Re: Copyright and MP3 issues

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Dirceu Pereira <dpsrosa[_at_]ax.ibase.org.br> wrote:
>
> I read this list very often but, since I am in faraway Brazil, I tend
> to participate much less than other readers.
>
> Does anyone know a good source of information about copyright issues
> arising from the illegal copying of music through the mp3 format??
> or about the use of digital watermarks against possible copying of
> coptrighted materials?
>
> I have heard not only of one case about mp3, such as RIAA V. Diamond,
> but also about record companies which sent many cease and desist letters
> to website owners which carries illegal mp3 files. Many sites are
> supposedly being shut down.
>
> I am having difficulties in finding other sources of legal info through
> the web, specially legal articles which deal with this matter directly,
> or give weight to this issue.
>
> All help, or links, will be highly appreciated

Dirceu:

    I have an LL.M. student, who happens to be from Brazil, who has just completed a paper for me on MP3 and copyright -- I have forwarded your request to him and I'm sure you'll be hearing from him shortly (and probably in Portuguese, just to make your life simpler! :-) David Post

David Post
<postd[_at_]erols.com> Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 01:32:31 GMT