Should the DMCA Be Used to Fend Off Competition?
by ART JAHNKE
CIO, publication date: 30 October 2003

New Ways to Skirt DMCA ... Legally!
by KATIE DEAN
Wired News, publication date: 29 October 2003

Legend of Tauzin II, The Rumors Return
by BILL WALSH and BRUCE ALPERT
The Times-Picayune, publication date: 29 October 2003

Sorry, Screeners
by JACK VALENTI
Opinion Journal [from Wall Street Journal], publication date: 29 October 2003

MPAA 'compromise' throws monkey wrench into guild awards
by MARTIN A. GROVE
Hollywood Reporter, publication date: 29 October 2003

DMCA censorware exemption win!
by SETH FINKELSTEIN
Infothought, publication date: 28 October 2003

U.S. Copyright Office, Anticircumvention Rulemaking
copyright.gov, publication date: 28 October 2003

lamp: Library Access to Music Project
MIT

Students Develop File-Swap Alternative
by JUSTIN POPE
Washington Post, publication date: 27 October 2003

Copyright Catch-Up in E. Europe
by ROXANNE KHAMSI
Wired News, publication date: 24 October 2003

Cyberpiracy north of the border
by DECLAN MCCULLAGH
CNet News.com, publication date: 27 October 2003

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, publication date: 22 October 2003

EMI to offer entire digital music catalog online
Associated Press
Salon, publication date: 24 October 2003

The Great Library of Amazonia
by GARY WOLF
Wired, publication date: 23 October 2003 [from the December issue of Wired magazine]

Songwriters' [sic] win $1.2M copyright case
The City Paper Online [Nashville city paper], publication date: 23 October 2003

Rep. DeGette Doesn't Get It
by ERNEST MILLER
The Importance of [Miller's blog], publication date: 21 October 2003

Copyright protections extended
National Business Review [New Zealand], publication date: 22 October 2003

Congressional Caucus to Examine Entertainment Piracy
by DAVID MCGUIRE
Washington Post, publication date: 21 October 2003

FTAA treaty chapter on IP 'threatens freedom and free trade'
IP Justice press release, publication date: 20 October 2003

Kinder, Gentler RIAA
by CYNTHIA L. WEBB
Washington Post, publication date: 20 October 2003

Cites & Insights: November 2003 - v. 3 no. 13 PDF document
by WALT CRAWFORD
see Copyright Currents, pp 12-20

CD fair warning
by JON IVERSON
Stereophile, publication date: 06 October 2003

InfoWorld: Subcommittee approves database protection bill
by GRANT GROSS
InfoWorld, publication date: 16 October 2003

If Broadcast Flag Passes, You Lose
by DAN GILLMOR
SiliconValley.com, publication date: 16 October 2003

Faculty forum to discuss copyright and intellectual property issues Oct. 28
by BECCA HUTCHINSON
UDaily [University of Delaware], publication date: 17 October 2003

Record Industry Warns 204 Before Suing on Swapping warning: registration required
by JOHN SCHWARTZ
New York Times, publication date: 18 October 2003

The Copyright Cuffs
by JONATHAN ZITTRAIN
CIO Magazine, publication date: 15 October 2003

UK to adopt EU copyright law
by ADAM PASICK
Reuters UK, publication date: 16 October 2003

Fan to RIAA: It Ain't Me, Babe
by KATIE DEAN
Wired News, publication date: 15 October 2003

RIAA to Charter: Give up file-swapper names
by STEFANIE OLSEN
CNet News.com, publication date: 14 October 2003

Oops, they did it again
by DONNA WENTWORTH
Copyfight, publication date: 14 October 2003

Fighting to Preserve Old Programs
by DANIEL TERDIMAN
Wired News, publication date: 14 October 2003

Don't torch musician's incomes, burn media piracy
by BRIAN ROBERTSON
The Globe and Mail [Canada], publication date: 14 October 2003

Murdoch chief threatens to sue BBC
by KATE BULKLEY
Guardian [UK], publication date: 13 October 2003

Missing the point on antipiracy technology
by HIAWATHA BRAY
Boston Globe, publication date: 13 October 2003

Will compulsory licensing for downloadable music become part of the fee structure at colleges and universities? Will the academy implement Digital Rights Management systems to police file transfers? These are some of the policy and technical solutions pondered by a new EDUCAUSE committee, (the Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities) whose members (including Jack Valenti of the MPAA and Cary Sherman of the RIAA) will be featured at the General Session of the upcoming annual EDUCAUSE conference (November 6, 2003) in Anaheim, CA. Panel moderated by NPR's Mara Liasson.

The Committee does not suggest that colleges and universities should be required to implement any of the technologies it will discuss. So far, however, their press releases and the Requests for Information (RFI) make only passing mention of the possible positive benefits of P2P and very little mention of any obligation to safeguard student privacy. For some balance, see the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Making P2P legal, the Electronic Privacy Information Center's collection of documents on the RIAA vs. Verizon case, and Siva Vaidhyanathan's four-part series P2P: The New Information War? on Open Democracy.

An excerpt from the Committee's RFI on Technology Opportunities:

5.6.1 Content identification

If the technology is intended to selectively identify communications that represent potential infringements of copyright law, explain in detail how the technology will identify such content. The vendor should specify what categories of content can be identified, for example, compressed audio files, video, images, etc. The vendor should indicate any external content databases that are required.

EDUCAUSE is a higher education information technology association; as of October 11, there are 4,680 annual conference registrants who allowed their names to be displayed on the EDUCAUSE conference site.

See also: RIAA and MPAA - using schools as sales points, Jon Newton's 8/2003 article about this same EDUCAUSE committee on MP3 Newswire, and his later piece, Higher Education & Entertainment p2p report on DMusic.com

What Price Music? warning: registration required
by AMY HARMON
The New York Times, publication date: 12 October 2003

Top Hollywood directors slam Oscar DVD ban
by STEVE GORMAN
Reuters, publication date: 11 October 2003

EMusic sold; unlimited MP3 downloads nixed
by JOHN BORLAND
CNet News.com, publication date: 10 October 2003

Whose life is it anyway?
by MARK LAWSON
The Guardian [UK], publication date: 11 October 2003

Altering art is OK if it isn't misrepresented
by RANDY COHEN
Salt Lake Tribune, publication date: 11 October 2003
a rare moral rights news item

Shift-Key Case Rouses DMCA Foes
by KATIE DEAN
Wired News, publication date: 11 October 2003

New Napster, IPod Don't Play Nice
by KATIE DEAN
Wired News, publication date: 09 October 2003

[Politech] RIAA replies to Politech over "Net drivers licenses"
by DECLAN MCCULLAGH
Politech, publication date: 10 October 2003

SunnComm won't sue grad student
by DECLAN MCCULLAGH
CNet News.com, publication date: 10 October 2003

UK file-swappers could face jail under new law
by MATTHEW BROERSMA
ZDNet UK, publication date: 08 October 2003

Napster is back
by DEREK CANEY
Reuters UK, publication date: 09 October 2003

Web-based music pirate gets jail time
by MATT HINES
CNet News.com, publication date: 09 October 2003

Student faces suit over key to CD locks
by JOHN BORLAND
CNet News.com, publication date: 09 October 2003

Copyright and authors
by JOHN EWING
First Monday, publication date: 06 October 2003

A Void Named Sued
by DOUGLAS WOLK
Village Voice, publication date: 06 October 2003

Jury orders Legg Mason to pay $19.7 million in copyright case
by PAUL ADAMS
SunSpot.net, publication date: 07 October 2003

HR 2517 - the FBI p2p prosecution bill
p2pnet, publication date: 07 October 2003

Madonna Sued For Copyright Infringement
Yahoo LAUNCH, publication date: 01 October 2003

Music Industry Won't Drop Fines
by ROBERT GUTSCHE JR
Newsday.com, publication date: 01 October 2003

Sixty-Four Alleged File-Sharers Back Down In Face Of RIAA Lawsuits
by JOE D'ANGELO
MTV.com, publication date: 20 September 2003

P2P Entrapment: Incriminating peer to peer network users
by have2Banonymous
publication date: 27 September 2003

Innocent file-sharers could appear guilty
by WILL KNIGHT
New Scientist, publication date: 01 October 2003

Movie Studios Crack Down on Oscar Screening Tapes
by BOB TOURTELLOTTE
Yahoo News (Reuters), publication date: 30 September 2003

Dueling rappers debate downloading music
by FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press
USA Today, publication date: 30 September 2003