COPYCENSE

“As we have argued over and over again, digital rights management only serves to restrict and remove rights from innocent users.

“With that in mind, there may still be places where limiting a persons rights is acceptable. Generally these are only acceptable in business to business areas where the information is confidential.

DRM Blog. Good Uses for DRM. Sept. 2, 2005.

“There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be

getting much less than the services promise.

“Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) — also known as ‘copy protection’ — that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of your choice or creating remixes.”

Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music. No date.

“The Electronic Frontier Foundation said Apple acted too quickly in subpoenaing journalists and bloggers accused of stealing trade secrets.

“Court Documents (.pdf) in the case were unsealed last week. EFF said they reveal Apple tried to subpoena two reporters’ anonymous sources without first conducting a thorough internal investigation.”

David Needle. EFF to Apple: Too Much Too Soon. InternetNews.com. Sept. 14, 2005.

See also:

Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF Wins Unsealing of Secret Documents in Apple Case. Sept. 13, 2005.

Superior Court in the State of California, County of Santa Clara. Jason O’Grady, Monish Bhatia, and Kasper Jade v. Superior Court in the State of California, County of Santa Clara and Apple Computer Inc.. (.pdf) Sept. 9, 2005.

"Legal music-download services won’t be able to compete fully with
their free- and illegal-download counterparts until copyright law
changes, a Virginia congressman said Tuesday.

"’The illegal services offer all of the songs, and the legal
services don’t, and therein lies the crux of the problem,’ Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, said in a speech at the Future of Music Policy Summit here."

Anne Broache. Politicos Call for Music Copyright Reform. News.com. Sept. 13, 2005.

"Napster president Brad Duea has criticised mobile operators that use the trend towards mobile music to exploit their customers.

"Speaking
at Mobile Content World, Duea said consumers should only be charged
once for their music, whatever hardware they want to transfer it to. ‘Some operators want to force consumers to buy all their content
again,’ he said. ‘That creates an island rather than an integrated
experience.’"

Jo Best. Napster President Slams the Ringtone Rip-Off. Silicon.com. Sept. 13, 2005.

"A British company is considering filing a lawsuit against Google over its use of the Gmail name.

"After 15 months of negotiations with Google, Independent International Investment Research has been unable to reach a settlement with Google on use of the trademark and may sue the search giant, Shane Smith, chief executive of Independent II Research, said Tuesday."

Elinor Mills. New Lawsuit Looming Over Google’s Use of ‘Gmail’?. News.com. Sept. 12, 2005.

See also:
Stefanie Olsen. Gmail by Any Other Name? News.com. Aug. 13, 2004.

“The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) announced Friday plans to collaborate with Internet2, a networking consortium, for development of future business models for digital content distribution.

“‘Together with the RIAA and MPAA, the Internet2 community is leading the way in helping to shape new business models for the future of the music and movie industries as consumers and businesses alike continue to rapidly adopt Internet technologies to receive these products and services,’ Douglas Van Houweling, president and CEO of Internet2, said in a statement.”

Bary Alyssa Johnson. MPAA, RIAA Plan to Collaborate with Internet2. PCMag.com. Sept. 12, 2005.