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...Under the deal, BMG will pull out of the Napster case as soon as the company develops a for-pay version of the service that accommodates the rights of copyright holders. Bertelsmann will also chip in with a loan in the tens of millions - most of which will be sunk into developing song- and user-tracking technology, which is how royalties will be toted up - in exchange for options on as much as 58 percent of Napster...
University President Neil L. Rudenstine said that it is not Harvard's prerogative to enforce copyright laws...
Artists deserve to be paid when their paintings sell or are reproduced. Poets should be paid when their poems are published. Songwriters and musicians deserve to be paid when their songs are broadcast or when someone makes a profit as a result of a song. Whoever holds the copyright is owed money. SCOTT FOGDALL San Diego...
Using Napster is like inviting 100,000 friends over for Monday Night Football--not what the network intended, but not illegal. How can sharing music in this way be an instance of copyright infringement if the songs are used for noncommercial purposes? Perhaps Napster will eliminate money-driven junk music and encourage truly creative individuals to write and perform great music, regardless of their compensation. The whining record companies and recording artists should learn to embrace the technology or get out of the way. ROGER KRAEMER Brea, Calif...
...moment, however, the University must develop a clear policy on how it will respond to copyright infringement by students. Should Metallica or other artists inform the University of cases of copyright infringement, the DMCA would require Harvard to remove the network access of repeat offenders. Yet the concept of a "repeat" offender is not well-defined, and we encourage the University to use restraint in removing students' access to the network. Official warnings should be sufficient in most cases to scare students into compliance, and the heavy penalty of losing network access--which, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...