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...negotiating peace with the networks, which are unsure whether to love the new technology or hate it. A number of media companies and TV networks have invested in TiVo and/or Replay. But many of the same players (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME) also formed the Advanced Television Copyright Coalition, which has threatened to sue the companies in the future for nonpayment of copyright license fees. No one, of course, is making such noises anymore about VCRs, which also record copyrighted material...
Eugene E. Kim '96, president of the HarvardComputer Society, said he saw problems withselectively enforcement of copyright legislation...
...spokesperson at amazon.co.uk confirms that there has been "considerable interest" from overseas customers, which means that Scholastic, the U.S. publisher, is losing untold sales to British publisher Bloomsbury--an increasingly sticky issue of territorial rights raised by the borderless Internet. For now, Scholastic is bowing to copyright laws that permit the export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America...
...still does. He claims that JukeBox won't hurt traditional recording interests and may even do good by educating people about the importance of protecting intellectual property. "People like artists," he said. Glaser points out that JukeBox comes preconfigured in an antipiracy mode that warns users not to violate copyright laws and prevents stored copies of songs from being sent from your hard drive to the Internet. Of course, you can bypass this feature by simply unchecking a preference box. I would never do that because, well, I like artists...
...growing popularity of MP3s has not gone unnoticed by the music industry. Major recording labels like Sony and Capitol are crying foul, claiming that rampant disregard for copyright laws by hundreds of Web sites which illegally post pirated tracks threatens to grossly undercut profits. Because MP3 technology is so advanced, it is fairly simple for anyone with the proper equipment to condense and make available whole CDs for free distribution. And with the advent of portable MP3 players now offered for about $200 by seven different companies, industry doomsayers are predicting the total financial ruin of music companies worldwide...