Word: copyright
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...eDonkey’s user base to an online content retailer operating in a closed P2P environment.” He did so in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) which threatened immediate litigation unless MetaMachine blocked the sharing of copyrighted content on its networks. Since a June 27, 2005 Supreme Court ruling against Grokster gave record labels and movie studios the green light to sue file-sharing services, the RIAA has been busy with a letter writing campaign to shut down these services. Though file-sharing services are only guilty...
...Yagan maintains that his company never violated any copyright laws. According to the current interpretation of the law established by the recent Supreme Court decision MGM v. Grokster, it is not illegal to sell file sharing software. Rather, it is against the law to encourage illegal downloads...
...Palfrey also reiterated the importance of the individual copyright laws concerning file-sharing...
Less than two weeks ago, we outlined steps professors should take to reduce the cost of coursepacks. Linking to e-resources instead of including articles (and their attendant copyright costs) in coursepacks is one easy way for professors to help students save on course materials. The burden should not fall on professors alone, however. Now that most of the coursepacks have been distributed for the semester, the PMD can begin reviewing what went wrong and what went right, and formulating plans to keep costs down for the coming years...
...long as such copyright restrictions can be maintained, there is no reason not to see digitization as fair use under U.S. copyright law, which permits everything from personal use copying to parodies to excerpts in book reviews. We see copyright laws not as a means to keep information away, but one to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind the labor of the producers. We know of no better way of pleasing deceased thinkers than by having their hard-earned ideas and research be available to dramatically larger groups of people...