The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective July 15, 2005, which revises certain entries on the Commerce Control List (CCL) that are controlled for national security reasons in Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Part I (telecommunications), 6, 7, 8, and 9, and definitions to conform with changes in the Wassenaar Arrangement's List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies and Statements of Understanding maintained and agreed to by governments participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (Wassenaar Arrangement).
N.Y.’s enactment of energy standards for a host of CE products, including digital converters, “changes the dynamics” of next year’s legislative strategy in the states, energy efficiency advocates said. Gov. George Pataki (R) late Fri. signed S-5614, calling for the secy. of state to set standards for appliances and CE products in consultation with the state Energy Authority. Efficiency advocates targeted DTV converters this year with a dozen bills in states, but industry succeeded in stripping converter boxes from all but the N.Y. bill.
N.Y.’s enactment of energy standards for a host of CE products, including DTV converter boxes, “changes the dynamics” of next year’s legislative strategy in the states, energy efficiency advocates said.
The Homeland Security Dept. (DHS) has extended the Assn. of Public TV Stations (APTS)-led digital emergency alert system (DEAS) pilot by 6 months after the “resounding success” of the first phase, APTS Pres. John Lawson said. DHS and APTS signed an agreement for a DEAS pilot in the D.C. area to show how public TV’s digital infrastructure could be used to send EAS messages to the public and TVs, radios, personal computers, phones and wireless networks (CD Sept 29/2004 p7).
President Bush has issued a notice that continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order (EO) 13348 blocking the property of certain persons and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from Liberia. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/27/04 news, 04072715, for BP summary of EO 13348 which, among other things, prohibits imports of round logs and timber products from Liberia.) (FR Pub 07/21/05, available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/05-14555.pdf)
The Senate Commerce Committee started Thurs. what some expect to be a complex copyright battle over peer-to- peer (P2P) networks. The committee convened a panel of the heads of the music and movie industries, one of the file-sharing sector’s most determined devotees, an ISP executive and the CEO of an up-and-coming licensed P2P firm. The hearing was an expected result of the Supreme Court’s MGM v. Grokster decision last month, which determined that file-sharing companies can be liable for users’ sharing copyrighted files.
A clear federal policy is needed to speed delivery of E-911 data to the homeland security apparatus, speakers said at an E-911 Institute panel Thurs. “What we are looking for is a national strategy that addresses the bigger goals. There are a lot of conflicting standards out there,” said Kevin Murray, senior vp-Kimball & Assoc., a public safety consulting firm. The public would be better served if the federal govt. took a stronger hand in coordinating policy efforts, he said.
The Senate Commerce Committee started Thurs. what some expect to be a complex copyright battle over peer-to- peer (P2P) networks. The committee convened a panel of the heads of the music and movie industries, one of the file-sharing sector’s most determined devotees, an ISP executive and the CEO of an up-and-coming licensed P2P firm. The hearing was an expected result of the Supreme Court’s MGM v. Grokster decision last month, which determined that file-sharing companies can be liable for users’ sharing copyrighted files (WID June 28 p1).
The Senate Commerce Committee Thurs. began oversight of what some expect to be a complex legislative copyright battle over peer-to-peer networks. The committee convened a panel of the heads of the music and movie industries, one of the file-sharing sector’s most determined devotees, an ISP executive and the CEO of an up-and-coming licensed P2P firm. The hearing was an expected result of the Supreme Court’s MGM v. Grokster decision last month, which determined that file-sharing companies can be liable for users’ sharing copyrighted files.
Whether the DTV transition will produce an upsurge in analog TV dumping was raised Tues. in a Senate hearing and lawmakers seemed open to a fee and tax credit approach to jump-start a national electronics-waste recycling system. There are about 287 million analog TV sets in the country, Ranking Member Barbara Boxer (D-Cal.) said at an e-waste oversight hearing held by the Senate Superfund & Waste Management Subcommittee. About 90% of those devices are likely to be discarded after the digital transition, resulting in 1 billion pounds of lead entering the waste stream, she said.