In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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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."
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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
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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."