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Oregon Attorney General releases "copyrighted" Public Meeting Manual, will hold
hearings on whether Oregon law is copyrighted
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| People may remember there has been a bit
| of a spat over the Oregon Attorney
| General's Public Meeting Manual. This is
| part of a series of issues in the state of
| Oregon over the question of who may copy
| and public the law of the land.
|
| I'm pleased to report that Attorney
| General John Kroger today released that
| manual, appointed a special Deputy Counsel
| to handle these kinds of transparency
| issues, and announced a set of hearings
| about the issues involved.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/02/oregon-attorney-gene.html
DOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public Court Documents
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| The federal court system charged the
| Department of Justice more than $4 million
| in 2009 for access to its electronic court
| filing system, which is composed entirely
| of documents in the public domain.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/doj-pacer/
Defense Dept. pulls software over privacy issues
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| The Department of Defense has pulled a
| parental control product from its online
| store serving military families after
| learning that the company collects
| childrens' data, according to documents
| the Electronic Privacy Information Center
| (EPIC) obtained from the government
| agency.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10408809-245.html
Guilt Upon Accusation: how New Zealanders stopped an unfair copyright law
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| Kiwiright tells the story of the Internet
| Blackout, spearheaded by the Creative
| Freedom Foundation. Hundreds of thousands
| of people protested against the
| controversial law change, Section 92A of
| the Copyright Ammendment Act, that would
| allow copyright holders to seek
| disconnection of Internet usersâ accounts
| simply on accusation of a breach of
| copyright law without a trial.
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http://creativefreedom.org.nz/forum/topic.php?id=442
Recent:
Yes vote very important, says Microsoft chief
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| BUSINESS GROUPS: THE MICROSOFT executive who runs the software
| companyâs business outside of the US and Canada is the latest
| high-profile business leader to come out in favour of passing the
| Lisbon Treaty.
|
| Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, said
| it was âvery importantâ not just for Ireland but for Europe as a
| whole that the treaty is ratified.
|
| âWe have a shift of power between China, Brazil, the Indias of the
| world and the US,â said Mr Courtois. âEurope needs to step up both
| economically speaking and politically speaking. That treaty has to
| be clearly embodied and move on with all the citizens in Europe.â
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0930/1224255526136.html
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