Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has started to send warnings using the IM function to individual P2P users uploading music files illegally on the Internet. This action was launched on 2nd March, 2004 to give full recognition to the illegality of uploading music files through file-sharing software and make them stop such illegal activities.
From Slyck News.
A U.S. music industry group said on Wednesday it sued 477 more people for online copyright infringement as part of its effort to stop music piracy, blamed for a prolonged sales downturn.
Read the story at Reuters.
Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions’ collections of scholarly papers, according to university officials.
MSN announced the release of Newsbot and Blogbot later this year.
MSN Newsbot will gather news from more than 4000 sources worldwide. The service is being tested at newsbot.msn.com.
Microsoft is claiming a first with MSN Blogbot, a service that will let users search Web logs, or “blogs,” personal-journal type Web pages that have become increasingly popular. Many consumers even use blogs as a news source, according to Microsoft.
A very interesting article posted in U.S. News about military schools. According to Anna Mulrine, not only are minorities integrated more successfully than many civilian institutions, but schools run by the Department of Defense do well by all of their students.
Visit a Starbucks, and you can download music and create your own CD. It will cost $6.99 for the first five songs and $1 for every individual track after that. Included in the price: a labeled CD and jewel case. Alabama Times Daily
“The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has endorsed the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.”
I wonder if this will have a “trickle down” effect … if information standards will be endorsed and formally adopted in public schools.
See the complete article on the ALA website.
One small step for researchers …
“Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously March 1 that anyone making a single copy of material for research purposes in any field need not pay a licensing fee to its creator.”
From the Library Journal
“When the U.S. Department of Education reported that in 2001 nearly six out of 10 high school seniors lacked even a basic knowledge of the nation’s history, Bruce Cole was indignant and concerned. … A test administered in 1915 and 1916 to hundreds of high school and college students who were about to face World War I found that they did not know what happened in 1776 and confused Thomas Jefferson with Jefferson Davis.”
You need to register to read the entire article at the Washington Post
To quote the article: “William Gates Sr., father of the computer mogul and co-chair of the foundation, said, “we are proud” of wiring libraries, but “we are not satisfied,” citing warnings in the report that more consistent funding is needed to sustain open hours, technical support, hardware and software upgrade, Internet connections, and technology training.”
More consistent funding. Is there an echo in here? Gates Report
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