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...high-tech crime unit, as do Italy, Spain and Sweden. Police units, however, are only as effective as a country's laws. Italy's are stiff: up to four years in prison and a $15,000 fine for anyone caught selling, distributing, producing and importing illegal copyright-protected goods, plus a second system of even heftier fines. This year, Italian police have arrested 1,329 people for music-copyright violation alone, says Luca Vespignani, a music anti-piracy official who works for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But all too often, software providers say, pirates...
...Indian film industry as doleful, dancing heroines. Just this year, the U.S. thriller What Lies Beneath was turned into Raaz, and the Polish art film A Short Film About Love became the scandalous Ek Chhotisi Love Story. As a Bollywood character notes in the London musical Bombay Dreams, "Copyright means the right to copy...
...ACLU’s 26-page brief, filed in federal lawsuit Edelman v. N2H2, details the claims of Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 that his First Amendment freedom to research Internet filtering software trumps restrictions of copyright law, trade secret law, the End User License Agreement (EULA), and most prominently, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
...case has the potential to redefine national interpretation of the controversial DMCA. To date, its prohibition against the “circumvention of copyright protection systems” has been universally upheld by federal judges...
...N2H2 successfully held that its list was a “work,” then Edelman’s discovery and distribution of the list would constitute copyright violation. Edelman pointed out that certain kinds of collections, like the phone book, cannot be copyrighted, and he believes N2H2’s list falls into this category...