Week 8.1: Property in Cyberspace: Copyright and the Digital Distribution of Music

Required Reading:

	A& M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc, 239F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001) http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/9th/case/0016401&exact=1
	Copyright misuse: SAIL 249-257.

Optional Reading

	Transcript of preliminary injunction hearing in Napster of July 26, http://riaa.org/PDF/NapsterPatel.pdf
	District Court denies a request by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and music publishers for summary judgment in the copyright-infringement case against file-swapping service Napster. Judge Orders Napster Case to Press On: http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1353044
	Napster judge denounces recording industry: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24178.html
	The RIAA's case: Recording Industry Association of America and Napster: http://www.riaa.com/Napster.cfm

Comment and perspectives

	Berkman Center Conference Schedule And Video Archive: Signal Or Noise? The Future Of Music On The Net: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ events/netmusic_agenda.html
	John Borland, RIAA Sues Aimster Over File Swapping, CNET News.com, May 25, 2001, http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6033575.html
	Campaign for Digital Rights, Corrupt audio CDs, aka "Copy-Protected CDs" http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/
	Michael Einhorn, Cyber Rights, Protection, and Markets: Article RIAA v Napster: Sympathy for swhich "Devel"? 32 U West LA L. Rev 171 (2001)
	Jane Ginsburg, Copyright and Control over New Technologies of Dissemination, 101 Co.lumj. L. Rev. 1613 (2001)
	Brad King, Napster: Music's Friend or Foe? http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36961,00.html
	Senate Judiciary Committee, Forum: Hearing regarding the future of intellectual property in the digital age: Statement of Gene Kan Gnutella developer, Founder InfraSearch, Inc. http://www.senate.gov/%7Ejudiciary/7112000_gk.htm
	Shane Ham and Robert D. Atkinson, Napster and Online Piracy: The Need to Revisit the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Policy Report (May 2000), http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=107&subsecID=126& contentID=646

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· Leander Kahney, Alternative Net Protects Pirates: "Freenet has no centralized administrative infrastructure of domain name servers…": http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34768,00.html
· Raymond S.R. Ku, The Creative Destruction of Copyright: Napster and the New Economics of Digital Technology, -- Chi. L. Rev. - (forthcoming 2001), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=266964
· Mark Latonero, Survey of MP3 Usage: Report on a University Consumption Community:
http://www.entertainment.usc.edu/publications/mp3.pdf
· Courtney Love, Courtney Love Does the Math, June 14, 2000, Salon Magazine, http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html
· Charles C. Mann, The Heavenly Jukebox, The Atlantic Monthly (September 2000): http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/mann.htm
· Declan McCullagh, Digital Security Fomenting a Feud: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html
· A musician's perspective on Napster et al: Cuckoo's Egg Project: http://www.hand-2-mouth.com/cuckooegg/
· RIAA Almost Down to Pre-Napster Revenues: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=141February 27: slashdot.org
· JA Sifferd, The Peer to Peer Revolution: A Post-Napster Analysis of the Rapidly Developing File-Sharing Technology, 4 Vand. J Ent. L. & Prac. 92 (2002)
· A Yen, A Preliminary Economic Analysis of Napster: Internet Technology, Copyright Liability, and the Possibility of Coasean Bargaining, 29 Dayton L Rev 247 (2001)

Discussion

1. Case brief Napster.
2. Copyright and peer-to-peer networks: Offer an assessment of the feasibility of copyright control of the digital distribution of music.
3. To what extent can the defense of copyright misuse do the work of fair use: SAIL 249-257.
4. To what extent should the law protect the music recording industry as an industry in transition in the Information Age? Whose interests should the law consider deserving of protection?