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Recording and Movie Industries Win Out Over Colleges in Higher-Education Bill
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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…
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MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns
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November 23, 2007
"The Motion Picture of Association of America is urging some of the nation's largest universities to deploy custom software designed to pinpoint students who may be using the schools…
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A Controversial Antipiracy Measure Re-emerges
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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…
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Pre-Litigation Letters Put Colleges Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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October 5, 2007
"This week The Badger Herald, the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s student newspaper, profiles “Elizabeth,” one of the growing number of college students who have received …
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CD sales dead? Not For Indies!
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January 1, 2007
"The Future of Music Coalition launched their "Rock the Net" campaign today. Musicians around the country are signing up to do concerts to raise awareness of network neutrality and m…
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Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
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January 1, 2007
The author offers advice on how schools may want to proceed when when served with an RIAA subpoena requesting student information on those who may have downloaded music. …
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'The Hammer's Coming'
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January 1, 2007
"A program called cGrid took center stage at a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Thursday — the latest in a series of meetings convened by the commit…
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Where to Draw the Line in the Copyright Wars
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January 1, 2007
A Blog entry concerning the recent actions taken by the RIAA and their ploy to put schools in the middle of their battle with students who use P2P technology to download copyrighted music. …
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DRM threatens 'fair use' rights
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January 1, 2006
In his most recent rant about DRM (Jobs iPod Hi-Fi: Home stereo reinvented? Or load of HorseCRAP?), David Berlind once again reminds us why we should rail against Apple and its iTunes Music Service…
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Separating "Consumer Rights" From Copyright
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January 1, 2005
This Blog entry discusses the Supreme Court ruling in MGM vs. Grokster in the context of consumer rights issues and the original Sony ruling. This Blog…

















