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Group urges mass screening of 'Eyes'
By John Kiesewetter, Enquirer.com, February 6, 2005
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050206/ENT/502060318
Downhill Battle, a nonprofit organization based in Worcester, Mass., is
urging groups in every major U.S. city to hold screenings Tuesday of
"Eyes on the Prize," the award-winning civil rights documentary which
has not been available to the public because of lapsed copyright licenses.
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Screening will protest copyright laws: Eyes on the Prize to be shown
by activist group
By The Associated Press, MSNBC.com, Feb. 4, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6914918/
NEW YORK - The documentary Eyes on the Prize, is lauded as the
quintessential work on the civil rights movement, but dont expect to
buy a new copy or watch it on PBS any time soon. Legally, that is.
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Senate OKs Anti-Piracy Measure
By Brooks Boliek, Reuters.com,
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=filmNews&storyID=2005-02-03T081658Z_01_N03216921_RTRIDST_0_FILM-FILM-PIRACY-DC.XML
WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - The third time could be the charm for
legislation that would make it a federal crime to camcord a movie and
would protect the manufacturers of players that edit out purportedly
offensive content from movies.
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Lawsuits aim to stop file sharing at elite universities
BY JEFF MUSKUS, Yale Daily, February 3, 2005
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=28185
Some Yale post office boxes may soon be filled with subpoenas if the
University is targeted in the latest wave of anti-file-sharing litigation.
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Trinity University signs digital music agreement with Cdigix
By SanAntonio Business Journal, February 2, 2005
http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2005/01/31/daily24.html
Trinity University has reached an agreement with digital music and
media provider Cdigix that will allow the school's 2,700 students to
legally download music and movies.
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Music lawsuits get students' attention: The recording industry has been
cracking down on illegal sharing of files.
By JEFFREY PATCH, Demoines REGISTER, February 4, 2005
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050204/NEWS02/502040406/1004
Iowa City, Ia. - Todd Lantz vaulted onto a University of Iowa Top 10
List during his freshman year.
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University policies on piracy reviewed
By Owen Hembry, New Zealand Herald, 04.02.05
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10009487
The spectre of recording industry raids on Australian universities to
stem the illicit trade of copyright material has not crossed the Tasman
yet, but as music sales dive the gloves may soon come off.
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High Noon approaching for Google and academic publishers
4th February 2005
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/69026/high-noon-approaching-for-google-and-academic-publishers.html
Google is heading for a possible showdown with academic publishers
according to an article in the latest issue of Nature. It seems that
while Google has committed itself to putting the contents of the world's
great academic libraries online, it has yet to get the agreement of the
publishers of copyrighted works.
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Copyright: Public views on copyright law considered
By Business and Finance Hong Kong, February 5, 2005
http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/businessandfinance/050205/html/050205en03002.htm
All views collected will be taken into account by the Government when
drawing up proposals to further improve Hong Kong's legislative regime
for the protection of copyright, Secretary for Commerce, Industry &
Technology John Tsang says.
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File-sharing contains risks
By Gabriel Monte, North Texas Daily, February 04, 2005
http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/04/42031bfc27735
More and more online music stores are allowing consumers to download
songs cheaply and legally, but the practice of downloading music
illegally through peer-to-peer services does not seem to be diminishing.
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Senate Passes Camcorder Piracy Bill
By Reuters.com, Feb 2, 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7517991
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who secretly videotape movies when they
are shown in theaters could go to prison for up to three years under a
bill approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate.