EDUPAGE> Edupage, April 07, 2004
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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 07, 2004
Scholar Challenges Copyright Law
Film Prices Cut to Fight Piracy in Russia
DHS Begins Local IT Initiative
SCHOLAR CHALLENGES COPYRIGHT LAW
Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig has filed a federal
lawsuit intended to allow online archives to include copyrighted works
that are not available otherwise. The Internet Archive and the
Prelinger Archives are being developed as online resources for
academics and others. One project of the Internet Archive, the "One
Million Book Project," a joint project with Carnegie Mellon University,
the National Science Foundation, and the governments of India and
China, aims to put one million books online by 2005. Many of the books
developers want to include, however, are copyrighted to deceased
authors or present other problems for obtaining proper permissions. The
lawsuit was filed in an attempt to have various federal copyright laws
declared unconstitutional under certain circumstances, particularly as
they apply to such "orphaned" works--creative materials that are often
out of print or otherwise unavailable through commercial avenues but
that are still protected by copyright.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 April 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i31/31a03401.htm
FILM PRICES CUT TO FIGHT PIRACY IN RUSSIA
High rates of DVD and CD piracy in Russia have prompted entertainment
companies to try to fight rampant copyright violations by lowering
prices on legitimate copies of movies and music. Reports indicate that
9 of every 10 DVDs sold in Russia are counterfeit, while 60 percent of
CDs sold there are pirated copies, and some antipiracy groups say the
problem is getting worse. Movies that have not been released on DVD yet
are routinely available in Russian black markets for the equivalent of
about $4 (U.S.), and copies of recently released music CDs can usually
be bought for less than that. Given the level of piracy, U.S. film
companies, including Columbia TriStar and Time Warner, have lowered the
prices for DVDs in an effort to get Russians accustomed to buying legal
copies of movies, "but at a price that most of the population can
afford," according to Vyacheslav Dobychin, general director of Columbia
TriStar's Russian licensee. Movie producers have been strongly opposed
to lowering prices in the United States as a means to discourage
piracy. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of
America, said, "You can never compete on price with a pirate."
New York Times, 7 April 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/movies/07PIRA.html
DHS BEGINS LOCAL IT INITIATIVE
In the coming weeks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will
begin implementing a new program to facilitate local and regional
implementation of information technologies. The Safe Cities initiative
will be a bottom-up rather than top-down program to develop technology
infrastructure, according to Nancy Suski, director of emergency
preparedness and response within DHS's Science and Technology
Directorate. Suski said the program is not a test-bed for new
technologies but an operational test for tools that have already been
proven to work, though the program is technology-neutral. Authorities
at DHS will work with public and private groups in selected communities
to develop horizontal as well as vertical integration with state and
federal officials. Two primary points of focus for the project, said
Suski, will be interoperability and sustainability.
Federal Computer Week, 7 April 2004
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2004/0405/web-safecities-04-07-04.asp
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