November 29, 2001
NY Times: Free Music Service Is Expected to Surpass Napster.
Several Internet music ventures backed by the record industry are poised to start next week, with others to follow in the next two months. But the long-awaited subscription services will enter an online world where the free music swapping they are meant to counteract is at record levels.
Financial Times: Intellectual property: The internet's undoing.
Lawrence Lessig. This change alters a crucial premise of the original internet: that no one should exercise control over the platform to set "policy" about how the network would develop. By permitting such a fundamental shift, governments are allowing the enclosure of the innovation commons. That will destroy innovation.
NY Times: 2 Copyright Cases Decided in Favor of Entertainment Industry.
The entertainment industry won two closely watched cases yesterday that pit owners of copyrighted works against the people who develop technologies that can be used to copy those works. Both cases involve challenges to a 1998 federal copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
MSNBC: Web sites ramp up ad annoyances.
A series of tactics that impose Web advertising on users — and often impede them from getting to the information they want — is changing from an exception to more common practice as advertisers try to capture consumer attention for longer periods.
SJ Mercury: Scientists endorse tax credits for developing high-speed Internet networks.
The report, by the National Research Council, says the value of ``broadband'' Internet access for educational and economic uses is worth federal help, even when telecommunications companies have difficulty justifying the expense.
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