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Academic Publishers See Google Library Project As Threat

Slashdot | Publishers Protest Google Library Project
“A group of academic publishers is challenging Google Inc.’s plan to scan millions of library books into its Internet search engine index, highlighting fears that the ambitious project will violate copyrights and stifle future sales. In a letter scheduled to be delivered to Google Monday, the Association of American University Presses described the online search engine’s library project as a troubling financial threat to its membership — 125 nonprofit publishers of academic journals and scholarly books. The university presses depend on books sales and other licensing agreements for most of their revenue, making copyright protections essential to their survival.“

Google’s only response is to license the material, I think. That would be the only thing that would get support from these folks. There will be more of this as Google moves forward with this project.

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Fake Microsoft Patch Launches Virus

Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack
“In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are taking advantage of the heightened public interest around Microsoft’s patching cycle to trick users into executing a malicious attachment.

The latest social engineering trick arrives via e-mail with an attachment that purports to be a “cumulative patch” for May 2005.

The claim is that the executable file contains patches for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, three widely used products with a history of serious security bugs.

The file is actually an executable for a variant of W32.Pinfi, a memory-resident polymorphic virus capable of replicated via mapped drives and network shares.“

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TechRepublic Launches Member Blogs

Member blogs are live
“If you have an existing blog, you can import it into your TechRepublic blog using your external blog’s RSS feed. This eliminates the need to post things twice. “

Well, this sounded interesting, so I gave it a shot. Nothing real fancy, but it does have the neat feature of importing the feed from <CONTENT /> as a way to populate the blog. The feeds are updated wevery 4 hours, so the mirror isn’t in real time, but I don’t mind. It also gives me access to all of the tagging going on on the TR member site as well as. Who knows, it may even drive more traffic.

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Nick Terry Awarded Professorship

Three Senior Faculty Members Awarded Professorships
“Professor Nicolas P. Terry, co-director of the Center for Health Law Studies and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Law, has been awarded one of two professorships provided by the Chester A. Myers Endowment. Professor Terry is an internationally recognized scholar on eHealth. His research interest lies primarily at the intersection of medicine, law and technology. Recent scholarship has concentrated on technologically-mediated health care (including telemedicine), privacy of medical information and the use of technology to reduce medical error. Educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, he began his academic career as a member of the law faculty of the University of Exeter in England. He joined the School of Law in 1980, where he has taught torts, products liability, health care law, eHealth, Internet law and insurance law ever since. During the 1996-1997 academic year, Professor Terry was on leave from the law school and served as director of legal education for LEXIS-NEXIS. He is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and holds the secondary appointment of professor of health management & policy at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health.”

Congrats to Nick!