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Edelman is asking the court to rule that if he is capable of extracting the blocked list and posts it on the Internet he will not be violating copyright, trade secrets, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) or the End User License Agreement...
...these four legal mechanisms which could prevent Edelman from legally accessing the list, the way the court rules could be most significant with respect to the DMCA. The DMCA is a new piece of legislation that gives power to copyright holders and people who produce digital information...
...that preceded the bonus tracks One Minute's Silence and credited it to Batt/Cage - a cheeky reference to the late avant-garde composer, right, John Cage's famous, silent work of 1952, 4' 33". Cage's publisher, Peters Edition, got the joke but filed for a share of the copyright dues anyway. While Batt was still "in hysterics", his label, EMI, had already coughed up a first installment of €460 to them. Batt wants it back, denies any intellectual infringement and says, "I'm not backing down and neither are they." The rare good humor of the spat - consecutive...
...clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People's Literature Publishing House, Harry's official Mandarin translator, seems powerless to protect its copyright. An official box set of the first three Potter books was published in October 2000 with an initial printing of 600,000 copies, which means Rowling may be China's biggest author since Mao. But circulation of illegal copies has cut into her official sales. One thing's for sure: diehard...
...computers. "We see this as a hacker case," says ?kokrim chief prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde. Yes, he owned the DVDs, but "he broke a protective device in order to gain access to computer data." Perhaps, says Johansen's lawyer, Halvor Manshaus, but that's not illegal under Norwegian law. Copyright statutes even allow copying if it's not for financial gain. "It certainly isn't illicit to access a film he has a right to view," he says. That will change. Johansen's work violates the European Copyright Directive, which makes it illegal to break into a mechanism to gain...