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...have concluded that the posting of the DeCSS program on your site is prohibited by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA], and I ask that you remove or disable it at once," Ryan wrote in an e-mail message to Gabriel...
...industry--and the millions of college kids downloading free jams over the Net has begun to resemble those chewing-gum commercials where fusty geezers shake their canes at crazy kids and their "flavor crystals." The latest twist in this saga of college kids ignoring their elders, not to mention copyright law, is the emergence of file-sharing software that makes it easy to swap with fellow pirateers music stored on computer hard drives--generically known as MP3 files...
...rapidly expanding education-commercial complex, guided by monetary concerns and technologically driven to intrude upon education and interfere in the commitment, dedication and respect we enjoy in our work. With such developments in mind, it becomes clear that the essential question is not just one of rights (copyright versus free speech) but whether as teachers and students, we still wish to be involved in a public service oriented at qualified instruction, or whether we have become sheer buyers and sellers dealing in product...
However, Gregorian said distance education is going to benefit professional development. But he also said integrity and copyright issues should be a concern, as should the question of whether universities--and their individual faculty members--could become "profit centers...
...Tuesday Jackson likened Bill Gates' firm to John Rockefeller's Standard Oil - the granddaddy of all American trusts - and then rejected as nonsensical a Microsoft line of defense based on copyright protections. But the general thinking is that, barring an unexpected bit of mercy by the court, Microsoft will try to drag the proceedings through years of appeals, by which point the original suit might no longer apply to the software market. But by invoking Standard Oil, which owned 90 percent of the U.S. oil market before it was broken up in 1910, Jackson sent out a warning siren that...