Re: RIAA Preservation Letter

["Howell, Paul" <grue () UMICH EDU>]

WRT log retention practices, how does the impending litigation the RIAA
notice suggests jive with the E-discovery rules?  I know this is a legal
question and not a technical one.  When I asked our attorneys, I was
told that E-discovery probably applies.  

Do your attorneys say something different?

Paul Howell, CISSP
Chief Information Technology Security Officer
The University of Michigan
Contact information is at: http://tinyurl.com/477bc
  
 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Jacobson [mailto:Dick.Jacobson () NDSU NODAK EDU] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:52 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] RIAA Preservation Letter
>
> This just does not want to go away. 8-0
>
> I have been asked to put together a procedure for responding to the 
> different notices from the copyright holders or their agents 
> and to find 
> out what others are doing.  The discussions now are with the 
> attorneys 
> (plural).
>
> The Takedown notices and Pre-Litigation notices are not 
> causing as much 
> conversation as the Preservation notice.
>
> First, it is understood that we are under no obligation with 
> regard to 
> these notices and will not alter our log retention practices from our 
> stated policy in order to accomodate the notice.
>
> Not so clear is if we should identify the individual and notify the 
> individual that we received the notice.
>
> One of the attorneys has suggested that the Preservation 
> notice gives us 
> knowledge of the activity and we should treat it the same as 
> a Takedown 
> notice.
>
> I am interested in both your thoughts and your stated process 
> for these.
>
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> Dick Jacobson                 e-mail : Dick.Jacobson () ndus NoDak edu
> NDUS IT Security Officer      office : IACC 206, NDSU
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