Hill Review
The Year 2000 issue has been the subject of countless hearings on Capitol Hill. On October 2, 1998 the Senate Special committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem held a hearing
What is harmful to minors
The new legislation places a prohibition on the commercial distribution over the Web of material that is harmful to minors. The crafters of COPA believe their bill is
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
The FAA in particular has been raked over the coals since the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a report in January, 1998 entitled,
Battle Lines on the Homefront
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was originally designed as implementing legislation, became fraught with controversy as more and more provisions
U.S. Response
Moving with dizzying ineffectiveness, the United States is still hammering out (at press time) the details to enable our country to be in compliance with the Directive. (See the
The Fix
O n July 14 of this year, President Clinton and Vice President Gore spoke on the Year 2000 conversion issue at the National Academy of Sciences. The speech was
The NCCUSL Website homepage states that its mission is to “promote uniformity in state law on all subjects where uniformity is desirable and practicable.” Work on Article 2B began in
In June of 1997, Sen. Torricelli (D-NJ) jumped on the bandwagon and introduced “The Electronic Mailbox Protection Act of 1997.” S. 875 has the same “opt-out”, sender
Hearings
Hard on the heels of the introduction of the bill, the Courts and Intellectual Property subcommittee held its first hearing on H.R. 2652, prompting industry to suspect that the
The backbone of the legislation is the universal service program, established by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which subsidizes Internet hook-ups for schools, libraries and rural