Skip to main content

Jonathan Bailey's Library tagged colleges →  View Popular

09 Dec 08

Wired Campus: Recording Industry Proposes Taxing Students Instead of Suing Them - Chronicle.com

  • Warner Music Group is in talks with several universities about this experiment in “voluntary blanket licensing,” said a post last week on the blog Techdirt. Colleges would collect the money, and the recording industry, through a nonprofit organization, would distribute it to artists, according to a slideshow presentation embedded in the Techdirt post.
  • The blanket license, the presentation says, is similar to current models for radio and television. But all universities and Internet service providers would have to sign on, it says, for the plan to work. Techdirt didn’t like the sound of that.
22 Nov 08

P2P policy to require RIAA proof - News

  • Duke will now require agencies like the Recording Industry Association of America to provide evidence of copyright infringement before forwarding pre-litigation notices to students, the Office of Student Affairs said Tuesday.
  • "What we're saying is that in order for us to pass on a settlement letter to a student, we're going to start requiring evidence that someone actually downloaded from that student," Moneta said. "If the RIAA can't prove that actual illegal behavior occurred, then we're not going to comply."
  • 1 more annotations...

RIAA Wins, Campuses Lose as Tennessee Governor Signs Campus Network Filtering Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • [R]easonably attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources, if such institution receives fifty (50) or more legally valid notices of infringement as prescribed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 within the preceding year.
21 Mar 08

MPAA to Congress: Filtering is in colleges’ best interests

The College Opportunity and Affordability Act sailed through the House last month. The bill contains a reauthorization of key federal funding for student aid, and the MPAA managed to pack the House version with a pair of provisions that the colleges and universities in question want nothing to do with.

arstechnica.com/...n-colleges-best-interests.html - Preview

51 colleges isps mpaa

1 - 17 of 17
Showing 20▼ items per page

Selected Tags

Related Tags

Sponsored Links

Ads by Google

Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »

Join Diigo