In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Sample this: Mainstreaming mash-ups: Will copyright issues squelch
music-merging genre?
By Paul Curry, The Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050910/SCENE
04/509100328/1046&nocache=1

"Computer technology has opened the frontier for a new generation of
music artists who need no musical training and no musical talent."
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Computing changes may hurt file-sharers: Protecting against hackers,
policy can also identify users
By Ted Ross, Daily Pennsylvanian.com, September 8, 2005
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/08/431fdab
a663db

"A new policy aimed at maintaining security on the Penn computer network
may also make students who download illegally more vulnerable to legal
action."
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Russia: Russian government to toughen laws against copyright abusers
RIA Novosti, 08/ 09/ 2005
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050908/41337881.html

"MOSCOW, September 8- The Russian Cabinet has approved Penal Code
amendments that would entitle investigators to conduct preliminary
inquiries into alleged violations of copyright and related rights."
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Music copyright facts fine-tuned
By Garth Montgomery, The Australian.news.com, September 09, 2005
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16541779%2
55E16947,00.html

"Keith, there is a problem in your exhibit," one of the firm's senior
associates, Nicholas Tyacke, wrote to the man he planned to use as an
expert witness in the biggest copyright infringement case in Australian
legal history."
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Blog: German Constitutional Court: Private Copying Unlikely a Right
September 11, 2005
http://constitutionalcode.blogspot.com/2005/09/german-constitutional-cou
rt-private.html

"The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (the
Bundesverfassungsgericht) has rejected a complaint by a consumer about
copy protection measures on CDs and DVDs."
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Recording, movie groups join Internet2
By Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com, September 9, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5856739.html

"The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry
Association of America will join the Internet2 network coalition,
Internet2 officials announced Friday."
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Peter Griffin: They can cripple Kazaa, but downloading will continue
By NZ Herald, com, 09.09.05
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=546&ObjectID=10344667

"With the rabid zeal for which it has become famous, the music industry
chased file-sharing bandit Kazaa to the bottom of the world."
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Effort to digitize library books stalls over copyright concerns:
Criticism has harried the Google project, which is postponed for the
coming months
By Jesse Rogers, Daily Pennsylvanian.com, September 8, 2005
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/08/431fdaf
4777d2

Penn students may have one more powerful research tool at their
fingertips this fall -- albeit one that has stirred much controversy and
is now fighting to preserve its identity."