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...motion picture and recording industries are more effective in protecting their copyright in the second model, and in another the media itself is protected through technological advances that prevent copying...
This model is similar, on a small scale, to what William Fisher, director of the Berkman Center, outlines in Promises to Keep, his forthcoming book on digital copyright. Under Fisher’s system, a government-managed distribution network would record when people accessed the work, then pay the artist in proportion to the number of hits...
About a year of preparation led up to the Digital Media Project’s study, and earlier phases of the project included a conference on digital copyright that attracted participants from both academia and business, with representatives from companies like Microsoft...
Fortunately, the publishers may soon have to change their pricing schedules. The Supreme Court decided in the 1998 ruling of Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L’Anza Research Int’l, Inc. that re-importation of American textbooks no longer violates federal copyright law. Since then, entrepreneurial students have garnered major savings by ordering their books from the European branches of major online distributors—www.amazon.co.uk is a prime example—and from other foreign distributors who are able to obtain the books at significantly lower prices. Many have also made profits by selling these...
...together, but they haven't yet been able to take it on the road. Apple's iTunes Music Store has rung up 14 million sales in the U.S. since its April launch. Napster, the music industry's original villain, reopens in the U.S. this week as a paid, copyright-friendly service. But users in Europe won't be listening in to either any time soon. Apple is unlikely to offer iTunes in Europe before mid-2004, with Napster waiting even longer to make the crossing. Lengthy negotiations to secure licenses from the major record labels don't help. "Deals will...