Word: copyright
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...when Howard E. King, the artists' attorney, added Yale University, Indiana University and the University of Southern California as defendants in their lawsuit against Napster, all three schools promptly blocked access to the service on their networks. They were subsequently dropped from the suit, which alleges that Napster facilitates copyright infringement...
...lawsuit against Harvard by recording artists would be grounded in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The law relieves Internet service providers such as Harvard from any obligation to monitor their users for illegal actions. But once Harvard is notified that its users are breaking the law, it must take down any infringing material...
Indeed, the more Hollywood and cyberspace engage each other, the more body bags come back. Shockwave.com an entertainment site that forged pricey pacts with Tim Burton, David Lynch and the two creators of South Park, laid off 20 last week from its staff of 170. A copyright lawsuit filed by the movie and recording industries has scared investors away from the Michael Ovitz-backed content-search engine Scour, which laid off 52 of its 70 employees two weeks ago. The Digital Entertainment Network imploded in May, and even the critically lauded short-films site Atom Films is in need...
...Harvard to restrict Napster access at this point would also be premature. The illegality of the service itself has still not been established; the file-sharing software is content-neutral and has significant legal uses. Although U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has found Napster to be liable for copyright infringement and issued an injunction against the service, this injunction has been stayed until the appeal can be heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this October. It would be foolish for the University to block access to a service that is currently legal to operate. Should Napster eventually...
Instead, it posits that Harvard "has a moral, ethical and legal obligation" to prevent copyright infringement over its networks...