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Apple Computer has accused top Microsoft executives of using blackmail tactics to try to force Apple to drop its copyright suit against Microsoft and to halt the development of competitive software. Threats to withhold the pre-release version of their new operating system, Windows 95, including two made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates personally, were detailed in a Feb. 13 letter written by Apple chief executive Michael Spindler to U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin, who was reviewing Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The next day, Sporkin rejected the settlement, though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered...
Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller, a leading authority in the field of copyright and privacy and a legal correspondent for "Good Morning America," will moderate the seminar...
...course, which will be team-taught by a rotation of guest lecturers, will explore the policy and legal conflicts raised by the issues of copyright and information piracy, libel, liability, personal privacy and national security...
Washington hopes to keep the copyright dispute contained, but the opening salvo two weeks ago sounded serious. Because Beijing refused to crack down on pirate manufacturers, the U.S. imposed a 100% tariff on $1 billion worth of Chinese goods. Beijing retaliated with punitive tariffs of its own on U.S. consumer products. It looked as if the thrust and parry might lead to a full- scale duel. But the two sides announced that the tariff increases would not go into effect until Feb. 26. This week they will try to head them off altogether by reopening negotiations...
...strongly against concessions. Chinese officials strike the posture of victims, charging the U.S. with bullying a poor, struggling country. ``The belief is,'' says a government official, ``if we give in to the U.S. on this one, they will just ask for more.'' Shen Rengan, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, complains that ``there are a bunch of people in the U.S. who are petrified by the prospect of China becoming strong . . . The U.S. can't play globocop in China...