Monday, June 16, 2003
[NEWS - Student sued by RIAA]
Jesse Jordan, a 19-year-old student in US, has been sued by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for creating software that allows users to search for files across his college campus. While the RIAA claim that his service is like the highly-publicised file sharing tool Napster, Jesse likens the service he provides to the search engine Google. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the case, the idea of suing a college student has caused outrage, and Jesse has made back most of the money ($10,000 of the $12,000 he paid) through donations to his site.
ChewPlastic.com (Jesse's site)
story on ABC News
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8:54 PM
[ANALYSIS - Copyright and the public domain]
Matthew Rimmer writes in First Monday about the repeated extension of the extension of copyright in US. In particular, he considers the effects on freedom of speech and economic development.
full paper on First Monday
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8:38 PM
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