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...July, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued Scour, claiming that the company's software facilitated massive copyright violations and was therefore illegal. The Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) joined the MPAA's lawsuit soon after...
Tentatively named C-star, the program will allow users to swap music, video and other entertainment files and chat with each other. Unlike Scour Exchange, however, the company says it will provide a variety of copyright management schemes and fee structures that content producers can choose for the material they make available through C-star...
Until then, Harvard will simply urge students to remember that they are responsible for infringement of copyright laws, panelists said...
...music. To help the tiny, 53-employee company overcome the enormous technological hurdles involved, Bertelsmann has opened a $50 million line of credit that could easily double. (Now hiring: any geek who thinks he or she can come up with a way to keep music files simultaneously accessible and copyright protected.) The Germans agreed that once the new model is in place, Bertelsmann's subsidiary BMG Entertainment will make its music catalog available and drop out of the copyright-infringement lawsuit that Napster has been fighting for nine months. Even before the deal was announced, Middelhoff began working the phones...
...Quayle plagiarized your speech. Really, what vindication do you hope to win? In the case of Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, granddaughter of silent-film star Harold Lloyd, the answer is about $50 million worth. Hayes, on behalf of the Harold Lloyd Trust, alleges that the Walt Disney Co. violated federal copyright law because The Waterboy is "demonstrably a copy of The Freshman," the 1924 comedy classic starring her grandfather. Like The Waterboy, The Freshman told the story of a bumbling football waterboy who happens his way onto the team, becomes the butt of jokes, falls in love with a local girl...