In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Lost Under the Streetlight
By Kenneth C. Green, campus-technology, Nov. 4, 2004
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=10207

"It may be convenient to blame higher ed for its woes, but the recording
industry might be better served to look closer to home. A cop walking
his beat one night finds a drunk on his knees, searching for something
on the street. The cop asks the drunk, "What are you doing?" "Looking
for my car keys," says the drunk. The cop asks, "Where did you lose your
keys?" "I don't know," the man answers. The cop, a bit perplexed, asks,
"Then, why are you looking here if you don't know where you lost your
keys?" Responds the drunk, "Because the light is better here, under the
streetlight."
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Alternative License for the Arts Fails to Catch On in Academe
By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Chronicle.com, October 1, 2004
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i06/06a03401.htm
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"Creative commons, an effort to get artists and scholars to give up some
control of their works so that they can be more freely distributed, is
struggling to gain a foothold in academe."
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Recording industry targets ASU students
By Frank Ruggiero, wataugademocrat, 11/03/2004
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/topic.php?tid=25&sid=4871

"Several Appalachian State University students downloaded a gigabyte of
trouble in October, when the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) filed suit against them for illegally downloading copyrighted
materials from the Internet."
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Data Dumps Recommended for ISPs
By Michael Singer, Internetnews.com, November 3, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3430931

"SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Service providers faced with a growing amount of
subpoenas and DMCA (define) "take-down" requests should consider
cleaning their network logs, according to the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF)."
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The German recording industry calls for stricter rules for personal
copies
By Craig Morris, Heise Online, 02.11.2004
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/52830

"The German recording industry has once again taken a position in the
ongoing discussion on the revision of the Copyright Act and called for
stricter rules for personal copies. "We need a restriction on mass music
copies," emphasized the chairman of the German Association of the
Recording Industry, Gerd Gebhardt. At the beginning of September, the
German government presented the basic items in the amended Copyright
Act."
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RTC must consider musicians' rights in radio hearings: recording
industry
By Sandra Cordon, Canadian Press, November 02, 2004
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=5622209f-fbd9-4664-acc1-cc54b2360050

"OTTAWA -- Musicians' rights must be protected by the country's
telecommunications regulator as it considers three bids for satellite
radio licences, says the music recording industry." 
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United States: Circumvention Provision Of The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act Is Not A New Property Right
by Bernard P. Codd, mondaq.com, 02 November 2004
http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_29325
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"In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit affirmed a summary judgment finding no violation of the
anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by distributing garage door openers that
are compatible with the plaintiff's garage door opening (GDO) systems."
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The day the royalties die
By ANNA SMYTH, Scotsman.com, 2 Nov 2004
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1263112004

"IT'S NEW YEAR'S Eve and the champagne is on ice. Sir Cliff's celebrity
chums are nibbling on caviar and canapes, and Sue Barker is a little
squiffy, but not as merry as Olivia Newton-John. A-list anticipation
throngs the air as the stars await the company of their teen
heart-throb."
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Cliff challenges EU rock'n'roll 'swindle'
By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter, November 01, 2004
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13130-1338692,00.html
 
"IT IS the greatest pension fund raid of all time. The stars who created
rock'n'roll are about to lose the rights over the classic hits that made
them famous. From January 1, 2005, anyone will be able to release
landmark rock'n'roll recordings such as Elvis Presley's That's All Right
without paying a penny in royalties to the performer or their estates."
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Xeni Tech: Hollywood Fights Video, Movie Piracy
By npr.org, Day to Day, November 1, 2004
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4136643

"California state officials are teaming up with Hollywood to crack down
on the illegal sharing of copyrighted movies and music online. A new
state law makes online intellectual-property crimes punishable by up to
a year in jail and up to $2,500. Technology correspondent Xeni Jardin
reports."
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Sony ready to join music file-sharing: DISTRIBUTION ACCORD WITH FORMER
ADVERSARIES IN THE WORKS
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Mercury News, Oct. 30, 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10055238.htm

"The world's largest music company is discussing ways to distribute its
songs through Grokster and other Internet file-swapping services, a deal
that would embrace a technology long under legal assault by the
recording industry."