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SIRA – Double Dipping
IPac – Blog > This will be a busy week in the House — Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it’s bad news for you. > Simply put, [...]
Police act on German file-sharing
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Police act on German file-sharing > Police in Germany have charged 3,500 users of a file-sharing network in the biggest single action against the illegal distribution of music online. > The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) – the record industry’s global body – said each could face five [...]
Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod
Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod | CNET News.com > A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anticopying software the company had embedded in some music CDs. > The agreement (click for PDF) covers anyone who bought, received or used [...]
XM faces legal action from the RIAA
XM faces legal action from the RIAA - The Digital Music Weblog > Although usually such good friends, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Satellite radio provider XM have just fallen out over a new portable digital music player and they’re airing their dirty laundry in public with a multi-million dollar law suit. [...]
RIAA leaning on Universities
Recording Industry Association of America > WASHINGTON – As part of the entertainment industry’s efforts to address the ongoing theft of music and movies online by college students, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today announced a systematic program to identify and curtail campus Local Area [...]
Transferring music ruled legal
Transferring music ruled legal – Technology – theage.com.au > Once the new laws are passed, “format shifting” of music, newspapers and books from personal collections onto MP3 players will become legal. The new laws will also make it legal for people to tape television and radio programs for playback later, a practice currently prohibited although [...]
Apple wins over The Beatles
Apple vs Apple: High Court to rule in trademark row – Britain – Times Online > Apple Corps, the company set up by the Fab Four in 1968, had wanted multi-million pound damages from Apple Computer for using the apple logo in its iTunes Music Store, which has sold a billion tracks since its launch [...]
EFF: DeepLinks
EFF: DeepLinks > The Washington Post reports that Senators Feinstein (D-Cal.) and Graham (R-S.C.) have introduced S. 2644, dubbed the PERFORM Act, that is aimed at punishing satellite radio for offering its subscribers devices capable of recording off the air. > Buried in the bill, however, is a provision that would effectively require music webcasters [...]
Canadian Music Creators Coalition
Canadian Music Creators Coalition: A New Voice > We are a growing coalition of Canadian music creators who share the common goal of having our voices heard about the laws and policies that affect our livelihoods. We are the people who actually create Canadian music. Without us, there would be no music for copyright laws [...]