point.
01 Nov 2005  University Procedure on Dealing with Possible Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights know what your University will do for you, or to you
03 Nov 2005 University Committee on Copyright resources for your use
08 Nov 2005 Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, (DOD-5200.28-STD) "First published in 1983, and known as the Orange Book, this is the de facto standard for computer security today."
10 Nov 2005 Access denied  Rafael Behr, the Observer, 11 Sep 2005
15 Nov 2005 Integrity in Science Database by the Center for Science in the Public Interest
17 Nov 2005 UN debut for $100 laptop for poor Jo Twist, BBC News technology reporter in Tunis, 17 Nov 2005
22 Nov 2005 Books for Lending, Data for Taking Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times, 20 Nov 2005; is this the new information delivery model? Can it be a business model?
01 Dec 2005 Create your own blog, remain anonymous and get round censorship ! from Reporters sans frontières.  There are lots of bloggers out there.
06 Dec 2005 Bush's Speech on Iraq War Echoes Voice of an Analyst again uninteresting except for the comment that the government is still releasing information they don't mean to because they don't understand the tool.  See the end of the first page:

The role of Dr. Feaver in preparing the strategy document came to light through a quirk of technology. In a portion of the document usually hidden from public view but accessible with a few keystrokes, the plan posted on the White House Web site showed the document's originator, or "author" in the software's designation, to be "feaver-p."