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  • November 2007

    • Pirate Act to Take Senate Floor, Again

      CNET  |  Nov 8, 07 1:55 PM CST

      Pirate Act to Take Senate Floor, Again

      (Newser) - Legislation that would enable the Justice Department to prosecute those who partake in peer-to-peer copyright infringement is coming before Congress—for the fourth time—now sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy and John Conryn. But while it's popular among lawmakers and corporate copyright holders alike, the Pirate Act hasn't seen too much love in the Justice Department itself, CNET writes. More »

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      Department of Justice  • copyright  • Patrick Leahy  • piracy  • Recording Industry Association of America  • Orrin Hatch  • John Cornyn  • Motion Picture Association of America

    • Oregon Moves to Quash RIAA Subpoenas

      Ars Technica  |  Nov 2, 07 3:08 PM CDT

      Oregon Moves to Quash RIAA Subpoenas

      (Newser) - The University of Oregon will support 17 students the RIAA accused of illegal file-sharing. Represented by the Oregon Attorney General's office, the university requested a federal judge invalidate the RIAA's subpoena seeking the students' names. The school argued the subpoena puts an undue burden on it to "create documents that do not exist, simply for the purposes of discovery," Ars Technica reports. More »

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      file sharing  • Oregon  • Recording Industry Association of America  • Copyright Act

  • October 2007

    • Campaign Against Music Piracy Goes to First Trial

      Wired  |  Oct 1, 07 11:42 AM CDT

      Campaign Against Music Piracy Goes to First Trial

      (Newser) - The recording industry has initiated over 20,000 lawsuits against individuals since it launched its zero-tolerance copyright campaign against file-sharing in 2003, but never before has one gone to trial. Now a jury will decide whether a young mother illegally distributed 1,702 audio files on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa. More »

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      copyright  • file sharing  • copyright law  • Recording Industry Association of America  • p2p

  • July 2007

    • Radio Should Pay to Play, Artists Argue

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 5, 07 6:26 PM CDT

      Radio Should Pay to Play, Artists Argue

      (Newser) - It's time AM and FM radio broadcasters started paying for the music they play, a group of music industry types has decided. They're lobbying Congress to amend the federal law that has exempted terrestrial radio from paying artists' royalties for nearly a century, Business Week reports.   More »

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      music  • music industry  • radio  • musician  • artist  • digital downloads  • House Judiciary Committee  • CDs  • satellite radio  • RIAA  • mp3  • singers  • royalty  • Recording Industry Association of America  • royalties  • podcast  • web radio

  • March 2007

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