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NPR, Mon, 09 Jan 2006 4:04 PM PST
Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5139522
All Things Considered , January 9, 2006 ? Archivists and collectors
have long lamented the lack of access to older recordings. So the 
Library of
Congress commissioned a team to find out just how many are out of print.

IT'S Hunting Season for Identity Thieves
Motley Fool - USA
... W-2s, 1099s, and other information-rich tax-related documents. ...
More than 300,000 files were breached at LexisNexis ... to the volume
of personal records stored in ...
<http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06011001.htm>

ATTORNEY general wants $100,000 for open records search
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
PIERRE, SD - Attorney General Larry Long wants $100,000 to conduct an 
open
records search in South Dakota. Long said the person ...
<http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/13585691.htm>

DO Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?
PC World - USA
... term, expert says. Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital
storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124312,00.asp>

IBM expert warns of short life span for burned CDs
Infoworld - Netherlands
Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as
optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage ...
<http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002570F10
05E9660>

KEEPING divorce private
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... disclosed. Things are different in the public sector. The Freedom of
Information Act has been in force for almost a year now. This ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/01/10/213557/Keepingdivorcep
rivate.htm>


CLERK apologizes for releasing personal information
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Jeff Polsean. The Illinois Freedom of Information Act exempts from
disclosure information that jeopardizes personal privacy. "We ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060110ilinformation,1,21065
54.story?coll=chi-news-hed>

HISTORIAN told true tales of everyday life
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... She was a longtime executive director of the Ramsey County 
Historical
Society and editor of Ramsey County History magazine, shaping the growth
and national ...
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/13588166.htm>

COMPUTER changeover causes backup for La Salle County recorder
MyWebTimes.com - Ottawa,IL,USA
... more streamlined system with better document accessibility, Recorder
of Deeds Tom Lyons ... will make many of the county's latest land 
documents
-- including maps ...
<http://mywebtimes.com/ottnews/archives/ottawa/sections.cgi?prcss=display
&id=240112>

US Monitor Asks for New Jersey Medical and Dentistry School ...
New York Times - United States
... and the destruction of electronic mail, and copies of its security
programs and policies. He also asked for five years' worth of records
involving any ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/nyregion/10medical.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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