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Indeed, the more Hollywood and cyberspace engage each other, the more body bags come back. Shockwave.com an entertainment site that forged pricey pacts with Tim Burton, David Lynch and the two creators of South Park, laid off 20 last week from its staff of 170. A copyright lawsuit filed by the movie and recording industries has scared investors away from the Michael Ovitz-backed content-search engine Scour, which laid off 52 of its 70 employees two weeks ago. The Digital Entertainment Network imploded in May, and even the critically lauded short-films site Atom Films is in need...
...Harvard to restrict Napster access at this point would also be premature. The illegality of the service itself has still not been established; the file-sharing software is content-neutral and has significant legal uses. Although U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has found Napster to be liable for copyright infringement and issued an injunction against the service, this injunction has been stayed until the appeal can be heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this October. It would be foolish for the University to block access to a service that is currently legal to operate. Should Napster eventually...
Instead, it posits that Harvard "has a moral, ethical and legal obligation" to prevent copyright infringement over its networks...
...order to play DVDs, Johanssen's program breaks the encryption that prevents them from being copied. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, that's a crime. Goldstein will appeal; his lawyer, Martin Garbus, who also defended Lenny Bruce and Timothy Leary, argues that software is self-expression and hence protected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, he asks, just because this application of the program is criminal, does that make the program itself criminal? U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan thought so. He wrote, in an occasionally impassioned 93-page ruling, that "the excitement of ready access...
BRANDY THOMAS, 32 Four years ago, while his co-workers were enjoying a dinner cruise on the Potomac River, Brandy Thomas was on deck brainstorming with a colleague about how to help businesses take advantage of the Internet. Both men suddenly realized no one was monitoring copyright violations on the Net and that as a result corporations were losing millions of dollars in revenue. That led them to the concept for Cyveillance, a sort of dotcom Web sleuth founded in 1997, which uses its proprietary NetSapien Technology to scour the Net for misuse of brand names, copyright infringements and clues...