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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2004
   ArtSTOR Nears Launch, Signs Subscribers
   Microsoft Reaches Another Settlement
   American Airlines Released Passenger Information
   Swapping News to Sidestep Censorship


ARTSTOR NEARS LAUNCH, SIGNS SUBSCRIBERS
A digital repository of nearly 300,000 works of art will start
accepting subscriptions from college and university libraries today.
ArtSTOR, a project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, includes digital
images of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and architectural
landmarks. According to officials with the project, eliminating the
need for many colleges and universities to make their own scans of the
same piece of art was the primary reason the service was developed.
Faculty, staff, and students of subscribing institutions will be able
to view images in the collection and zoom in on specific parts of the
images, though images cannot be saved to individual users' computers.
Faculty can use the service to create groups of images for particular
classroom presentations. Because of copyright concerns, the service
will not initially include works whose copyright remains in effect,
though organizers hope to make arrangements to eventually include
images of newer works of art.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 April 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/04/2004041202n.htm

MICROSOFT REACHES ANOTHER SETTLEMENT
A settlement agreement has reportedly been reached between Microsoft
and InterTrust Technologies Corporation over digital rights management
technologies. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will pay
InterTrust $440 million to settle patent-infringement claims and to
allow Microsoft to use InterTrust's technology in electronic media. An
official from Microsoft said the settlement, along with a recent
investment in a company called ContentGuard that also develops digital
rights management tools, will allow the software maker to move forward
in distributing content, such as music and movies, over the Internet.
Companies that develop digital media products that run on the Windows
operating system, however, may not be covered by the settlement with
InterTrust and may need to arrange separate licensing.
New York Times, 12 April 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/technology/12soft.html

AMERICAN AIRLINES RELEASED PASSENGER INFORMATION
American Airlines has become the third carrier to announce that it
released passenger data as part of a program of the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) to increase airline safety after the
hijackings of September 11, 2001. Contradicting earlier statements,
American said that in June 2002 it released one week's worth of
passenger data, corresponding to 1.2 million travelers, to the TSA,
which turned over the data to four companies bidding on TSA contracts
for new security systems. The so-called "passenger name records"
typically include the traveler's itinerary as well as address,
telephone, and credit card information. A spokesman from American said
the airline believes that releasing the passenger records to private
contractors should have been approved by the airline, but that it had
no knowledge of such a release at the time. JetBlue Airways announced
in September that it had released passenger data as part of the TSA's
program, and Northwest Airlines admitted similar disclosures in
January.
Wall Street Journal, 11 April 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108155025659279114,00.html

SWAPPING NEWS TO SIDESTEP CENSORSHIP
One of the early promoters of P2P networks now says he wants to use the
technology to "break the grip of the news syndication services,"
allowing individual P2P users around the world to decide what is
newsworthy. Ross Anderson, professor at Cambridge University, believes
that news services practice a form of censorship based on which
happenings around the world are "of interest to Americans and Western
Europeans" because "that's where the money is." As a result, people in
many parts of the world will never hear about potentially newsworthy
events. Anderson envisions a global network of individuals using P2P
technology to share any and all news they consider valuable. Such a
network would make censorship difficult, if not impossible, according
to Anderson. Anderson responds to fears that a global P2P network would
be misused--for child pornography, for example--by suggesting that
watchdog groups such as the Internet Watch Foundation would police the
network for abuse. Technology analyst Bill Thompson, while not refuting
Anderson's idea, said a network like the one Anderson proposes will be
much more difficult to achieve than he believes. "Saying you
can...control some parts of it, like images of child abuse," said
Thompson, "is being wilfully optimistic."
BBC, 9 April 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3611227.stm

*** Correction ***  On Friday, April 9, Edupage included a story from
Wired News about a Trojan horse that targets Apple computers. Wired
News has since published a correction, noting that the code at issue is
not a Trojan horse but a proof of concept. Further, the code was only
posted to a newsgroup and is not in the wild. For more information, see
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63000,00.html>. --The Editors

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