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...best placed to combat piracy in the short term--copy-protected CDs, which have built-in encryption that is supposed to prevent you from copying the tunes more than a set number of times (usually once, which is the labels' nod to the concept of "fair use" copying in copyright law). "Our goal is a level of protection that will keep honest people honest," says Paul Vidich, an executive vice president of Warner Music (like TIME, part of AOL Time Warner...
...Copyright Office is supposed to decide by May 21 whether to approve the new royalty rates that Internet radio broadcasters insist will push them off the Net. Some of them seem to be halfway there already...
...Last week, House Majority Leader Dick Armey and another top GOP congressman, J.C. Watts, accused Democrats of what you might call political copyright infringement. Here's their beef. Three years ago, the Republicans developed a sure-fire slogan for winning elections: "Securing America's Future." They'd paid some political consultant zillions of dollars to come up with those three words. They conducted who knows how many polls and focus groups with voters to test the slogan and see if voters liked it and if it would make them break down the doors to voting stations to pull the lever...
...fantasizes about raping his mother and killing women not related to him. The melody to Kill You, however, is being claimed by someone else. French jazz pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, whose works seem to draw more from Bach and Vivaldi than from John Wayne Gacy, has filed a copyright-infringement suit alleging that Kill You lifts portions of Loussier's 20-year-old song Pulsion. The Frenchman is seeking $10 million and the destruction of all Marshall Mathers LP CDs still on the market. Eminem representatives had no comment...
...violin sensation Vanessa-Mae was featured on a 1995 album cover as if she had just won a wet-nightgown competition, record companies have been prowling for accomplished female musicians capable of playing fiddle at a high, steamy pitch. In bond (the "b" is lowercase in deference to 007 copyright lawyers), U.K.-based Decca Records has found its own variation of Sex in the Symphony. Released in 2000, the group's first album, Born, topped classical music charts around the world, selling more than 1 million copies to date. The quartet is often dubbed the "classical Spice Girls" and "Vanessa...