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Senator John Ensign will serve as Chairman of the task force. The following senators will make up the task force’s membership: • Wayne Allard – Colorado • George Allen – Virginia • Robert Bennett – Utah • Sam Brownback – Kansas • Jim Bunning – Kentucky • Conrad Burns – Montana • Michael Crapo – […]
The group, which administers the program, attributes this decline to its increased vigilance and warnings concerning waste, fraud, and abuse. “Our enforcement actions are starting to pay off,” SLD spokesman Mel advertisement Blackwell said.Read the Full Article
The embattled music industry — struggling to halt declining compact-disc sales that it blames on Internet song piracy — fired another strong counterattack yesterday, suing four college students at three universities who run Napster-like file-sharing sites. Read the Full Article
Joseph Nievelt, a student at Michigan Technological University; Daniel Peng, a student at Princeton University; and Aaron Sherman and Jesse Jordan, both students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, were named in separate suits filed in federal district courts in Michigan, New Jersey, and New York. The institutions were not sued. Read the Full Article
The two sides agreed Thursday on how much big webcasters like Yahoo!, America Online, Microsoft and RealNetworks must pay to broadcast songs over the Internet during 2003 and 2004. Read the Full Article
Washington, DC-Dr. Robert S. Martin, Director of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, announced grants totaling $150,435,000 to state library agencies in the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. Read the Full Article
The groups say that the bills, if they became law, could erode fair-use rights even more than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the controversial federal law that makes it illegal to bypass technologies designed to protect digital works. Read the Full Article
The bill, which primarily is intended to create a notification network for child abduction cases, also contains a measure to ban computer-based simulations of child pornography. Read the Full Article
The whistle-blower lawsuit, which was brought under the federal False Claims Act, accused the New York State Education and Research Network, known as Nysernet, of secretly funneling money obtained through federal grants to a for-profit corporation it created. Read the Full Article
The agency is putting the final touches on a series of regulations that will set the ground rules for competition in high-speed Internet access and local telephone service for the next several years.