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Harvard Law Prof., Students Aid File-Swapper in Countersuit

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 29, 2008 - 9:52am.

Boston - A man sued for copyright infringement for allegedly sharing seven songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network is now mounting a countersuit, with the help of a Harvard Law School professor and his cyberlaw students, who are arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is abusing the legal process.

Oxford, Harvard Researchers Launch Anti-Spyware Group

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 27, 2006 - 8:04am.

Oxford, England - Researchers at the universities of Oxford and Harvard have teamed up to launch a new project that names and shames suppliers of spyware and other malicious software programs. Organizers said the project would try to enlist the help of Internet users to identify companies that dupe surfers into putting spyware, adware or other deceptive software on their PCs. They also said the project would eventually produce tools that help clean up infested computers. Dubbed the Stop Badware Coalition, the project enjoys the support of such heavy hitters as Google, Sun Microsystems and Lenovo.

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Scholars, Executives Discuss Future of Digital Media At Harvard Conference

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 19, 2003 - 11:33am.

Cambridge, Mass. -- Nearly 100 digital media legal scholars, executives and other experts gathered Thursday at Harvard Law School to discuss possible future business models in the rapidly changing arena of Internet-distributed entertainment. The conference was organized by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and analyst firm Gartner G2. Topics discussed included digital rights management schemes, the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) recent filing of copyright infringement lawsuits against individual music file-swappers, and how a compulsory licensing program for the record industry -- which would essentially legalize file-sharing while taxing it somehow to pay creators -- could be implemented. "Today's digital rights management can easily become tomorrow's political rights management," said Electronic Freedom Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow. "The same system that we are increasingly putting in place allowing the record industry to survey your hard disk would allow the government to survey your hard disk with a different purpose."

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