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...music. To help the tiny, 53-employee company overcome the enormous technological hurdles involved, Bertelsmann has opened a $50 million line of credit that could easily double. (Now hiring: any geek who thinks he or she can come up with a way to keep music files simultaneously accessible and copyright protected.) The Germans agreed that once the new model is in place, Bertelsmann's subsidiary BMG Entertainment will make its music catalog available and drop out of the copyright-infringement lawsuit that Napster has been fighting for nine months. Even before the deal was announced, Middelhoff began working the phones...
...Quayle plagiarized your speech. Really, what vindication do you hope to win? In the case of Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, granddaughter of silent-film star Harold Lloyd, the answer is about $50 million worth. Hayes, on behalf of the Harold Lloyd Trust, alleges that the Walt Disney Co. violated federal copyright law because The Waterboy is "demonstrably a copy of The Freshman," the 1924 comedy classic starring her grandfather. Like The Waterboy, The Freshman told the story of a bumbling football waterboy who happens his way onto the team, becomes the butt of jokes, falls in love with a local girl...
...Under the deal, BMG will pull out of the Napster case as soon as the company develops a for-pay version of the service that accommodates the rights of copyright holders. Bertelsmann will also chip in with a loan in the tens of millions - most of which will be sunk into developing song- and user-tracking technology, which is how royalties will be toted up - in exchange for options on as much as 58 percent of Napster...
University President Neil L. Rudenstine said that it is not Harvard's prerogative to enforce copyright laws...
Using Napster is like inviting 100,000 friends over for Monday Night Football--not what the network intended, but not illegal. How can sharing music in this way be an instance of copyright infringement if the songs are used for noncommercial purposes? Perhaps Napster will eliminate money-driven junk music and encourage truly creative individuals to write and perform great music, regardless of their compensation. The whining record companies and recording artists should learn to embrace the technology or get out of the way. ROGER KRAEMER Brea, Calif...