Subject: In The News From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:43:37 -0400 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------- European Digital Rights launches By Drew Cullen, The register.com, 13/06/2002 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25712.html "Called European Digital Rights (EDRi), the new organisation will be based in Brussels, where it will focus its activities towards developments in the European Union and the Council of Europe". This is necessary, because rulings on privacy and interception are coming more and at an EU, and the introduction of new civil rights-threatening regulation is coming at an increasing pace, the group says." ------------ File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty By Damien Cave, Salon.com, 6/13/02 http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/index.html "An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why. * Policy analysis: Policing Pirates in the Networked Age by Stan Liebowitz, CATO.org, June 13, 2002 http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html "This paper examines whether new Internet copying technologies are likely to be different from prior technologies in their ability to destroy the value of intellectual property rights and concludes that they are. It then examines the evidence that has been put forward to support a claim that Napster had a negative impact on the compact disk industry and concludes that the evidence does not support such a finding. I then explain why it is that the negative impacts of Napster were unlikely to have been felt at the time these examinations were undertaken." ----------- Milberg Weiss Files Suit Over CDs With No-Copy Technology By Brenda Sandburg, The Recorder - Law.com, 06-17-2002 http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1024078845697&t=LawArticle "Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach has jumped into the legal brawl over how much access consumers should have to copyrighted digital music. Best known as a leader in shareholder class actions, New York-based Milberg Weiss filed a California consumer class action against five record labels Wednesday claiming that the audio discs they are selling with no-copy technology are misleading and defective." * More Coverage: Lawsuit Challenges Copy-Protected CDs http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&581&e=12&u=/nm/20020615/tc_nm/tech_piracy_cd_dc_3 ------------ Microsoft Relents on Software-Licensing Terms Objectionable to Colleges By FLORENCE OLSEN, Chronicle.com, June 17, 2002 http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061702t.htm "The Microsoft Corporation announced on Friday that it will offer alternatives to three unpopular features of its Campus Agreement licensing program, in response to negative feedback from college administrators."
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