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After belatedly bowing to international pressure to stop its nuclear testing, China is showing signs of giving ground on copyright piracy, its surliest trade dispute with the U.S. Unless Beijing cracks down on pirated products, as it promised to do under an international accord in 1995, the U.S. will impose record trade sanctions on $2 billion worth of Chinese clothing and electronic goods by June 17. Acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said Tuesday that that China has closed some factories that were producing pirated computer programs, movies and music, but that Beijing must take "further concrete and verifiable action...
Exploring the issue of regulation on the Internet, she asked how the government is going to enforce copyright protections on a system which is based on the free flow of information...
...suggested that the copyright protections of the print medium be extended to that of electronic media. --By Douglas M. Pravda
...make any changes can be deemed a sacrilege. To kids, a fairy tale is as sacred as the Pentateuch; it instructs them in the perils and wonders of the world they are just getting used to. Even as adults, they may retain what they believe to be a moral copyright on their memory of favorite stories. Don't dig up my Secret Garden, they protest. Don't abuse my Seuss...
...Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who have voted in several cases to expand states' rights. Justice John Paul Stevens, who opposed them, warned that Wednesday's action "prevents Congress from providing a federal forum for a broad range of actions against states, from . . . copyright and patent law to . . . bankruptcy, environmental law and the regulation of our vast national economy." The ruling rejuvenated the 11th Amendment, which restricts judicial powers given to the legislative branch. It also ended Congress' exclusive power in making laws affecting Native Americans...