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NewsLetter | ISSN 1546-2110 | Volume # 13 | September 12, 2003
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INTERNET MOVIE NEWS
DVD copying fight
lands in UK
According to
the articles:
"A US software company is fighting moves by the
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to have the sale of its
DVD-copying software banned in the UK."
(Read More)
RIAA keeps
12-year-old quiet with $2,000 bill
According to the articles:
"The RIAA took quick steps to
blunt a public relations atrocity by agreeing to settle out of court with
a 12-year-old girl accused of trading copyrighted songs."
(Read More)
Verizon, RIAA Trade
Jabs at Senate Hearing
According to the articles:
"Representatives from Verizon
and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) staked out
familiar ground Tuesday when testifying before the Senate Judiciary
Committee on the subpoena powers of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA), but the testimony also provided a sneak preview of next week's
court appearance by the two warring parties."
(Read More)
Senator: Beware
RIAA's Amnesty Offer
According to the articles:
"U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman
(R.-Minn.), who earlier this summer questioned the Recording Industry
Association of America's (RIAA) subpoena process in its ongoing war
against music pirates, is urging caution for those tempted by the music
industry's new amnesty program."
(Read More)
Canadian file
sharers' risk low
According
to the articles:
"Canadians who download music for free from the
Internet should be cautious but not overly worried about the U.S.
recording industry's recent legal crackdown on individual file traders,
legal experts say."
(Read More)
Novato man sues RIAA
over amnesty program Suit says music industry's plan misleading
According to the
articles:
"With the recording industry suing hundreds of individual
online file sharers, a Novato man wants to turn the tables by suing the
record industry on behalf of individual consumers."
(Read More)
EU delays vote on
'Euro-DMCA'
According to the
articles:
"A vote on the EU's proposed directive on the enforcement
of intellectual property rights, which has been compared to a draconian US
law, has been pushed back to November"
(Read More)
Commentary: What's
Real and Make-Believe with the RIAA Subpoenas?
According to the articles:
"What's real and
what's make-believe about the RIAA's recent subpoena campaign and it's
newly announced "Amnesty" program?
A recent decision by the 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals finds that a party using "patently unlawful"
subpoenas to obtain access to another party's stored electronic
communications could be liable for violations of electronic privacy and
computer fraud statutes. This could have serious implications for the
RIAA's mass subpoena campaign in that, if such subpoenas were also
determined to be "patently unlawful," for whatever reason, the
organization could be held liable under electronic privacy and computer
fraud statutes for accessing user data under false pretenses. (Read a
summary of the decision.)
Does this mean, if the RIAA's subpoenas
are determined "invalid," that they are illegally snooping? It's extremely
possible. However, the DMCA subpoena law is new and there aren't many
decisions on it, so the RIAA could try to hide behind the "newness" of the
law to avoid liability for misusing it.
If the RIAA's subpoenas
were determined to be "patently unlawful," file sharers could potentially
retaliate with lawsuits for alleged electronic privacy and computer fraud
violations if the RIAA's counsel knowingly misuses the subpoena process in
order to gain access to file sharers' private information."
"Clean
Slate's Privacy Policy raises other questions. It states that "information
provided on the Clean Slate Program Affidavit will be used solely in
connection with conducting and enforcing the Clean Slate Program" and not
used for "marketing, promotional, or public relations purposes" and will
"not be made public or given to third parties, including individual
copyright owners," but then there's a big exception: "except if necessary
to enforce a participant's violation of the pledges set forth in the
Affidavit or otherwise required by law." This language, translated, means
that the affidavit records would in fact be made available to other
infringement lawsuits.
"We're calling it a 'Shamnesty.' It's more
like a Trojan Horse than a 'clean slate.' It fools you into thinking
you're safe, when the reality is that, if anything, you're more at risk
for participating," explains Jason Schultz, Staff Attorney for the EFF.
"It's not 'Full Amnesty' at all. The agreement doesn't give file sharers
any real peace of mind, because it only covers being sued by the RIAA
itself -- not any of its member companies. This means that, under the
Clean Slate agreement, recording companies, copyright owners, and music
publishers can all still sue you. It only means that the RIAA won't
'assist' them in the lawsuit. They are basically getting you to admit to
the conduct so your own statement can be used against you later.""
(Read More)
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