File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints — When Zachary McCune, a student at Brown, received an e-mail message from the university telling him he might have broken the law by downloading copyrighted songs, his eyes glazed over... ...full story at techmeme
from techmeme on Wed, Oct 10 2007
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US students, alumni to get legal P2P » the register (uk) The beginning of the end of the file-sharing wars? Exclusive US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned.… |
| 04 Dec 07 |
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Judge finds copyright defense unconvincing in RIAA lawsuit » digg A federal judge has rejected a file-sharing defendant's argument that the record labels have engaged in copyright misuse by collectively litigating their nearly 30,000 file-sharing lawsuits. |
| 14 Aug 08 |
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Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany » digg Prosecutors in a German state have announced they will refuse to entertain the majority of file-sharing lawsuits in future. It appears that only commercial-scale copyright infringers will be pursued, with those sharing under 3000 music tracks and 200... |
| 12 Nov 07 |
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New bill would punish colleges, students who don't become copyright cops » digg Schools would be forced to police file-sharing activity on their networks and possibly offer subscriptions to music services under the proposed College Opportunity and Affordability Act. If they don't comply, their students would be cut off from all... |
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The Semantics of File Sharing » slashdot ethericalzen writes "The LA Times has published an opinion article about the legal semantics and analogies of file sharing. The article includes arguments from those who believe file sharing is theft and those who strongly disagree. As it points out, the... |
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