15. August, 2002 - Intellectual Schmoperty
- Fees Force College Stations to Stop Webcasting, but not all. Some College Stations are Sticking It Out is a very partial list. [doc]
- If you want to support for-fee downloadable music, check out EMusic. For $10 per month (one-year subscription required), you get all the MP3s (few that are currently popular, but they've got a lot of obscure back-catalog stuff) you can eat. [some guy]
- Dan Gillmor weighs in with We must engage in copyright debate. Hurry up and read it quick before it's gone from the web. [some guy]
- LAWYERS, TIGGERS and BEARS, OH MY!, In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Lawyers, and the Stories Begin. Trial starts next March unless they reach a settlement before then, which seems unlikely. [boing boing]
- File-swapping foes exert P2P pressure:
Now, however, the entertainment industry is revising its strategy. The new plan appears to extend the target beyond companies with an apparent declaration of legal warfare against individuals who the industry believes are swapping illicit songs or movies through peer-to-peer networks. The outcome could include jail time for those convicted of wrongful file swapping.
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- Report: Kazaa, Morpheus rave on:
The Yankee Group predicts 7.44 billion unlicensed audio files will be swapped in 2005, up from 5.16 billion among consumers aged 14 and older in 2001. After 2005, Yankee predicts free music swapping will begin to decline. Yankee projects 6.33 billion unlicensed audio files will be swapped in 2006.
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- Hollywood's private war for social control. The Justice Department should focus on protecting intellectual property. Wasn't there a war on terrorism that was supposed to be pretty important, too? [some guy]
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