Thought you'd like to see this--from Educause (newsletter of Edupage), Feb. 25, 2002.
ONLINE GROUP TO GIVE ADVICE REGARDING COPYRIGHTS The Electronic Frontier Foundation and several law schools have created a Web site that offers a searchable database of cease-and-desist information. The site aims to help recipients of cease-and-desist letters better understand their rights, in an effort to protect First Amendment freedoms. Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said, "What we try to do with this site is to clarify what it is [letter recipients] have to worry about and what's more likely to just be someone blowing hot air." The goal is to prevent Web publishers from being intimidated into removing content from their sites unnecessarily. The site, at www.chillingeffects.org, is set to go live today and will encourage others to submit their letters for annotation and inclusion in the database. Law students at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford will analyze and annotate the letters. (New York Times, 25 February 2002) Try it at: http://www.chillingeffects.org Charlton Charlton H. Pendry Director of Technology and Library Media Services Fort Dodge Community Schools 104 S. 17th St. Fort Dodge, IA 50501 Voice: 515-574-5668 FAX: 515-574-5324 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weekley Rule for Writeres (Rejected by Strunk and White's "The Elemunts of Stile") Rule #20: The passive voice is to be ignored. --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/tech-cord@aea5.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
