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Still to be solved is the key question: In what format will your music arrive? Can the industry create a standard that will satisfy users who want MP3s they can transfer to portable players and CDs, while protecting copyright owners? "We don't know all the details," admits Richard Wolpert, the Real executive who helped create MusicNet. But "it's fair to say [the files] won't be free-and-clear MP3s as we know them...
...Survivor Productions, though, it's copyright infringement, and they're suing over similarities both structural and aesthetic, including the use on "Boot Camp" of "romantic landscape photography and picturesque shots of wildlife." (Have those been patented?) And they've also got an industry tale to tell that says a lot about why so many TV shows, reality and non-, look so much alike: CBS passed on "Boot Camp" first...
...Beijing's largest apartment complexes, has attracted renters for more than two years by lashing an illegal decoder to its satellite dish and pirating Major League Baseball and other programs. Soon the network plans to present evidence to the Chinese government, which has been touting its crackdown on copyright violations that cost foreign firms up to $1 billion last year. "I find it amazing that a Foreign Ministry company would use a smuggled decoder to rip off these shows," says DAVID CANTALUPO, ESPN's general manager in China. The ministry's company insists it bought rights to the shows...
...case, in which movie studios sued Sony because they feared VCR's would lead to piracy. The judge in that case, evincing an understanding of technology more sophisticated than Judge Patel's, ruled in favor of Sony because Sony's customers, not the company itself, were the ones violating copyright. Judge Patel, in contrast, feels that Napster actively encourages its users to pirate music, and thus closed the loophole around the company. Unfortunately, there's no software patch for a quick civil courts system and a judge with a creative interpretation of the spirit...
...fact, the next few months could be remembered as the last wheeze of 20th-century copyright...