Internet-Intellectual Property Legal Docs & Court Briefs Napster's Appeal Brief in Ninth Circuit Against RIAA Aug. 18, 2000 Judge Patel Issues Written Ruling Explaining Injunction Aug. 11, 2000 Court of Appeals STAYS Napster Injunction July 28, 2000 Transcript of Hearing in which Judge Patel granted RIAA's Injunction Request Against Napster July 26, 2000 Napster's Opposition to RIAA's Request for Preliminary Injunction (PDF) July 3, 2000 Copyright Office is Seeking Public Comment on DMCA's Effect on Copyright Law's First Sale Rule and Back-up Copy Rights REPLY Comments Due Sept. 5, 2000 RIAA Complaint Against MP3board to OUTLAW LINKS June 23, 2000 MPAA Complaint Against RecordTV.com 'Virtual VCR' RIAA's Request for Preliminary Injunction Against Napster (PDF) MP3Board v. RIAA Declaratory Judgment Suit Against RIAA that Hyperlinking to MP3s IS LEGAL (PDF) RIAA v. MP3.COM Decision May 4, 2000 Overly Strict Interpretation of Copyright Statute Renders MP3.com Liable for Infringement "First Amendment Protects Computer Source Code," Unanimously Rules Another Federal Appeals Court JUNGER v. DALEY  2000 FED App. 0117P (6th Cir.) April 4, 2000 YOU CAN HELP TO WRITE THE COPYRIGHT LAW On October 28, 2000 the Copyright Office will determine works (if any) to be considered EXEMPT from DMCA's circumvention ban EFF's POST-HEARING COMMENTS on DMCA Recommend DVDs Ruled EXEMPT from DMCA's Circumvention Ban June 23, 2000 EFF TESTIMONY AT DMCA PUBLIC HEARINGS May 19, 2000 Public Hearings Scheduled: May 2-3, 2000 in Washington, D.C. and May 18-19, 2000 at Stanford University EFF Reply Comments: Recommends "First Access Rule" & Digital Fair Use By Robin D. Gross, March 31, 2000 EFF Calls for Reply Comments EFF Initial Comments on DMCA to Copyright Office: Recommends Exempting DVD, SDMI From Circumvention Ban By Robin D. Gross, Feb. 17, 2000 Also - Copyright Office is Accepting Public Comment over Digital Performance Rights and RIAA Petition DVD-CCA/MPAA  v.  The World EFF Appeals California DVD Software Ban ACE Attorney Martin Garbus Enters Battle Over DVDs By EFF Criminal Charges & more MPAA/Norway v. Jon & Per Johansen Sign the petition against the treatment received by Jon Johansen!  California Trade Secret Claim DVD-CCA v. McGlaughlin, Bunner, et al New York DMCA Claim MPAA v. Reimerdes, Goldstein, Kazan Connecticut DMCA Claim MPAA v. Hughes Crytome DVD Collection Harvard's Open Law DVD Project 2600 Magazine OpenDVD.org RIAA v. Napster: RIAA v. Napster Motion for Summary Judgment Denied - Case to Proceed to Trial May 5, 2000   [PDF] NAPSTER'S REPLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR SUMMARY ADJUDICATION RIAA BRIEF RE: DMCA 512(a) Immunity  [PDF] NAPSTERâS MOTION FOR SUMMARY ADJUDICATION and MEMO OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT RIAA COMPLAINT FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT  AGAINST NAPSTER RIAA Press Release on its Lawsuit Against Napster Dec. 7, 1999 Metallica v. Napster & the Universities -- Complaint Filed April 14, 2000 (PDF) RIAA v.MP3.com Lawsuits: RIAA v. MP3.COM Decision May 4, 2000 RIAA's Summary Judgment Reply Brief   April 6, 2000  [PDF] RIAA's Summary Judgment Brief Feb. 11, 2000  [PDF] RIAA v. MP3.com RIAA's Complaint Against MP3.com January 21, 2000 MP3.com v. RIAA/Rosen MP3.com's Complaint against RIAA & Hilary Rosen - Feb. 7, 2000 Harry Fox Agency v. MP3.com Peer Music v. MP3.com Complaint March 14, 2000  [PDF] Mormon Church v. Utah Light Ministry: Under the Cover of Light Resources UTL's Notice of Appeal of Preliminary Injunction to 11th Circuit Preliminary Injunction Order Against Web Site Critical of Church for Posting URLs of Allegedly Infringing Church Copyrighted Materials Dec. 6, 1999 - U.S. Dist. Court - C.D. Utah UTL's Legal Response to Restraining Order -- Oct. 28, 1999 Page 1   Page 2  Page 3   Page 4 Transcripts from Court Hearings Judge Bars Group from Posting URLs for Mormon Handbook By Kathleen Ohlson LDS Copyright Battle Storms the Web By Ben Fulton Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link By Carl S. Kaplan Real Networks v. Streambox: Streambox's Response to Real Network's Motion for TRO Jan. 4, 2000 U.S. District Court (W.D. Wash.) ORDER Issuing TRO Against Streambox Real's Complaint Against Streambox for Violation of DMCA Real's Legal Docs and Statements Real Keeps Up Copyright Fight By Christopher Jones Digital Audio Lawsuit Could Set Precedent By Sara Robinson Real Wins Temporary Injunction in Copyright Lawsuit By Sandeep Junnarkar Seattle Court Issues TRO Against Streambox  To prevent sale and distribution of sreaming technology products Microsystems, Mattel v. Scandanavia Online, Skala, Jahnsen: Reverse Engineering Under Attack: TRO issued in copyright suit for reverse engineering CyberPatrol content filtering system: Legal Filings Sony v. Connectix: 9th Circuit Appellate Decision  Upholding Reverse Engineering as Fair Use Eldred v. Reno: Harvard Law Profs Challenge Copyright Term Extension Act L E G A L   D O C U M E N T S Harvard OpenLaw - Copyright's Commons R.I.A.A. v. Diamond Multimedia Systems: 'RIO is a Lawful Device' Rules U.S. Court of Appeals June 15, 1999 Law Suit Against Diamond Multimedia & RIO Thrown Out.  Court Affirms "Space-Shifting" as Legitimate Fair Use and that  Computers are Exempt From AHRA. Ninth Circuit Rules RIAA's Arguments Lack Common Sense. Read the ruling here. RIAA Statement on Lost Legal Battle April 26, 1999: Court rules case against R.I.A.A. for antitrust violations and defamation will proceed.  R.I.A.A.'s Motion to Dismiss Diamond's counterclaims was DENIED by the District Court for C. D. of California.  Diamond Multimedia's Opposition to R.I.A.A.'s Motion to Dismiss Diamond's Antitrust Counterclaims RIAA/Diamond Settle Lawsuit By Doug Reece ____________________________________ 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Oral Argument - April 15, 1999 Appeal Brief for Defendant-Appellee DIAMOND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS Appeal Brief for Plaintiff-Appellant R.I.A.A. FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association as AMICUS CURIAE in support of the Judgment below __________________________  Order Denying R.I.A.A. Preliminary Injunction & TRO by District Court Judge Collins Diamond Multimedia's Answer to Complaint and Counterclaims Against R.I.A.A. Diamond Multimedia's Brief Opposing Temporary Restraining Order Diamond Multimedia's Brief Opposing Preliminary Injunction R.I.A.A.'s Application for Restraining Order against Diamond Multimedia  R.I.A.A.'s Complaint for Violation of the AHRA vs. Diamond Multimedia R.I.A.A.'s Letter to Diamond Multimedia re: Rio MP3 Player

The Digital Music Revolution & I.P. in Cyberspace News EFF's DVD Litigation Update Downtime by Law By Greg Knauss  FCC to Rule on Copyright Technology Dispute By Rony J. O'Connor Is Litigation The Best Way To Tame New Technology? By Adam Liptak The Right to Read By Richard Stallman More Napster-Friendly Briefs By Reuters Time Warner posts a link it had banned By Ryan Tate ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION AGAINST 2600 By Emmanuel Goldstein Napster Forcing Music Industry to Change Its Money-Making Tune By Esther Dyson Judge Denies Injunction Against Tickets.com By Thor Olavsrud Industry Groups Knock Napster Ruling By Elizabeth Wasserman Hollywood to Home Viewer: We Own You By Rob Pegoraro Groups Support Napster File-Sharing By Ron Harris Whose Intellectual Property Is It, Anyway? The Open Source War By Peter Wayner Needlepoint Napster By Amy Geier DeCSS Leads to Coding of Another Kind By Gavin Sherry Only News That's Fit to Link By Declan McCullagh Digital Copyright Act comes back to haunt consumers By Dan Gillmor Legal Tips For Your 'Sucks' Site By Oscar S. Cisneros DeCSS Ruling: Free Speech at Stake By Peter Coffee In a Dander Over DVD Decision By Sam Costello Judge expands on Napster shutdown order By John Borland Inside the DeCSS trial By Deborah Durham-Vichr Chasing Hollywood 'Pirates' By David Streitfeld & Ariana Eunjung Cha 4 The Love Of Music By Prince MPAA lacks evidence in DVD cracking case By John Borland States Accuse Record Labels of Price Fixing By Derek Caney Digital use of movies sparks free speech fight in lawsuit By Byron Spice Making money in a "copyright-free" world By Jerry Brito DVD-CCA Sues Over T-Shirts By Robert Lemos The Economics of Recorded Music: From Free Market to Just Plain Free By Peter DiCola Fate of Hackersâ Hero Now in Judgeâs Hands By Jeff Howe DVD-Cracking Lawsuit Targets T-Shirt-Borne Code By Steven Bonisteel  Street Performer Protocal and Digital Copyrights By John Kelsey and Bruce Schneier Court to Address DeCSS T-Shirt By Farhad Manjoo Free Speech Rights for Computer Code? By Amy Harmon DVD trial testimony ends with the First Amendment By Associated Press Napster Wins Appeal Reversing Injunction By Sounni de Fontenay Music industry can't win By Dan Gillmor Hollywood looks to kill hyperlinks in copyright fights By John Borland For Many Online Music Fans, Court Ruling Is Call to Arms By Amy Harmon Norwegian Teenager Appears at Hacker Trial He Sparked By Carl Kaplan Just Like Old Times in Berkeley By Y. Peter Kang Hatch Warns Labels, Don't Make Me Come Over There and Spank You Charles C. Mann Some myths about intellectual property FIRING BLANKS By Jeff Howe DVD Depositions Suggest MPAA Had Little Evidence of 'Irreparable Harm' By Mike Godwin Order To Delete Web Material Raises First Amendment Concerns By Mealey Publications Free speech at issue in DVD piracy suits By Mike Snider Rambling Through Legal Web Sites By Carl S. Kaplan Napster set to fight RIAA request to pull songs By Reuters EFF Executive Director Shari Steele's Reply to Jack Valenti NY Times Op-Ed - June 21, 2000 EFF: Exempt DVDs from DMCA By Robin Gross June 23, 2000 Look Out, Napster: Here Come the Music Publishers By Jon O'Hara Chuck D Criticizes MP3.com Chief For Siding With RIAA Against Napster By Richard B. Simon Movie Studios Attack 'Internet VCR' Dot-Com By Dugie Standeford A New Politics of Intellectual Property MP3 2000 Summit, June 21, 2000 By Pamela Samuelson 'Sound Advice' From Ice-T By Julene Snyder The Invisible Songwriter By Marilyn Bergman Colored Text, Gray Issue By John Roemer British firm demands fees for hyperlink patent By Bloomberg News AUDIO of VALENTI DEPO: Real Audio Stream The Limits of Copyright By Lawrence Lessig Court Refuses to Extend RICO to Patent Claims By IP Weekly Samplers of music on Internet  buy CDs in stores, study says By Anna Wilde Mathews MP3 Must Be 'A Better Drug' By Brad King Entertainment Co's Sue "Virtual VCR", RecordTV.com By Gary Gentil  When DVD Is Too Good to Be Legal By Leander Kahney Studios Take Down Little Man With Big Site By Mark Armstrong Matsushita, Sony square off over flash memory By Reuters Numbers Rock 'N' Roll In Napster Dispute By Brian Ploskina Pirates of the Internet By Matt Carolan Programmers prepare an open-source MP3 By John Borland Judge Denies Studios' Bid to Keep Testimony Off the Web By Mike Godwin MPAA Suit Shuts Down Internet TV Site By Christopher Stern Is Linking Illegal? By Carl S. Kaplan Study Shows Webcasters Drive Music Sales By DIMA Missing Links By Brenda Sandburg Napster's Good? Bad? Er, What...? By Brad King Movie Chief Mum on DVD Piracy By Declan McCullagh EVEN JACK DOESN'T KNOW JACK Courtney Love does the math By Courtney Love The latest in anti-piracy efforts: keystroke recognition By John Borland Intellectual rights may be Net casualty By Diane Francis Technology creates threat to economy By Dan Gillmor Record Labels Are Hearing an Angry Song Some Musicians Joining Napster's Bandwagon By Alec Foege Mine, All Mine By Jenna Greene One band's piracy is another's treasure By Jefferson Graham New School of Thought on Piracy By Brad King Court kills key parts of bulk email law By Evan Hansen Microsoft says Web site violates copyright By Ann Harrison Free Speech Advocates Claim Win In DVD Pre-trial Scuffle By Steven Bonisteel Scholar Fears That Banning Online Recordings Could Lead to Banning Ideas, Too By Scott Carlson Web 'Pirates' Unearth Treasure: Hit Films; Industry Gears Up to Prevent Copying By Paul Farhi THE QUIET MAN Hollywood Fights to Seal Jack Valentiâs Testimony By Jeff Howe  Unfair Use Call it the Digital Millennium Censorship Act By Julie E. Cohen Who's Next? Maybe it's me. By Declan McCullagh Pirates Rising By Joe Ashbrook Warned by the Music Industry, Web Site Files Suit By Matt Richtel MP3Board sues to protect links to files By Howard Mintz NARM Poses Baseline Principles For E-Commerce In Music Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Pirated MP3s By John Warner NAPSTER'S SIDE OF THE STORY In Fight Over Anonymity, John Doe Starts Slugging By Carl S. Kaplan Television Site Says It Has Solutions to Copyright Problems By Barry Brown CHECK OUT: Coalition for the Future of Music Napster.com and the Death of the Music Industry By John Perry Barlow DVDCCA and the Big Lie By Eric S. Raymond MP3 Cases Draw First Boundary Lines for Music Copying on Internet By Hillel I. Parness The truth about the DVD case From Blade Encoder The DMCA: A Flawed Law By Dean R. Pannell Licence to thrill By Barry Fox Congressman Takes Shot At Henley By Jonathan Cohen Hearing spotlights clash between open source and copyright protection By Ann Harrison EU delays vote on digital copyright protection By Elizabeth de Bony Jelly Roll Morton Tribute Judge Halts eBay's Unwanted Hits By Brenda Sandburg Musicians Take Copyright Issue to Congress By Jon Pareles FEED Mag: RE: Garbus Online Music Industry Tells Congress to Leave It Alone By Jeri Clausing MPAA Response Henley Sees New Hope in 'Work-for-Hire' Struggle By Mark Brown Report Proposes Update of Copyright Act By Jeri Clausing Proposal to curb fair use  of digital data is bad news By Dan Gillmor Techies Wage War On Copyright Cartels By Robert Lemos Internet Storage, Web Navigation and Copyright Law By Mark D. Robins Red Hat funds copyright fight By Robert Lemos Gnutella and Freenet Represent True Technological Innovation By Andy Oram Metallica Sends More Names to Napster By Jane Ganahl Napster: Popular Program Raises Devilish Issues By Erik Nilsson Courtney Love Wages War on Major Labels By CHRISTINA SARACENO  Record Companies Pulling A REAL SWINDLE Digital Millennium Copyright Act protest at Stanford University - May 18, 2000 MUST SEE: NAPSTER BAD Metallica Parody By Chaos Cartoons Tuning Up Digital Copyright Law By Brad King Think Napster -- Only For Movies By Bob Sullivan DeCSS Gag Injunction Appealed By Wired News Report Embrace, extend, censor By Andrew Leonard Banned Napster users strike back By Marilynn Wheeler EFF Challenges Ban on DVD Software EFF presses court to lift injunction and challenges linking ban -- May 4, 2000 Digital Music: Problems and Possibilites By William Fisher Battle Brews Over Reverse Engineering By Ann Harrison Microsoft wants to censor some open-source postings By Ian Fried and Jim Hu Copyright as Censorship By Jon Wiener RIAA 1, Napster 0 By Eric Boehlert Free Speech Touted in DVD Cracking Case By Evan Hansen DVD Cyberbattles - Suppressing the Better Mousetrap By Allonn E. Levy Media industry's business model must evolve or die By Dan Gilmor MPAA v. 2600: Access to Information is Not a Crime By Ben Berkowitz Link Ban 'Threatens Free Speech' By Declan McCullagh DOWN BY LAW By Jeff Howe Metallica on MP3-Swap Services: Kill 'Em All By Michael Learmonth and Hane C. Lee First Amendment Lawyer Takes on Movie Studios in DVD Case By Carl Kaplan Digital Millennium Copyright Act Spurs Controversy  By Mike Godwin MP3.com Loses to the Recording Industry By Jon Healy MP3.com Shares Sour after Copyright Violation Decision By Sarah Lai Stirlan Lawsuit Holds ISPs Liable for Content By Max Smettanikov Music Lawsuits Bring Down the Hammer By Sarah Lai Stirland RIAA Wins Suit Against MP3.com By Brad King SDMI: Shape Up or Ship  Out By Christopher Jones Litman Decries Overbroad Copyright Protection By Mike Godwin Italian Piracy Ruling Angers Software Makers By Philip Willan Letter from a Disillusioned Metallica Fan By Ali Kazemi German Court Holds AOL Responsible for Music Piracy By John T. Aquino Has the Time for Copyright Passed? By Steven Arnold Despite 'Piracy,' CD Sales Up By Brad King Reproduction of Photo in Commentary Is Fair Use By IP Weekly Scrambled Signals By Mike Godwin Webcasting's Defining Moment By Brad King MPAA SEEKS TO OUTLAW LINKING TO DECSS By 2600 Intellectual Property Experts Discuss Legal Reactions to Digital Revolution By Mike Godwin Hollywood's War on Open-Source By Lisa Bowman Copy-Protected CDs Taken Back By Chris Oakes DiMA Petitions Gov't to Issue Rulemaking on Music over the Internet Preliminary Statement and Need for Rulemaking By DiMA This File Will Self-Destruct -- NOW! By Todd Spangler I want my MP3 By Chad Swiatecki Metallica Rips Napster By Christopher Jones Coops Corner: The Napster Face By Charles Cooper Dueling Over Digital Music Rights By Christopher Jones eBay, Bidder's Edge Face Off in Court By Troy Wolverton Getting Snooped On? Too Bad By Declan McCullagh Auction Dispute Centers  on Question of Control  Over Data By Carl S. Kaplan Broadcasters Seek Exemption from Webcasting License By DiMA DVDs: Cease and DeCSS? By Wendy Grossman Is MP3 Music a Perishable Product? By Richard Menta Amazon Goes to War Over Music Patents By Robert Conlin First Amendment Lawyers Take on DVD Cracking Case By Patricia Jacobus Napster Suit Tests New Copyright Law By Evan Hansen John Perry Barlow's Long, Strange Trip By Leslie Katz EFF Appeals DVD Injunction By David McGuire Programming Languages Covered by First Amendment By Patricia Jacobus ISPs Responsible For Pirated Music, Says German Court By Steve Gold Swap MP3s, Go to Jail? By Tom Spring Judge Allows Startups to Link to Big Rivals By Associated Press Legality of 'Deep Linking' Remains Deeply Complicated By Carl S. Kaplan Metallica Files Copyright Lawsuit By Ron Harris Privacy Advocates Hail Crypto Ruling By Ann Harrison Battling Censorware By Lawrence Lessig Broadcasters Sue Recording Industry Over Internet Reuters Recording Industry Goes To Court to Battle Napster By Benny Evangelista Mattel Suit Takes GNU Twist By Declan McCullagh Innovation, Regulation, and The Internet By Lawrence Lessig Linux Users to Protest DMCA in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 28 Battle Brews on Rights to Web Content By Sam Allis Now Showing on DVD: Loopholes By Daniel Greenberg China Bans MP3s Citing Piracy Concerns, Government Cracks Down Associated Press McCartney Sues MP3.com By Allyson Lieberman DVD Content Illegally Copied Off Playstation 2 By Yoshiko Hara MP3öCatching Up With Gen Y By Dave Einstein Former Beattle's Publishing House Sues MP3.com Reuters CyperPatrol Hackers Lose Round By Declan McCullagh Greed Undermines Benefits of Digital Technology By Dan Gillmor Crackers and Crackdowns By Jason Kroll Local Music Online Gets a Scratchy Reception  By Robert Homason MPAA CONTINUES INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN Open-Source 'Napster' Shut Down By Christopher Jones Case Illustrates Entertainment Industry's Copyright Power By Denise Caruso Napster Grows Up By Julie Landry In A Virtual World, Who Owns Ideas? By Jon Katz Students Flunk IP Rights 101 By Victoria Slind-Flor Powerful Music Software Has Industry Worried By Amy Harmon 2 Team Up Against Music Piracy By Tom Quinlan Protected or Locked Out? Foes of copyright act say it hampers Net's growth By Bruce Haring MP3 Revolution: Rhetoric or Real? By Chris Oakes File-Sharing PC Software Shakes Up Music World By Greg Miller EFF Comments on DMCA to Copyright Office: Recommends Exempting DVD, SDMI From Circumvention Ban By Robin D. Gross Cyberspace Prosecutor By Lawrence Lessig THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: Intellectual Property in the Digital Age STEAL THAT TUNE And starve the industry that cheats musicians By Mark Fleischmann Search Engine Images Attract Copyright Suit By Davian Maharaj Students Against University Censorship MTVi in Copyright Dispute with Sony, EMI  By Michael Learmonth Software Patents Tangle the Web  By Seth Shulman Copy Protection Proposed for Digital Displays By David Lammers Opposing Adoption of the UCITA By IEEE Judge May Be Hollywood's Friend in Fight Over DVD Code By Carl S. Kaplan DMCA Misinterpreted in DVD Case By Eric Seppanen MP3  Free-For-All By Janelle Brown CRIMINAL CODE? By C. Scott Ananian Another CBS Digital Furor By Mark K. Anderson Hackers Are the Real Victims -- of Industry Greed By Earann Gat Copy Catfight How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture By Jesse Walker Interview with Jon Johansen: Norwegian teenager and his father indicted By J.S. Kelly The Digital Millenium Copyright Act: A Corporate Bully Bludgeon By Arne Flones Learn From the Libraries By Jim Griffin The Copyright Boomerang By Peter Wayner DVD Prosecutions: a case of Hollywood's scrambled logic By Steve Crawford Valenti Charges iCraveTV with 'Brazen' Cyberpiracy By Dugie Standeford Norwegian Teen Raided by Police in DVD Suit CNN DVD Desperadoes: Are the Hackers Unfairly Prosecuted? By Harvey A. Silverglate Lawsuits Cloud DVD Player by Robert Lemos DVD Open Forum Minus the Forum By Jeff Howe Digital Dupes By Benny Evangelista Fade to Black By Jeff Howe I want my DVD, Your Honor By Dean Pannell Web Links at Issue in LDS Lawsuit By Steven Oberbeck Three Netizens Silenced by Motion Picture Industry in Early DVD Court Order DVD Suit Detours New Legal Ground: Industry group ducks free speech issues of Web site owners By Howard Mintz No Ruling in Real, Streambox Lawsuit  By Jim Hu Netizens Unite Against Big Business Over DVDs By Dan Gillmor DVD Lawsuit Raises Internet Free Speech Issue By Ann Harrison Free Speech Wins One By Dan Gilmor Ban on DVD Hack Rejected By Deborah Kong Etoy Balks at Olive Branch By Steve Kettmann DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now DVD Round 1 Goes to Hackers By Chris Oakes Predicting the Legal Internet Issues for 2000 By Carl S. Kaplan Digital Audio Lawsuit Could Set Precedent By Sara Robinson Real Throws Curve at Streambox By Rosanna Kandel No Santa for Internet Music Industry This Year By Scott Hillis RealNetworks Sues Streambox.com By Michael Learmonth A Real River of Music - To Go By Christopher Jones Leonardo da Cyber Controversy By Lindsey Arent Online Journal Publisher Raided by Police:  Leonardo Art/Science Network under Legal Attack for Use of the Word "Leonardo" Korean MP3 Player Consortium to be Formed By MP3.com Court Ruling Denies Copyright Protection For Images On The Net By 7am News Battling the Free Music Movement By Christopher Jones 'Be Grateful for Etoy' By Steve Kettmann The Real Deal: Music Industry in Denial Over Privacy Concerns By Robin D. Gross, EFF Record Labels Hammer China By Reuters Sony, Time Warner Face the Music on CD Pricing By Bloomberg News Copyright Ruling Targets Web Links By Stephen Lawson Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link By Carl S. Kaplan Those Crazy Cassingles By Kurt B. Reighley U.S. Stations Battle Canadian Net TV Firm By John Borland Digital Music Will Cost You By John Gartner Legal Squabbles in Path of Internet By Anne Eisenberg Networks Launch Lawsuit Against TV web Site By CBC News U. of Piracy By Doug Reece Anti-piracy Specs for MP3 Players Too Late for Holiday Rush By Erik Espe Online TV Service May Spark New Net Battle By John Borland Record Labels, Webcasters In Arbitration By Steven Vonder Haar A Score for Online Music  By Christopher Jones Web Sites and Recording Labels at Impasse on Fees By Matt Richtel When Technology Changes, Rules Must, Too By Christopher Stern Digital Music: An Update  By Michael Dortch Probation Conditions Handed to Student Convicted of Illegally Distributing MP3s By Chris Nelson Music Industry Fails to Meet Target for Start of Online Sales By Matt Richtel Activist Defends DVD Hack By Ann Harrison MP3s Appear To Be Helping Album Sales By Chris Nelson Search and Destroy: iMesh Goes Hunting By Brian Copperman Cease and DeCSS: DVD's Encryption Code Cracked By Dana J. Parker Movie Trade Group Tries to Block DVD Cracking Tool By Courtney Macavinta DVD Encryption Break is a Good Thing By Bruce Schneier Technology Puts the Recording Studio on a Hard Drive By Andrew Hearst MB-5 Show Sparks Spirited  Debates By Peter Finestone RIAA Suing Upstart Startup By Jennifer Sullivan Creative Secures MP3 Player By Christopher Jones Napster Plays Dodge Ball with Music Biz By Robert Lemos A Real River of Music -- To Go By Christopher Jones Lawgirl Reports From the Trenches of Digital Distribution and the Music Industry By Jodi Sax Real Hit With Another Privacy Lawsuit By Brian McWilliams CM Student Newspaper Story on College Music Sting: Computing Services Reprimands Students By Sara Stille Carnegie Mellon Accuses 71 Students of Music Piracy, Unplugs Their Intranet  Links By Peter Schmidt RealNetworks Is Target of Suit in California Over Privacy Issue New Privacy Glitch Snares Real By Chris Oakes and Jennifer Sullivan Digital Dilemma NRC Report Favors Education Over Legislation By Giselle Smith Legislators Should Go Slow on Electronic Copyright Laws National Academies Report www.googoodolls.spat By Geoff Bouch Listen to Streaming Media Talk's Discussion on Real Network's Surveillance Activities RealNetworks Faces Real Backlash By Jeremy M. Helfgot Real Jukebox Violates Users Privacy By Sara Robinson Napster: Music Is for Sharing By Jennifer Sullivan Do We Really Have to Sue the RIAA???? From Negativeland NEGATIVLAND'S TENETS OF FREE APPROPRIATION Our Rap With ASCAP By Eric Scheirer Rockin' the Boat By N'Gai Croal and Andrew Murr Dowloading MP3s Will Make You Go Blind, Warn BPI Music Industry Announces Global Crackdown on Internet Pirates By IFPI (MP3.com) Studios Scramble to Prevent Net Piracy By John Borland Music Battle Takes to the Hill By Declan McCullagh Music Industry to Present Net Fears to Policymakers     By Evan Hansen Wake-up Call for Webcasters By Doug Reece LATEST: Deadline Extended until Dec. 1, 1999 to Submit Notice Chuck D: 'Gotta Share the Tunes' By Christopher Rice The End of SDMI By Eric Scheirer Who's Gonna Own the Music? By Jennifer Sullivan Music Regs: A Bagful of Noise By Jennifer Sullivan RIAA Continues Misinformation Campaign By Bob Starrett Swedish Court Exonerates Teen of Internet Music Piracy By Robin D. Gross Label Gets Top Spot With Online Spin By Chuck Philips Bringing It All Back Home: Are Home Recorders the Answer for Audio? By Robert A. Starrett Burning CDs the RIAA Way By Christopher Jones Recording Industry Escalates Crackdown on Digital Piracy By Sara Robinson Digital Nation: As SDMI Lags, Portables Push On By Chris Nelson MP3 Gets U.K. Boost By Polly Sprenger The Format Frenzy In Digital Music By Mike Musgrove and Robert Thomason Infighting Threatens to Kill Net Music Antipiracy Standard By Stephanie Miles SDMI Looks Certain to Miss Christmas Product Deadline By Junko Yoshida Sony's Music Tollbooth By Jennifer Sullivan Face the music: Record Execs Slowly Embrace Net By Gemma Tarlach Labels to Artists: Weownyou.com By Arik Hesseldahl 'Digital Storage Locker' for Music Downloads By Tim Race Reinventing the Music Business By Bill Machrone The Problem With Music  By Steve Albini eBay: The Day The MusicDied By Doug Reece Recording Industry Gives Peasce a Chance By James Lardner Virgin to Unveil Online Music Service By Beth Lipton SDMI Faces New Issues By Doug Reece Sony Seeks Musician Domain Names for Life By Beth Lipton E-Music Founder Says No Answer to MP3 E-Piracy By Sylvia Dennis - Newsbytes EFF: Piracy Not the Problem By Andrew Rice Technology Has Music Cos. Singing A New Tune By Malcolm Maclachlan Panel on DDMI Conference Byte Week in Review (Real Audio File) The Real Digital Music Revolution By Eric Scheirer Swede Sued for Web Music Piracy By Susanna Loof Giving The Gift Of Music By Kevin Doran Net Digital Recording Going Through Growing Pains By iDigitalMusicBiz Musicians Want an Internet Revolution By Jon Pareles Rapper Finds Space to Jam Online By Bruce Haring Digital Music Pioneers Dispute Patent By Malcolm Maclachlan Dolby Says It's Payback Time By Matt Welch Mob Turns to Software Piracy By Joseph Panettieri DDMI: Music's Words of War By Andrew Rice Internet's New Guard in Music Industry Brings Vision to Online Security Debate By Alex Fowler and Robin Gross PlayMP3Station By Doug Reece Court Upholds Right to Digital Music By Robin D. Gross MP3 Cental By Time Digital Give Away Tunes, Make Money? By Jennifer Sullivan MS Audio Gets "Unfucked" By Doug Reece Get Out Your Checkbooks Watermarks Don't Grow on Trees An MP3.com Editorial SDMI Phase I License Agreement By MP3.com Copyright Protection on the Internet By Robin Gross The Public's Right of Fair Use By Robin Gross MP3 Audio By Bruce Young Indie Artists Fight Back!!! By David Morley Bay Area Struggles to Define Next Revolution By Andi Zeisler & Josh Wilson SDMI: Aris Wins, World Loses By David Weekly The Psychology of Online Music By David Weekly The Offspring: The Net's Most Pirated Band By Jennifer Gross Chuck D Fights the Power in Hollywood By Joanna Pearlstein SDMI Announces Watermark By Doug Reece Demand MP3: The Future Is Riding On It By Michael Robertson Glut Yourself On More SDMI Dirt An mp3.com Editorial Record Boss Plans Online Showcase By BBC RIAA/Diamond Settle Lawsuit By Doug Reece Listen to John Perry Barlow's Keynote Speech at MP3 Summit on Copyright & Music Windows Media Player (ClickHere Prods.) 28kpbs56kpbs100kpbs Grassroots Initiative of Artists and Fans Protests SDMI Open Music Format Petition By Doug Reece NPR's All Things Considered Filed this Report on MP3 and the Music Industry (Listen in Real Audio) Research: MP3s Sell CDs Chris Oakes Ear Training: A Digital Music Primer By Matt Richtel and Sara Robinson Music Piracy Standards Set By Matt Richtel Webcast Fee Talks Headed For Stalemate By Dan Goodin SDMI Spec Restricts CD Copying By Chris Oakes Record and Electronics Industries Agree on Digital Music Guidelines By Robert Thomason Oh, And One More Thing... By Doug Reece In Court's View, MP3 Player is Just a 'Space Shifter' By Carl S. Kaplan SDMI on SDMI:  Q & A with Chiariglione By Oscar S. Cisneros SDMI Countdown By Doug Reece The Empire Strikes Back By Jon Katz Can't Stop the Music By David Futrelle  What Will Be the Net Effect? By Geoff Boucher Popularity, Sources of Web Music Growing By Patrick Cole Revolution in Music Marketing By CBS Worldwide Securing Digital Ditties By Oscar S. Cisneros Music Licenser Shakes Down Web By Polly Sprenger Questions Abound on Downloading Digital Music By Matt Richtel Secure Music Standard: Watershed or Vapor-Spec? By The Industry Standard RIAA Commits Legal Hara-Kiri By Philip S. Corwin The Online Artist is the Empowered Artist By Heidi Kriz Watershed for Digital Music By Oscar S. Cisneros SDMI Word Of The Day: Revocation By Anonymous Are Music Companies Blinded by Fright? By Steven V. Brull Court Gives "Go-Ahead" to Digital Music Revolution By Robin D. Gross MP3 Summit Sounds Old Theme: Bury Labels By Beth Lipton MP3 Summit Roundup By Ram Samudrala Don't Tell Me How to Listen By James Glave Diamond Looks Forward By Jeremy M. Helfgot The Name Game By Brett Atwood Court OKs Internet MP3  Music Recorders By Yahoo News Web Site Cuts Deal With Songwriters: MP3.com Licensed to Play Copyrighted Tunes By Robert Thomason and Rob Pegoraro Rio Music to Ninth Circuit's Ears: Digital recording device doesn't violate music piracy laws, court rules By Brenda Sandburg Activist Blasts Recording Industry On MP3's Behalf By Yahoo News Making an Ally of Piracy By Jaron Lanier EFF Launches Digital Music Campaign By Yahoo News MP3 Device Makers Win Key Court Ruling By Dawn Kawamoto German MP3 Sites Shut Down By Mary Lisbeth D'Amico Online Music Gets A Boost By Malcolm Maclachlan U.K. Cyber Liberties Group Launches MP3 Freedom Initiative The MP3 Killer Gathers Steam By Joe Ashbrook Nickell Civil Liberties Group Weighs in on the Issue of Digital Music Distribution By Michael Fitzgerald Sights & Sounds with Chuck D By Brett Atwood The Music Industry Countdown By Christopher Jones Digital Watermarking Showdown By Junko Yoshida Difficulties in Downloading By Neil Strauss Japanese Police Make First MP3 Piracy Arrest By Newsbyte Sony Tries to Lock in Artists By Lessley Anderson Deadheads, Log On! Band Backs MP3 Format By Stephen Peters EFF Tunes In to Digital Music By Christopher Jones Online Music Gets Backing From Chaos By Kirsty Needham No Fear of an MP3 Planet By Janelle Brown SDMI: Nothing but FUD By Jeremy Nusbaum SDMI: Part 2 By Jeremy Nusbaum   Offspring Sing Praises for the Digital Ages By James Oliver Cury  RIAA Loses Court Battle Over Royalties By Bloomberg News The MP 3 Artist By David Weekly Distribution Revolution By Christopher Jones Just Say Know To FUD By Michael Robertson FUD 101 Eric Lee Green SDMI Update By Doug Reece Music for the Masses by James Glave  Listen to Real Audio file  of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" on MP3 SDMI Trigger Effect By Brett Atwood Digital Nation: Music's Future May Be In Your Head Chris Nelson MP3 Battle is the Same Old Song By David Simons  Music Biz Builds A Time Bomb By Christopher Jones You Say You Want An Internet Revolution? By Michael Goldberg SDMI Secret Dealings: Deep Throat Tells All By Anonymous Digital Nation: RIAA Turns A Corner On Net Piracy By Chris Nelson Intellectual Value By Esther Dyson Swedish Retailer Pushes MP3 By Christopher Jones Keeping the Menace Down Wired News Report A Chance to Break the Pop Stranglehold By Neil Strauss Star Wars Rekindles Net Debate By Dan Goodin Fees For Webcasting Take Shape By Doug Reece Secure Online Music: To Be or Not to Be? By Lessley Anderson Glaser: MP3 Format Will Snowball By Matthew Broersma Lawsuit Extends Controversy Over MP3 Format By Cyrus Afzali Tougher Net Piracy Law Backed By Chris Nuttall Music Fans Flock to MP3 While the Industry Frets By Lou Carlozo Universal Unveils Global Download Distribution Plan By Chris Nelson New System for PC Music Stirs Recording Industry's Piracy Concerns By John Markoff Pirate-Proof Music on Web? So Far, That Does Not Compute By Neil Strauss Can Technology Put MP3 Genie Back in Bottle? By Brenda Sandburg MP3: Out of the Bottle  A letter to music company executives By Robert Seidman MP3: Sound and Fury Special Report By news.com MP3 to the Barricades By Jennifer Sullivan MP3 and Vietnam By Lawrence E. Feldman Race For The De Facto Digital Download Standard By Brett Atwood Spring Internet World By Doug Reece Music Broadcasting Revolution By Janelle Brown Technology You Can Dance To By Neil Strauss The Code Is the Law By Lawrence Lessig Music Giants Fight a Corporate War Online By Lessley Anderson MP3 Foes Cussing Out in DC By Declan McCullagh Second Class Citizens? By Doug Reece The Digital Music Revolution By Robin D. Gross Free Music on the Web Spreads from Campus  to Office By Neil Strauss They Don't Get the Web: The RIAA vs. MP3 By D. Fiedler The RIAA's Numbers Racket By Jordan Raphael Technology Powershift By Jeremy Wilker Recording Industry in Denial By Rob Landley Is the DMCA Constitutional? Consumer Rights vs. Encryption By Brad Biddle 3 Music Companies Press for Prosecution of MP3 Bloomberg News/ NY Times Music Industry Blames MP3 for Sagging Sales By Beth Lipton Can Music Be Secure? By Michael Robertson Rosen Defends RIAA to Wired Media By Jennifer Sullivan Diamond Multimedia Counter Sues RIAA for Antitrust, Defends RIO on Free Speech Grounds By Chris Stamper Music Industry's Most Controversial Issue Chuck D and Vin Rock Speak Out About the Internet By Davey D The Future of Music: I've seen the future and it will be . . . A battle between the Cathedral and the Bazaar By Ram Samudrala

Secure Digital Music Initiative SDMI Information DMAT  Digital Music Access Technology (DMAT) is the TM for products that are compliant with SDMI specifications. DE SDMI EFF ANNOUNCES BOYCOTT OF SDMI HACKER CHALLENGE Hackers Reject SDMI 'Contest' By Don Marti Audio engineers ruffled by SDMI's spec work By Margaret Quan Three Lessons From DVD for SDMI By Eric Scheirer SDMI issues phase II RFPs for audio players By Margaret Quan SDMI Call for Proposals of Phase II Screening Technology Is SDMI a Consumer's Nightmare? By Cliff SDMI Chief: Fans Could Face 20 Music Formats By Sonicnet The End of SDMI By Eric Scheirer SDMI Response By Leonardo Chiariglione SDMI Phase I License Agreement - Aris SDMI Approves Technology Selection and Trademark License Agreement SDMI Anticipated Technical Functionality of Phase 2 Screening of Digital Audio Content SDMI Device Specification Part 1 - Version 1.0 Amendment 1 to SDMI Device Specification RIAA's Guide to SDMI Device Specification Want to Participate in SDMI? Click here SDMI Calls for Proposals for Portable Devices SDMI Monthly Calendar Eligibility and How to Join SDMI SDMI Terms of Participation SDMI Proposed Working Group Structure SDMI Statement on Antitrust SDMI Final Terms Announcement Most SDMI information isinaccessible to the general public. __________________________  Cyberspace & Intellectual Property Laws The U.S. Copyright Act John Young's Awesome DMCA Collection Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 U.S. Copyright Office Summary of DMCA (pdf) No Electronic Theft Act of 1997 Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in Sony v. Universal City (Betamax case) The California Optical Disc Identifier Act of 1998 A.C.L.U. v. Reno Supreme Court Decision Pamela Samuelson's Writings Jessica Litman's Cyberspace Law Class Update Harvard Law School's Berkman Center on MP3 Lawrence Lessig's Home Page & Writings READ THIS BOOK: Code is Law Bernt Hugenholtz's IP Writings Negativland's Intellectual Property Resources Fair Use: Stanford Libraries Copyright Commons Open Law Project Eldred v. Reno - Challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act WIPO Intellectual Property Info Terry Carroll's Copyright Resource Page WHEN WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN TABLE Track Pending Cyberspace Legislation White v. Samsung (Dissent) 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) The First U.S Copyright Act (1790) ____________________________________ Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Copyright By John Perry Barlow In The Atlantic Round I Round II Round III  Round I: Opening Remarks By Lawrence Lessig __________________________  Journal Articles Exploring Copyright Law in Cyberspace: Intellectual Property And The Digital Economy: Why The Anti-Circumvention Regulations Need To Be Revised By Pamela Samuelson The Demonization of Piracy By Jessica Litman The Exclusive Right to Read By Jessica Litman Outlawing Technology By Barbara Simons Digital Copyright and Information Policy By Jessica Litman Some Reflections On Copyright Management Systems and Laws Designed to Protect Them By Julie E. Cohen Copyright Noncompliance (or why we can't "Just say yes" to licensing) By Jessica Litman The Great Internet Panic: How Digitization is Deforming Copyright Law By Anne K. Fujita A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at "Copyright Management" In Cyberspace  By Julie E. Cohen Copyright and Censorship: Past as Prologue? By Pamela Samuelson Shifting the Possible: How Trusted Systems and Digital Property Rights Challenge Us to Rethink Digital Publishing By Mark Stefik Fair Use Vs. Fared Use: The Impact of Automated Rights Management on Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine By Tom W. Bell Misuse or Fair Use: That is the Software Copyright Question By James A.D. White Reforming Information Law in Copyright's Image by Jessica Litman,  Univ. Dayton Law Review 1997 Copyright and the "Exclusive" Rights of Authors by L. Rey Patterson The Intellectual Property Renaissance in Cyberspace  Why Copyright Law Could Become Unimportant on the Internet by Eric Schlachter  Berkeley Tech Law Journal The Copyright Grab By Pamela Samuelson Articles on Intellectaul Property By Ram Samudrala The Economy of Ideas by John Perry Barlow Revising Copyright for the Information Age By Jessica Litman Using Digital Locks in Invention Development By Howard Anawalt ____________________________________ BASF Panel: How Soon is Now? Cutting Edge Issues for the Digital Music Revolution Chuck D Challenges RIAA and SF Attorneys Over MP3 By Robin D. Gross Info on BASF March 4th panel discussion on the Digital Music Revolution Click here for BASF panel handbook materials available on the Web ____________________________________   "The Haight Street Beat" "The Digital Dialectic"   ____________________________________