Politech archive on Intel v. Hamidi: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=hamidi
--- From: Donna Wentworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Intel v. Hamidi to be heard by Calif. Supreme Court Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:02:04 -0500 Hi Declan, I thought you and the politech list might be interested to know that the California Supreme Court has decided to hear Intel v. Hamidi; details are available at the Court's website, here http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/mainCaseScreen.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=188342 Intel v. Hamidi, like Eldred v. Ashcroft, has been fought in part with the help of the Berkman Center's Openlaw forum. Background on the case is available here: <http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/intelvhamidi/> Carl Kaplan's 1999 NYT Cyberlaw Journal piece exploring the central issues at stake is here: <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/cyberlaw/28law.html>. Best, Donna .......... Donna Wentworth Editor The Filter <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter> Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School Phone: (617) 495-0662 Fax: (617) 495-7641 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- From: "Anuj Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Declan McCullagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW: Dutch Court Clears Web Music Swapping Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:04:15 -0600 Declan, You've probably already seen, but if not, this might be of interest -Anuj Anuj C. Desai University of Wisconsin Law School 975 Bascom Mall Madison, WI 53706 (608) 263-7605 (phone) (608) 262-5485 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wired News ran the Reuters article here: http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51380,00.html --Declan] [...] >March 28, 2002 > >Dutch Court Clears Web Music Swapping > >By REUTERS > >Filed at 9:07 a.m. ET > >LONDON (Reuters) - In a setback for efforts to halt copyright abuse, a >Dutch appeals court on Thursday told a technology firm it could distribute >a software program that is designed to let users share music and films on >the Internet. > >The ruling in the case between Internet software company KaZaA and Dutch >music rights organization Buma Stemra overturned a decision in November in >favor of the music industry. > >The music industry says rampant online piracy has severely damaged >recording sales and the movie industry fears the same could happen to it >as computers become more powerful. > >The Amsterdam Court of Justice ruled that KaZaA was not liable for any >individuals' abuse of its software, which is being used by millions of >people around the world every day to swap copyright-protected games, >music, pictures and films. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
