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...tone matters. He says publishers last year collected just $3.6 million in ring-tone-related fees in Britain, well below 10-20% of that country's estimated $130 to $165 million in overall sales. That's because many fly-by-night ring-tone suppliers are not paying. So national "copyright collecting societies" are stepping up their efforts to monitor ring-tone companies. In response to the squeeze on their earnings, the middlemen are rushing to consolidate. Last month, Britain's iTouch bought Jippii for €12 million; in June, the Mountain View, California-based security company VeriSign Inc. bought Jamba...
From a family perspective, movies have been a part of my life. My wife Rhoda and I probably see 100 movies a year. When I was in Congress, I was on the House Copyright and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, so I have some familiarity with the MPAA and movie-company issues. There are a lot of industries in America that we've seen dissipate. But the movie industry remains extremely strong. The U.S. still has a dominant role, and it's often the face of the country...
Glickman—whose son Jonathan is a successful Hollywood producer with films like Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights and both Rush Hour features under his belt—said his time on the House Judiciary Committee had made him knowledgeable about copyright issues...
Today these books are becoming more widely read, thanks to a small army of Jewish-history buffs. In 1997 volunteers started to secure copyright permissions, translate the volumes and publish them online in a centralized place. The Yizkor Book Project website, www.jewishgen.org/yizkor is making these books available in English for the first time. Also Translated: descriptions of lost communities compiled by Israel's Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. The website boasts 584 entries describing some 450 disappeared communities, listed from A to Z, with 9,096 graphic images. A searchable database of necrologies retrieves different spellings of family names...
...ARRESTED. ISAMU KANEKO, 33, software developer charged with creating a widely distributed Japanese-language file-sharing program similar to Kazaa; in Kyoto. An outspoken opponent of Japan's Draconian copyright laws, Kaneko is the first creator of peer-to-peer programs arrested there. He is charged with writing Winny, an application that allowed computer users to anonymously swap content, such as movies and video games...