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Trying to stamp out piracy under the current copyright system may ultimately prove futile. "The drafters of copyright never anticipated a day when everyone could infringe," says Michael Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Godwin thinks society may be entering a postcopyright era, in which the creators of intellectual property have to find new ways to be compensated for their work. In the future, the real value of a piece of software may not be in the program itself but in the ancillary services that come with it: printed manuals, frequent upgrades and a live person...
...first glance, software piracy seems no different from that of any other copyrighted material. Chinese factories stamp out copies of American music CDs by the millions. Pirated American movies regularly appear in Asia and Africa long before their official release on video. (The objects that sometimes crawl across the bottom of the screen turn out on close inspection to be the heads of theater patrons inadvertently videotaped by the bootleggers...
Without any concrete pledges for help other than an SDS stamp of approval, Black students forged their own movement...
...over the world. Reports put his holdings of stocks, real estate and other assets at anywhere between $700,000 and $2.3 million. Longtime political observers note, though, that urban-machine politicians -- and at least some members of Congress -- long regarded the paying of ghost employees and "cashing out" of stamp funds as routine prerogatives of office...
...Festival proceeded as sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote d'Azur...