There are plans to add more comprehensive features, such as the ability to send captions with the video feed to notify people who is speaking and additional information. They also hope to make the site more interactive and provide detailed archive material, along with hypertext links, for example, to obtain further details about the speaker, or find out whether they have always held the same view. TV on the Web are also planning to build another channel for debates in the US Senate and House of Representatives. The network will be convened by Professor Paul Bacsich and Peter Hartley, from Sheffield Hallam University and the inaugural meeting will take place in the Autumn. It is also envisaged that other material from Context's UK Case Law, UK Statutory Law and European Law CD-ROMs may be included in the new agreement.
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In the meantime, both organisations are carrying out research into how electronic databases are currently being used within academic institutions. Next month sees the release of ' Internet and Electronic Commerce Law in the European Union' by Hart Publishing, a new book by John Dickie, from the University of Warwick. The book examines current EU legislation on Internet related legal issues such as contracts, copyright, data protection, commercial communications, financial transactions and electronic signatures. The present framework and possible future direction of Internet regulation is considered and Dickie argues the market may well become fragmented due to the lack of co-ordination between the legislative instruments. Further information is available from Hart Publishing .