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RAIN 9/05 Part 2: DMCA, 'swamped by paperwork", e-evidence



There are 14 stories in this posting.

National Post 9/04/01
Auditor blasts shoddy records at Foreign Affairs
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010904/683
183.html

by Jim Bronskill
Southam News
OTTAWA - Poor record-keeping practices at Foreign Affairs are endangering
the federal department's ability to handle complex policy issues, an
internal audit reveals.
Chronic difficulties in promptly locating documents also mean members of the
public who seek department records under the Access to Information Act are
being shortchanged, says the recently completed audit.


Orlando Sentinel 9/4/01
Opinion: In Florida, do voting rights carry responsibilities
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edptrus04090401sep04.story?c
oll=orl%2Dopinion%2Dheadlines

by Tait Trussell
What responsibilities, if any, should a Florida voter have?
Should a voter know anything about the candidates or the election issues,
for instance?
The Florida Legislature made such a requirement part of the Florida Election
Reform Act of 2001. But the law has now run smack into a roadblock set up by
the U.S. Justice Department.


Business Courier 9/3/01
P&G, Unilever continue talks on spying settlement
http://cincinnati.bcentral.com/cincinnati/stories/2001/09/03/daily1.html

Procter & Gamble Co. and Unilever are expected to resume settlement talks
today concerning P&G's corporate espionage program that delved into
Unilever's hair-care operations.
Last week, Cincinnati-based P&G admitted to spying on hair-care competitors,
specifically Unilever, and said that, while the company did nothing illegal,
the program violated its own business policies.



Salon.com 8/31/01
Copywrong?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/31/dmca_report/print.html

by Damien Cave
For computer geeks and civil libertarians, the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act is one of the most despised laws of the land. But the 3-year-old law
passed a major test on Wednesday: To the dismay of critics, the U.S.
Copyright Office evaluated the effects of the DMCA without calling for a
complete revision.
Specifically, the 200-page study judged whether the new Net-focused law
violated two relevant sections of offline copyright law: the doctrine of
"first sale," or the right to resell or make personal copies of a
copyrighted work without a publisher's permission; as well as a copyright
law that permits the owner of a computer program to make a backup copy.


Fort Worth Star-Telegram 9/4/01
Denton County works to rid courts of language barrier
http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/09/04/state/fw010413-090
4-XB001-courts.htm

by Ben Tinsley
DENTON _ Spanish-speaking defendants will soon no longer have to rely on
translators or guesswork to understand plea agreement forms in Denton
County.
The county Spanish Translation Committee plans to print in Spanish the
paperwork, which explains a criminal charge and designates a plea. Because
of complex legal points that must be conveyed to a defendant, the documents
are among the most difficult to translate, said Agnes Mangual,
administrative assistant for the county Information Services Department.



Reuters 9/4/01
Swamped Mellon staff hid IRS tax returns
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010904/bs/financial_mellon_dc_2.html

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Reuters) - Mellon Financial Corp. (NYSE:MEL - news) on
Tuesday said a scandal involving tens of thousands of missing tax returns
was apparently caused by employees who hid documents because they were
overwhelmed by paperwork.
``As best as we know, they did this because they felt they were behind in
their work in processing IRS returns,'' Mellon Chief Executive Martin
McGuinn wrote in a letter to employees. ''Their actions blatantly violated
our long-established, clearly stated policies.''



Dallas Morning News 9/4/01
For some, Net puts library on shelf
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/461784_internetkids_0.html

by Joshua Benton
It was while listening to a longish church sermon one Sunday in 1876 that
librarian Melvil Dewey had his moment of genius. "I jumpt in my seat and
came near shouting 'Eureka!' " he wrote later, marveling at the "absolute
simplicity" of his idea.
But for many of today's teenagers, the Dewey Decimal System sits squarely in
the ash bin of history, right next to the Victrola and the Model T.
Libraries, once the great storehouses of academic knowledge, are coming in
second to search engines.


Dallas Morning News 9/4/01
Teaming up against cybercrime
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/461795_cybercrime_04m.html

by Tim Wyatt
The struggle to solve computer-based crimes in Dallas County is getting an
upgrade.
With growing caseloads of so-called cybercrime, Dallas police and the
district attorney's office have pooled resources and expertise to provide
police with the high-tech tools to thwart online stalkers, con artists,
destructive hackers, identity thieves and industrial spies.



The Oakland Press 9/4/01
City Council members hook into cyber world
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2306839&BRD=982&PAG=461&dept_id=12
9879&rfi=6

by Robert Carr
E-mail, laptops and other state-of-the-art technological advances are making
their way not only into classrooms, businesses and home offices, but into
city halls.
Many elected officials say it has been a long time coming - they're still
using tools that were considered innovations decades ago.
For many, the technology craze offers easier access to public information
and saves the equivalent of entire forests by eliminating excessive paper
copying of documents.



Washington Post 8/30/01
The Wizard's 'Star Search'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16653-2001Aug29.html

by Tim Page
Thomas Alva Edison may have invented the phonograph, but he will never be
remembered as one of the great record executives. In the decades after he
made his first wax cylinder (reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into a
primitive "talking machine" in 1877) Edison watched as upstart companies
such as Victor and then Columbia eclipsed his own label in sales, prestige
and artistic merit.



New York Times 9/4/01
Using software to sniff out electronic evidence
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/technology/04DISC.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Jonathan D. Glater
In building the government's antitrust case against Microsoft (news/quote),
prosecutors relied in part on internal company e-mail, including several
messages sent by William H. Gates, then the chief executive.
"Winning Internet browser share is a very, very important goal for us," he
wrote at one point. "Internet Explorer will be distributed every way we
can," he said in another e-mail.



Wall Street Journal 9/4/01
Commentary: Privacy on Trial
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB999557034770237386.htm

by Alex Kozinski
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons maintains the following sign next to all
telephones used by inmates:
"The Bureau of Prisons reserves the authority to monitor conversations on
the telephone. Your use of institutional telephones constitutes consent to
this monitoring. . . ."




Washington Post 8/23/01
Youths rooted in history
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49332-2001Aug22.html

by Laura Sessions Stepp
With an archivist for a mother, Emily Reid has grown up immersed in other
people's history. She traipsed through Tennessee cemeteries at the age of 3
with her mother. As soon as she could read, her mom, Yolanda, taught her to
look up other people's birth and death certificates on microfilm.
It wasn't until she came across the name William Fuqua, though, that history
came alive for Emily, now a high school senior living north of Nashville.
Assigned as a freshman to research her family tree, she discovered that she
was related, on her father's side, to Fuqua, a French Huguenot farmer.




Wired 8/30/01
No need to alter DMCA -yet
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46440,00.html

Reuters
WASHINGTON -- A study released on Wednesday on how revised U.S. copyright
law is working in the digital age recommends some legislative changes to
clarify fair use by purchasers of legal copies.
But the U.S. Copyright Office study did not find sufficient evidence for a
digital provision in that part of traditional copyright law that allows the
owner of a legal copy of a work to sell or give it away.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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