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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) [PDF version]
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.

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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.

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EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE)
General information on EFF's digital audio and free expression project.
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.

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