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Senator Plans Legislation to Reduce File Swapping Fines
From dc.internet.com: “Sen. Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) has added copyright infringement penalties to his laundry list of complaints about the music industry’s litigation campaign against individual file swappers, telling reporters Thursday he will introduce legislation to reduce the current range of $750 to $150,000 fines per downloaded song.”
New Report on DMCA
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
P2P File Sharing Hearing
U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing, Privacy & Piracy: The Paradox of Illegal File Sharing on Peer-to-Peer Networks and the Impact of Technology on the Entertainment Industry, 9/30/03. Includes links to Member Statements as well as witness testimony (from four panels). See specifically Mitch Bainwol, Chairman & CEO, Recording Industry …
P2P File Sharing Appeal Attracts Diverse Group of Supporters
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this website on MGM v. Grokster: “EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Morpheus P2P software, in this important lawsuit pending in federal court in Los Angeles. Twenty-eight of the world’s largest entertainment companies brought this lawsuit against the makers of the Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa software products, …
Library Associations Back P2P Companies in Upcoming Case
According to Declan McCullagh, the Amerian Library Association (ALA) planned to file an amicus brief today (9th Circuit Court of Appeals), contending that file sharing companies Streamcast Networks and Grokster should not be forced to close down. The ALA was joined by the Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Medical …
Perspective on the World of Music File Sharing
From the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Turn On. Tune In. Download. “The fact is, most participants do a lot more taking than ”sharing”; one study found that nearly half the songs accessible through major peer-to-peer networks are contributed by just 1 percent of users, and nearly 70 percent of downloaders do not share a …
New Bill on Digital Rights Management
On September 16, Sen. Sam Brownback introduced the Consumers, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Act of 2003. From his press release: “This legislation responds directly to ongoing litigation between the Recording Industry Association of America and Internet service providers Verizon and SBC Communications. This litigation has opened wide all identifying information an ISP maintains …
Major ISP Maintains Customer Privacy Amidst File Sharing Lawsuits
The New York Times spotlighted ISP SBC Communications’ refusal to join its competitors in providing customer information in response to the recent avalance of recording industry subpoenas issued to those accused of downloading and sharing music files.
New Report on Implementing EU Copyright Directive
From the independent group, the Foundation for Information Policy Research, this new guide, published September 8, Implementing the EU Copyright Directive, (128 pages, pdf). See this link for a table of contents to download specific sections in html, which include the following: Background; Problems in the United States; Immediate public policy objectives; Wider public policy …
California Lawsuit Targets RIAA Clean Slate Program
Via the EFF, as provided by Ira P. Rothken: “A lawsuit was filed today on behalf of the general public of the State of California against the RIAA for unfair, deceptive, and unlawful business practices regarding its “Clean Slate” program. This lawsuit below seeks a remedy to stop the RIAA from engaging in unlawful, misleading, …
Portrait of Those Targeted by RIAA Lawsuit Emerges
According to a WSJ article today, the RIAA contends that the target of its current spate of 261 lawsuits, filed around the country, are individuals who have compiled substantial libraries of pirated music, comprising 1,000 or more songs, which were then made available via file sharing programs such as Kazaa and Grokster. The RIAA has …
