EDUPAGE> Edupage, October 22, 2003
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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003
Electronic Civil Disobedience at Swarthmore
Canadian Project Brings Online Medical Access to Africa
Court Upholds Web Radio Royalties
NIH Begins the Move to Electronic Grant Applications
ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AT SWARTHMORE
Students at Swarthmore College unhappy with a maker of electronic
voting machines have begun an "electronic civil disobedience"
campaign.
Diebold Election Systems has been criticized for voting systems that
have been described as full of security vulnerabilities. In March,
15,000 internal Diebold memos leaked to the press indicated that the
company knew of the problems but continued to sell the systems to
states. The memos have been posted on a number of Web sites, both
inside and outside the United States, and Diebold has been issuing
cease and desist letters to sites that post the memos. The students at
Swarthmore involved in the protest believe Diebold is improperly using
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to keep the public from seeing
the
memos and have pledged to move the memos from computer to computer as
Diebold tracks them down. Luke Smith, a sophomore at the college,
said,
"They're using copyright law as a means of suppressing information
that needs to be public."
Wired News, 21 October 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60927,00.html
CANADIAN PROJECT BRINGS ONLINE MEDICAL ACCESS TO AFRICA
Through a project at the University of Toronto, doctors in Africa have
online access to current medical literature and more than 20,000
journals. As a whole, Africa has very few points of access to the
Internet, but most doctors have access. Dr. Massey Beveridge of the
university noted that "having a few hundred affiliates in Africa"
represents a negligible cost to the university's library, but the
benefits can be significant. Beveridge said that 60 percent of the
African doctors involved have said the program, called Ptolemy, has
changed their practice. Dr. Mohamed Labib of Zambia said he hopes to
use Ptolemy to train more specialists in his field, urology. Currently
the entire nation of Zambia has two urologists.
BBC, 22 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3211844.stm
COURT UPHOLDS WEB RADIO ROYALTIES
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision affirming
the
U.S. Copyright Office's mandate that radio stations must pay royalties
to record labels and performers for songs broadcast over the Internet.
Traditional radio broadcasters paid royalties only to song writers,
not
to performers or record companies. Webcasters had argued in court that
Congress's intent when drafting updated copyright laws in 1995 and
1998 was to exempt radio-style Internet broadcasting from the
royalties
it imposed on other forms of online music distribution. The copyright
laws do not specifically identify such an exception. The court
disagreed with the radio station owners who had appealed the lower
court ruling, saying the "appellants must show something more than
congressional silence" to demonstrate such intent.
ZDNet, 21 October 2003
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39117267,00.htm
NIH BEGINS THE MOVE TO ELECTRONIC GRANT APPLICATIONS
The National Institutes of Health this month accepted 14 grant
applications electronically as an initial step in an agency-wide move
away from paper applications. Grant applicants, many of whom are
college and university researchers, have long complained that the
application process takes too much time, with many applicants waiting
more than six months to learn results. The agency annually awards
around 37,000 competitive grants to individual researchers, and
officials hope that by this time next year most of those applications
will be handled electronically. John J. McGowan, the NIH's program
manager for electronic records, said it could be two years before a
majority of applicants submit electronic applications and the system
is
working smoothly.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 October 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i09/09a02801.htm
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