In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Universities track MP3 downloads
By Simon Hayes, australianit.news.com, FEBRUARY 25, 2003
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6039137%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

"THE recording industry's bid to uncover the identity of alleged music
pirates at some of Australia's top universities edged forward this
afternoon, after the University of Melbourne agreed to preserve
potential evidence."
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Lawmakers Demand That Colleges Crack Down on Illegal File Sharing
By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Chronicle.com. February 27, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003022701t.htm

"Members of the U.S. House of Representatives admonished university
administrators on Wednesday to get tougher with students who swap music
and video material online in violation of copyright law." (Contributed
by Neal Pomea)
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Congress targets campus P2P piracy:  Politicians chide universities for
not doing enough to stop it
By Declan McCullagh, MSNBCnews.com, Feb. 26
http://www.msnbc.com/news/877786.asp

" Key politicians chided universities on Wednesday for not doing enough
to limit peer-to-peer piracy, calling unauthorized copying a federal
crime that should be punished appropriately."
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Feds confiscate 'illegal' domain names
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, February 26, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-986225.html

"Wednesday afternoon, the DOJ said it had taken over the iSoNews.com
domain, whose owner pleaded guilty to felony copyright crimes under the
controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). David Rocci, 22,
pleaded guilty in December to using his site to sell "mod" chips that
let Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation owners modify their devices so
that they could use them to play illegally copied games, or "warez."
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More Coverage:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5271899.htm
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AOL Starts a Service For Copying of Music
By David A. Vise, Washington Post.com,  February 26, 2003; Page E05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2696-2003Feb25.html?referrer=email

"America Online Inc. is launching a music service today that will enable
its subscribers to listen to newly released music and copy, or "burn,"
it onto CDs for a fixed monthly fee."
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Some Missed Items
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Intellectual property is theft. Ideas are for sharing
By John Naughton, The Observer/GuardianUnlimited.com, February 9, 2003
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,891687,00.html

"One of my favourite essays is George Orwell's 'Politics and the English
Language'. In it, he analyses not only how thought corrupts language,
but also how language corrupts thought. 'A bad usage can spread by
tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know
better,' Orwell writes."
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What a great idea. I think I'll steal it
By JAMES ADAMS, GlobeandMail.com, February 19, 2003 - Page R3
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030219/RVGLOB/Entertainment/Idx

"What a great idea. I think I'll steal it Culture has always drawn on
what has gone before, but some artistic borrowings can seem little more
than daylight robbery. JAMES ADAMS explores age-old traditions of
authorship and some very modern problems"
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Why A Recent Supreme Court Copyright Ruling May Have Important
Implications for Second Amendment Gun Rights As Well
By MICHAEL C. DORF, Findlaw.com,  Feb. 05, 2003
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20030205.html

"Recently, in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the Supreme Court declined to strike
down the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The Act had
extended all current and future copyright terms by twenty years.
(Previously, copyright protection had generally lasted for the lifetime
of the author plus fifty years; now it lasts for the lifetime of the
author plus seventy years.)

The decision is important in its own right. Yet it may ultimately hold
even greater significance if its logic is applied in what may seem a
completely different context: gun control and the Second Amendment."