Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 29, 2004 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Web-cheat student to sue university
A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner.
Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, freely admits using material downloaded from the Internet to complete his assignments. He told the Times: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem."
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 27, 2004 at 11:41:00 PM CEST
More RIAA lawsuits
Just too bizarre. I'm fresh out of snarky intros. As one reader on the pho mailing list quipped, "What's next -- breaking kneecaps?"
Tammy Lafky has a computer at home but said she doesn't use it. "I don't know how," the 41-year-old woman said, somewhat sheepishly. But her 15-year-old daughter, Cassandra, does. And what Cassandra may have done, like millions of other teenagers and adults around the world, landed Lafky in legal hot water this week that could cost her thousands of dollars.Lafky, a sugar mill worker and single mother in Bird Island, a farming community 90 miles west of St. Paul, became the first Minnesotan sued by name by the recording industry this week for allegedly downloading copyrighted music illegally. The lawsuit has stunned Lafky, who earns $12 an hour and faces penalties that top $500,000. (...)
A record company attorney from Los Angeles contacted Lafky about a week ago, telling Lafky she could owe up to $540,000, but the companies would settle for $4,000. "I told her I don't have the money," Lafky said. "She told me to go talk to a lawyer and I told her I don't have no money to talk to a lawyer." Lafky said she clears $21,000 a year from her job and gets no child support.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 27, 2004 at 4:16:00 PM CEST
Die USA sagen File-Sharern den Kampf an
Ein neues Gesetz, über welches bald im US-Senat abgestimmt werden wird, soll auf File-Sharer mehr Druck ausüben. Die Befürworter des Gesetzes setzen auf den altbekannten Effekt der Abschreckung, so wie es die RIAA zur Zeit akribisch praktiziert.
Der Kern des sog. 'Pirate Act'-Gesetzes ist es, staatlichen Strafverfolgern das Einreichen von Zivilklagen zu erleichtern. Die Strafen sollen sich über mehrere 10.000 bis 100.000 Dollar erstrecken.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 24, 2004 at 10:04:00 PM CEST
Downloaders 'unfazed by lawsuits'
The threat of legal action has done little to deter European internet users from downloading pirated music and films, according to a research company.
Albums and films account for 70-80% of all internet traffic in Europe, traffic filtering firm Sandvine has reported.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 21, 2004 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
Griechenland: Drei Monate Haft wegen zwei Raubkopien
Griechenland greift nun im Kampf gegen Musik-Piraterie zu drastischen Maßnahmen: Wie die BBC berichtet, wurde jetzt erstmals ein Käufer illegaler CDs zu einer Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt.
Ein Gericht in Athen verhängte über den Mann drei Monate Haft, nachdem dieser in der Vorwoche einem Händler zwei raubkopierte CDs abgekauft hatte.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 18, 2004 at 2:33:00 PM CEST
Fünf Musikdownloads reichten zur Verurteilung
Wie SSN berichtete, hat die Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wieder einen Fall gegen einen User, diesmal William Martinez, gewonnen. Das Gericht in Connecticut verurteilte ihn in Abwesenheit zu ca. 4.045 US-Dollar Strafe.
Diese Strafe setzt sich aus 750 US-Dollar pro illegalem Download und 289 US-Dollar Gerichtskosten zusammen. Ihm konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass er fünf Musikstücke in einem freigegebenen Ordner seiner P2P-Software hatte.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 18, 2004 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Österreich: Raubkopien-Server beschlagnahmt
Bei einem Provider aus Österreich (mos.at), wurden nun fünf Server und zwei Workstations mit Raubkopien beschlagnahmt. Dies meldete die Wiener Wirtschaftspolizei. Die Aktion sei bereits letzte Woche gelaufen.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 15, 2004 at 9:48:00 PM CEST
Niederländische MP3-Suchmaschine freigesprochen
Die Betreiber der niederländischen MP3-Suchmaschine ZoekMP3.nl haben diese Woche eine Schließung ihres Angebots abwenden können. Ein Gericht der niederländischen Stadt Haarlem befand, dass sie mit dem Verlinken von MP3s in den Niederlanden nicht gegen das Urheberrecht verstoßen.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 15, 2004 at 9:47:00 PM CEST
Court clears Dutch music search engine of copyright violation
A court in the Dutch city of Haarlem has cleared Techno Design, the operator of music search-engine portal, Zoekmp3.nl, of copyright violation. The charge had been brought by BREIN, the Dutch entertainment industry’s anti-piracy association.
Zoekmp3.nl, which appears in the top twenty of the most popular Dutch websites, has access to some 30,000 music links. In its hey-day, Zoekmp3.nl had some 50,000 daily visitors and offered MP3 music files worldwide through an estimated 200,000 web pages.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 15, 2004 at 5:33:00 PM CEST
Reichtum durch Copyleft
3. Oekonux-Konferenz
20.-23. Mai 2004
Institut für Philosophie an der Uni Wien
¬> Oekonux-Konferenz
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 8, 2004 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
$50 MILLION IN ROYALTIES RETURNS TO ARTISTS
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced a deal with the nation’s top recording companies that returns nearly $50 million in unclaimed royalties to thousands of performers.
The agreement comes after a two-year investigation by Spitzer’s office found that many artists and writers were not being paid royalties because record companies had failed to maintain contact with the performers and had stopped making required payments. This problem affected both star entertainers with numerous hit recordings and obscure musicians who may have had only one recording.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 7, 2004 at 1:35:00 AM CEST
When One Man's Video Art Is Another's Copyright Crime
Jon Routson's exhibition of videos at the Team Gallery in Chelsea is a kind of last hurrah, a farewell performance. It is also a small eddy in the increasingly roiled waters where art meets the United States' rapidly expanding copyright laws.
A 34-year-old video artist living in Baltimore, Mr. Routson has a very particular method of art-making, which will soon be illegal in Maryland, as it already is in the District of Columbia and five other states, including New York and California. Like the appropriation artists of the early 1980's, who rephotographed existing photographs as a way of commenting on society, Mr. Routson makes movies of other people's movies.
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