Potent software escalates music industry's jitters
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Napster, created by Shawn Fanning, is a software and Web service that allows users to share MP3 files of music recordings. Once a user downloads the software, they type in the name of a song, and Napster searches the hard drives of other users across the Web. Users click on the resulting list of songs to download them to their own hard drive. Consumers are doing this at a rate of about a million songs a day. The music industry, in its case against Napster, says this service is helping consumers exceed 'fair use' or making a copy of an album they own for a friend or two.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Music industry wins ruling in U.S. court; judge says MP3.com violated copyright law
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Judge Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. Federal District Court for Manhattan, ruled in favor of the sound recording industry in its copyright infringement lawsuit against MP3.com Inc., San Diego, Calfornia. The lawsuit was brought against the online music storage service by the Recording Industry Association of America along with trade group members BMG Entertainment, EMI Recorded Music, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music. The ruling said that MP3.com, by compiling a database of close to 80,000 CD recordings accessed online, was in violation of copyright law. The company argued its service was an extention of consumers' rights to copy their own music, even though the company copied the CDs for consumers' use. The record industry claimed that the copying was against the law.
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Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Napster and record industry clash over sales and copyrights
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Internet music company Napster has asked a federal judge not to shut its service down, claiming that Napster users are not violating ciopyright law by compiling personal collections of copyrighted sound recordings that they can download via Napster. Record companies, represented by Recording Industry Association of America, claims that the downloading by Napster users is costing the industry millions in lost sales.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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