FC: Legal update: Rulings in Intel v. Hamidi bulk-email and KaZaA cases

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Politech archive on Intel v. Hamidi:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=hamidi

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From: Donna Wentworth <donna () cyber law harvard edu>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
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
filter-editor () cyber law harvard edu
donna () cyber law harvard edu

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From: "Anuj Desai" <acdesai () facstaff wisc edu>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
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)
acdesai () facstaff wisc edu

[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.
[...]





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