Polley’s IT News Round-Up

The new issue of Vince Polley’s excellent Miscellaneous IT Related News (MIRLN) is out.  It’s available online here.  Some highlights:

• China has decided to allow online signatures to have legal effects.

• Intel will no longer allow open-source licenses on some of its software.

• A British Columbia court upholds the outsourcing of Canadian health records management to a private U.S. firm, rejecting claims of potential privacy lapses.

• A French court says Yahoo is not liable for auctions of Nazi memorabilia on its sites.

• A battle over “fair use” of materials placed on reserve by faculty is brewing at the University of California, San Diego.

• The Australian actors’ union is trying to block a “remixable” film project out of fears that the digitalized images could be used in ways the actors don’t approve.