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- 20020410_joint_co_comments_pr.html
- EFF Media Release: EFF and
Broadcasters Comment - Copyright Office Threatens Internet Radio
Privacy. San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and KPFA & KFCF
radio stations urged the U.S. Copyright Office on Friday to modify
proposed webcasting regulations to preserve listener privacy. In an
unprecedented invasion of listener privacy, the Copyright Office has
proposed that webcasters be required to gather and report to copyright
owners information about individual listeners. There is an April 26
deadline for filing comments. (Apr. 10, 2002)
- 20020405_joint_co_comments.html
- Joint comments of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Electronic Information Privacy Center
(EPIC), and the KPFA & KFCF radio stations, to the US Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) on the privacy threats inherent in,
and anti-competitive nature of, proposed regulation 67 Fed. Reg. 5761,
dealing with statutory licensing of Internet radio (Apr. 5, 2002)
- 20020405_joint_co_comments.pdf
- Joint comments of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Electronic Information Privacy Center
(EPIC), and the KPFA & KFCF radio stations, to the US Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) on the privacy threats inherent in,
and anti-competitive nature of, proposed regulation 67 Fed. Reg. 5761,
dealing with statutory licensing of Internet radio (Apr. 5, 2002)
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- 20001019_eff_hr5275_alert.html
- EFF Alert: EFF Urges Netizens to Support
Digital Music Rights Bill ("MOLRA", H.R. 5275) - 1st Step to Copyright
Reform (Oct. 19, 2000)
- eff_audio_statement.html
- EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free
Expression (CAFE) policy statement on digital audio and free
expresssion.
- art_and_music_sampling.paper
- Transcript of a Dec 1993 KPFA Radio show that
explores sampling.
- challenge.html
- "Chuck D Challenges RIAA and SF Attorneys over MP3"
by Robin D. Gross.
- digital_media_and_law.paper
- Oct 1991 paper from Communications of
the ACM, by Pam Samuelson.
- free_music.article
- Proposes Free Music, like Free Software, that
gives everyone the freedom to copy it, by Ram Samudrala.
- hr5275_molra_2000_bill.html
- "Music Owners' Listening Rights Act of 2000"
(MOLRA, bill number H.R. 5275). The Bill begins to reform unbalanced
copyright law by firmly establishing users' rights to access the music
they lawfully own via the Internet at any time from any place.
- mp3board_v_riaa.pdf
- MP3 Board sues RIAA for a declaratory judgement
stating that linking is legal. "Distilled to it's essence, this
action seeks to declare that hypertext linking, created by automated
processes, from one site on the World Wide Web to another does not
constitute copyright infringement even if the destination of a
hypertext link is to a website containing materials that infringe upon
intellectual property rights." (Appologies that this is a .pdf file)
- multimedia_ip_primer.paper
- A primer for non-lawyers on the
legal issues in developing online and multimedia products, includes a
description of the legal issues in creating a hypothetical multimedia
work. By J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe. Revised, 1996.
- 20000607_thethe_statement.html
- Statement of Matt Johnson, from rock
band The The, who has weighed in the digital music issue. The The will
be releasing material stuff on the Web for free download, against
music industry wishes.
Subdirectories in This Archive
- SDMI/
- Directory of info on the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)
trade association, and their draft standard for a "Digital Music Access
Technology" (DMAT) copy protection with does anything but provide or
enhance access to digital music. Instead it would esentially end all
fair use right in the mainstream music world.
Related On-Site Resources
- EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE)
- General information on EFF's digital audio and free expression project.
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RIAA v. Diamond Archive
- directory of info on the legal case Recording Industry
Assoc. of America and Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies v.
Diamond Multimedia Systems, in which RIAA and AARC seek to
prevent Diamond from distributed it's "Rio" product (a Walkman-like
music appliance that plays MP3 audio files downloaded off the Internet
or copied from CDs - or authored by the Rio owner). RIAA seems
unconcerned with the Fair Use and First Amendment consequences of
applying the restrictive terms of the Audio Home Recording Act to the
Rio.
Links to Related Off-Site Resources