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Fighting Music and Movie Piracy Costs Colleges Considerably, Study Says

October 20, 2008

Colleges are spending a good deal of money to prevent students from downloading copyrighted music and movies, says a report released today. And with new requirements recently imposed on instituti…

EDUCAUSE, the RIAA, and a Lot of Other People: What I Heard at the Department of Education Hearing in Washington, DC

October 9, 2008

Yesterday, the Department of Education hosted the fifth of its six regional hearings on the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA). Held in the Department's Washington, DC K street offices,…

P2P and the Higher Education Reauthorization Act: Next Steps

August 21, 2008

Congress recently passed H.R. 4137, the Higher Education Opportunity Act, a massive piece of legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act that the President will soon sign into law. Thi…

Recording and Movie Industries Win Out Over Colleges in Higher-Education Bill

July 30, 2008

"In the longstanding battle between the higher-education community and the entertainment industry over how aggressive colleges should be in trying to stop the swapping of music and video…

House approves MPAA-backed college antipiracy rules

February 7, 2008

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a higher-education funding bill that includes controversial new antipiracy obligations for universities. The 354-58 vote…

Swiftboating Higher Education on P2P

November 15, 2007

"The latest salvo in the entertainment industry’s campaign against illegal downloading of movies and music — aided and abetted by Congress — is wrong, and students should help fight it…

A Controversial Antipiracy Measure Re-emerges

October 8, 2007

After the most recent republican supported HEA proposal, intended to combat music and movie piracy on campus computer networks, the primary backers members of the Motion Picture Association of Am…

McKeon-Keller Proposed Higher Education Act Bill

October 5, 2007

This is a proposed bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965. This is a proposed bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965. …

Can Anyone Police File Sharing?

August 3, 2007

"Campus file sharing briefly hit prominence in Congress last week as colleges lobbied against a proposed amendment in the Senate to the Higher Education Act reauthorization that would have …

Universities win Senate fight over anti-P2P proposal

July 24, 2007

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has withdrawn anti-file sharing legislation that had drawn yowls of protest from universities this week. Reid, without explanation, on Monday nixed his …