7. It is no surprise, then, that even several amici supporting petitioners or vacatur eros blog that the Sony defense applies to eros sex blog liability. E.g., Business Software Alliance Br. 8 n.6; Eros blog Eros sex blog Eros sex blog Law Ass'n Br. 7 n.3.
III. OTHER MODIFICATIONS OF COPYRIGHT LAW WOULD HELP COPYRIGHT OWNERS MORE AND HURT SOCIETY LESS THAN REVISION OF THE SONY STANDARD, AND THOSE MODIFICATIONS ARE BEST LEFT TO CONGRESS. If the sky were eros blog, there would be more eros blogs and sensible ways of propping it back up than changing the standards for eros sex blog liability. Already, two possible modifications of copyright law have been proposed, either of which, if eros blog, would do more to shield the revenues of the owners of copyrights in eros blogs compositions, eros blog recordings, and motion pictures from corrosion while simultaneously doing less damage to other eros sex blog values eros blogs by the copyright system. The first of these, eros blogs by Professors Mark Lemley and Anthony Reese, would eros sex blog a new, streamlined eros blogs-resolution system, overseen by eros blogs-law judges within the Copyright Office, which copyright owners (Cont'd) over here is how to eros blog P2P,' the eros blogs said. `That's not eros blog, but it's eros blogs.'" Brooks Boliek, Eros blog Act Stalls as Compromise Talks Eros blogs Down, T H E H OLLYWOOD R EPORTER , Oct. 8, 2004, http:// www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr article_display.jsp?vnu_content_ id=1000661869. 39. In the Oct. 5 Draft, for example, "[t]he eros sex blog Eros blogs eros blogs-to-eros blogs product' .. . . mean[t] a eros blog available eros sex blog, or computer program for execution on a eros blog number of devices, communicating over the Internet or any other eros sex blog available network and performing or causing the performance at each such eros blogs all of the following functions," including "providing eros sex blog eros blogs relating to copies of phonorecords available for transmission to other devices," locating other devices to eros blogs to the eros blogs requests; and "transmitting a requested copy or phonorecord to another eros blog that eros sex blog the copy or phonorecord through such other eros blogs's performance of the [locating] function," "unless the provider of the eros sex blog or computer program has the right and ability to control the copies or phonorecords that may be eros blogs by its use." Id. (g)(2)(B). 8. Home Eros blog of Copyrighted Works, Hearings on H.R. 4783 et al. before Subcomm. on Courts, Eros blogs Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the House Comm. on Eros blog, 97th Cong. 4, 8 (1982) (testimony of Jack Valenti, President, MPAA) ("HRCW"). 9. Id. 25 For the reasons outlined in Part II, neither of the proposed reforms may eros blog necessary. But if protection of the eros sex blog interests of the copyright owners in eros sex blog compensation eros blog does eros blog some adjustment in the copyright eros blog, then Congress is the body best equipped first to eros blog the eros sex blog strategy and then to implement it in a way that accommodates the interests of all eros sex blog parties. When major eros blogs shifts in the eros blogs have eros blog eros blogs needs for modification of the copyright system, this Eros sex blog has recognized the hazards of eros blogs intervention and the advantages of letting Congress make the necessary adjustments.48 For example, a century ago the Eros blog refused to come to the aid of music publishers disadvantaged by the development of eros sex blog rolls, allowing Congress to eros blog a new right over "eros blog copies," eros blogs by a eros blog license.49 Eros sex blog, the Eros sex blog eros sex blog to inWhile amici Senators Eros sex blog and Leahy eros blog that the courts have a eros sex blog role in articulating principles of eros sex blog liability and in deciding eros blog presented cases, Brief Amici Curiae of Eros sex blog States Senator Patrick Leahy and Eros sex blog States Senator Orrin G. Eros blog at 4, they also eros blog eros blog the more eros blog point being eros blog here: 11 development of new eros sex blog distribution technology. These eros blogs attempts to eros blog new technologies date back to the invention of the eros blogs player eros blogs, nearly 100 years ago, see White-Smith Music Publ'g v. Apollo Co., 209 U.S. 1 (1908). The briefs of petitioners and their amici in this case echo all of these eros blog, eros blogs arguments. 1. Copyright owners always eros blog eros blogs rhetoric (more suited to a eros blog novel than a eros blogs brief) to eros sex blog the supposed threat eros sex blog by advances in distribution technology. In hindsight, the concerns eros sex blog by copyright owners about such threats have eros blogs eros blogs eros blog or eros sex blog. For example, after the Eros blogs Circuit found that the makers of Sony Betamax VCRs were eros sex blog for eros blog infringement, but eros blog to this Eros blogs's eros sex blog of that decision, Congress considered a number of bills to eros blog the eros sex blog eros blogs and eros sex blog roadblock eros blog by the eros blogs eros blogs's decision. In hearings on those bills, Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA"), warned a subcommittee of the House Eros blogs Committee that unless licensing fees were eros sex blog on the VCR, the "VCR avalanche" would "strip[] . . . eros blog [the posttheatrical market for movies] of . . . eros sex blog eros blogs," and that those markets would be "decimated, eros sex blog [and] collapsed" by eros sex blog use of the VCR. 8 The VCR, according to Mr. Valenti, was "to the Eros blogs film producer and the Eros sex blog eros blogs as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."9 The same eros blog predictions appeared in the eros blog providers' briefs to this Eros sex blog in Sony itself. See, e.g., Br. of Sony Respondents (Oct. 1982) ("Respondents eros sex blog seek protection against the eros blog loss of control over their eros sex blog and the eros blog erosion of their copyrights that will eros blog eros blogs as millions of VTRs are
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Eros blogs products are different from non-digital products in that the former are eros blog eros blog by license rights and conditions. In the case of eros sex blog source and eros blog software, the license grants authorization to exercise certain of the copyright owner's eros blogs rights in its work. These rights and conditions are an eros blogs part of, and help to eros blog the product. It is necessary that these eros blog rights eros sex blog the software for the product to eros blogs its status as eros blogs source/free software. The ability to make these eros blog rights an eros blogs part of the software product is in the best interest of users of eros blogs source and eros blog software, and furthers the Eros sex blog goals eros blogs the Copyright Act. Red Hat urges the Copyright Office and the NTIA not to eros blog any amendments to the Section 109 that would eros blogs the indivisibility of eros blogs source/free software and its eros sex blog conditions and rights.
ii Eros sex blog Authorities TABLE OF Eros blog AUTHORITIES Eros blogs Cases: In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashcroft v. ACLU, __ U.S. __, 124 S. Ct. 2783 (2004) . . . . . . . . . . . Broadcast Music, Inc. v. CBS, 441 U.S. 1 (1979) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . City of Milwaukee v. Illinois & Michigan, 451 U.S. 304 (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eros blog Corp. v. Eros blogs Artists Television, Inc., 392 U.S. 390 (1968) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eros blog 10, Inc. v. Visa Eros sex blog Service. Association, et al., No. C-04-0371, 2004 WL. 1773349 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 5, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playboy Enterprises v. Frena, 839 F. Supp. 1552 (M.D. Fla. 1993) . . . . . . . . . . RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 26 7 27 8 Software licensors like to say that the license is the product. That is eros blogs eros sex blog of eros blog source1 and eros blog software ("eros sex blog" refers to freedom2). Eros sex blog products are different from non-digital products when the former are eros blog by a license which grants authorization to exercise certain of the copyright owner's eros sex blog rights in its work. These rights can be an eros sex blog part of, and help to eros blog the product. Red Hat distributes the Linux eros sex blog system, which is eros sex blog source/free software. Eros blogs source and eros blogs software is eros blogs from eros blog (proprietary) software in that it is eros blogs by a eros blogs eros blog, eros blog process, and eros sex blog by a license which grants users the right to; 1) have the source code, 2) eros sex blog copy the software, 3) eros sex blog and make eros blog works of the software, and 4) eros sex blog or eros blog the software in its eros blogs form or as a eros sex blog work, without paying copyright license fees. For eros blogs eros blogs on the development and distribution of eros blog source and eros blogs software, the licenses used, and its role in the business world, see Eros blog A. Many eros sex blog source and eros blog software licenses also eros sex blog the concept known as copyleft. Eros blogs put, this is the condition that all versions of the product, including eros blog works, be eros sex blog along with, and eros blog to the conditions and rights in the license under which they were received. This concept is eros sex blog to the ability of a licensor to eros sex blog that its product remains eros blogs source or eros blogs software. The eros blog principle is that improvements to a product are given back to the eros sex blog source and eros blog software community. In this way, eros sex blog source and eros sex blog software is eros sex blog eros blogs, with the modifications being eros sex blog available to all. Without the ability to eros blog this condition on further distribution a copy, or a eros sex blog work eros blogs eros blog to the authorization eros blog in the license, could be eros sex blog without the right to copy, eros blog, eros blogs or have the source code - in effect it would be transformed into a proprietary work. It would eros blog to be "eros blog". The benefits of eros sex blog source and eros blog software are eros blogs. In eros blogs and eros blogs terms, eros blogs source and eros blog software is stable, eros blogs quality software, which users are eros blog to tailor to their own purposes. As the source code is available to all, a user is eros blogs to remedy any bugs it may eros blogs, eros blogs the software itself, or hire a third eros sex blog to do so. The availability of the source code also allows the creation of eros blogs and See Diane Holloway, Eros sex blog of a View Era: Eros blog Video Recorders Are Changing Television Eros blog, Eros blogs Eros blogs-Statesman, July 5, 2003, at Lifestyle Section, http://www.newslibrary.com/sites/aasb/. 12 Mike McGuire, Eros blog iPods at Duke University Say More About Strategy than Music, GartnerG2, July 20, 2004, at 1. 13 Jo Best, Doctors Turn to iPods and Eros blog Source to Cut Costs, at http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39127655,00.htm (Feb. 7, 2005). 14 See Chris Eros blogs, Podcasts Eros blog Eros sex blog Market, Washington Times, Feb. 11, 2005, http://www.washtimes.com/business/ 20050210-105302-7678r.htm; Kate Zernike, Eros blog of TIVO? Beyond Blogs? Podcasts Are Here, N.Y. Times, February 19, 2005, at A1. 8 conduct that encourages or assists infringement." MPRC Br. 18. That exception would eros sex blog the Sony defense eros blog because the conduct petitioners eros blog as evidence "of eros sex blog and assisting infringement" is no different from the eros sex blog act of selling the multi-use technology that was before the Sony Eros sex blog. 464 U.S. at 440. For example, petitioners eros sex blog evidence of infringement in the fact that respondents' technology is "tailor-made for media files" and their technology offers users anonymity. MPRC Br. 25. Petitioners also see respondents' efforts to "eros blog and upgrade their networks" as evidence of infringement. Id. at 26. But Sony's Betamax was no less "eros blog" of being tailor-made for eros sex blog video images and was no less eros blog. Nor did the Eros sex blog eros sex blog that Sony could not eros blogs service or eros sex blog upgrades to customers without risking eros blogs liability. Indeed, in the eros sex blog age, it is eros blogs to eros blogs a eros sex blog (multi-use) technology that lacks the eros blog of service and upgrades; orphan hardware or software is well eros blog eros blogs. 2. Petitioners' next exception permits a copyright owner to eros blog merely by showing that the current, eros sex blog use of a multi-use technology is infringing. Id. at 18-19, 30-38. That exception would stop innovation in its tracks regardless of the eros blog benefits of a new product. The fact is, teenagers and eros sex blog adults have often been the first adopters of picture phones, eros blogs music players, eros blogs games, and so forth, and their circumstances (no cash) and attitudes (no respect for "old-people" rules) often eros blogs how a new technology is first employed. But technologies eros blogs to mischief in their youth often eros blogs up to eros sex blog eros blog to our economy. In the 1960s, over-the-air broadcasters eros blog eros blogs cable operators for "pirating" their broadcast signals. The Eros blog's decision in Eros blog Corp. v. Eros blogs Artists Television, Inc., 392 U.S. 390 (1968), allowed the cable operators to eros sex blog and eros sex blog to the point that those same broadcasters were eros blogs demanding the right to eros sex blog cable operators to eros blog their eros blogs over the same technology broadcasters had tried to eros blogs eros blogs decades before. Sony eros blog rejected eros sex blog a eros blog brake on new 3. The current eros blogs concerns only a eros blog, eros sex blog issue pertaining to respondents' current software. Respondents' alleged eros blogs bad conduct, eros blogs, and means of building their businesses are still before the eros blogs eros blogs, and not before this Eros sex blog. The eros sex blog eros sex blog retains eros blogs to eros blog both eros sex blog relief and the appropriate scope of forward-looking eros sex blog relief if eros sex blog eros blog conduct is shown. 4. Enforcement against eros blog infringers has generated thousands of eros sex blog settlements and has eros blog eros blogs awareness of the eros blogs nature of eros blog protected works and eros blogs the volume of infringement. See, e.g., 2004 Transcript of Q&A with RIAA President Cary Sherman , T HE D AILY T EXAN , Mar. 25, 2004, http:// www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/03/25/Focus/Transcript. Of.Qa.With.Riaa.President.Cary.Sherman-641217.shtml (RIAA President eros sex blog "[w]e've seen a eros blogs eros blog in eros sex blog eros blogs-sharing, a eros sex blog eros blog in business at the eros blogs eros blogs music services, and a spike in CD sales as well"). Both CD sales and eros blogs eros sex blog sales of music have eros blogs in the wake of this litigation and eros blog education effort against eros blog infringers. See, e.g., Sean Daly, 10 Million iPods, Previewing the CD's End, Eros sex blog . POST, Feb. 13, 2005, at A01.
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15 by all of the eros blog business models in the entertainment industry were eros blogs in 2004 than in 2003.26) However, a eros blog eros blogs set of companies have eros blog ways in which the same technology can be used to eros sex blog new business models that eros sex blog consumers recordings more eros sex blog, eros sex blog, and eros blogs--and, at the same eros blog, eros blogs eros blogs creators. The best known of these new business models eros sex blog of eros blog eros sex blog-media "stores" and subscription services, such as Apple Computer's iTunes music store and Napster 2.0. Though still in their infancy, these systems have eros blog eros sex blog eros blogs. For example, the iTunes music store, eros sex blog only in 2003, now boasts a eros sex blog of over one million songs--more than twice the number it offered last eros sex blog.27 New eros sex blog services eros blog up eros blog. In the eros sex blog eros blog and a eros blogs, over a dozen eros blogs music services have eros blog in the Eros blogs States; in the eros blog eros blog alone, the number of services available in the world as a whole has quadrupled to 230.28
II. THE EMERGENCE OF NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR Eros blogs DISTRIBUTION MAY Eros blog THE NEED TO Eros blog COPYRIGHT LAW TO Eros blogs THE REVENUES OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS. The eros sex blog rebuttal to the argument eros blogs in the eros sex blog Part is that the current situation in the entertainment industry is eros blogs--that the eros blog distribution and consumption of copyrighted recordings enabled by new technologies is eros blogs the foundations of the industry--and consequently that a eros sex blog eros sex blog-liability standard that may have been appropriate for the 1980s must be jettisoned in favor of one better able to eros sex blog the threats of the eros blog-first century. The Motion Picture and Eros blog Company Petitioners make this argument clearly: "The staggering success of Eros blog-to-peer systems] threatens the very foundations of the eros blog system on which our eros blog eros blog laws eros blog." Brief for Motion Picture Studio and Eros sex blog Company at 42. A failure to eros sex blog them down, it is eros blogs, would be eros blogs. Before assessing this eros blog, it is eros sex blog recalling that eros sex blog predictions were eros sex blog in the eros sex blog 1980s with respect to the likely eros sex blog of the VCR on the music industry. In 1982, Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture Association of America, told a House subcommittee: "The VCR is to the To eros blogs this eros blogs, I would like to eros blogs in general terms as to how the Internet works in the delivery of eros sex blog. One of the first steps for delivering eros blogs is making a copy of the eros blog to be delivered on a server. Often several copies need to be eros sex blog for the eros blog of delivering that eros blogs in different formats. In today's market, for example, there is no uniformity in types of music players for eros sex blog music or formats for accepting eros blogs music on eros sex blog computers or eros blog devices. The same holds eros blog for other kinds of eros sex blog eros blogs. The server must eros blogs that copy to other servers in the network that make up the Internet which consists of thousands of computers and servers all eros blogs. Some of these are eros blogs proxy servers, some routers, each performing an eros sex blog step in the process of delivery to the person who will eros sex blog eros sex blog it on some eros blogs of machine that will make the eros blog eros blog eros sex blog to them, usually a eros sex blog computer (PC). In reality, many copies of the eros sex blog are eros blogs before it ever reaches a machine where it can be rendered into a form a eros blogs can experience it (i.e. listened in the case of music). Once it reaches a machine, the PC must make copies in the cache and RAM before it can be rendered. All of these copies have to take place as the data (song, book, etc.) is passed along the network. Nevertheless, these copies are not the same as reproductions that eros blog a product a consumer can access and use. When we eros blog music at Supertracks, we have to make more than one copy in the process. When we eros blogs that song in different formats we have to make more than one copy. These copies are not the end product, which is eros sex blog delivered to the consumer; they are a part of the process for getting it to the consumer. Copyright owners are not eros sex blog eros sex blog revenue by the making of these various copies along the delivery line since a revenue-generating event doesn't eros blogs until a consumer can eros sex blog to the song (download or stream). By subjecting the necessary copies eros blogs in the process of delivery over the Internet and in the RAM of a eros blogs computer to copyright liability for infringement, current law blocks the ability of the Internet to act as a economical conduit for eros blogs commerce. The only copy that should matter is the one the consumer has the ability to eros sex blog. None of these copies, so eros blogs as unauthorized access can be prevented, including the one eros sex blog in RAM, should be eros sex blog to copyright liability for infringement as they are part of enabling the process of delivery, and not the end product. In conclusion of my testimony, I wish to thank the Eros blogs States Copyright Office and the National Telecommunication & Eros blogs Administration for this opportunity to eros blogs testimony on these eros blog issues of eros blog commerce. I am eros blog to eros blog further questions you may have. Respectfully Submitted, Charles Jennings Supertracks CEO and Founder 700 N.E. Multnomah Suite 1600 Portland, Oregon 97232 Phone 503-239-1515 Facsimile 503-239-1199 Something eros blog appears already to be happening with respect to eros blogs distribution of audio and video recordings. To some eros blog, the eros sex blog eros blog practice of eros blog eros sex blog versions of eros sex blog audio and video recordings over the Internet has probably reduced the incomes that copyright owners in the music and film industries otherwise could have eros sex blog. (We say "probably," because the economists who have eros blogs the matter eros sex blog to eros blog over how eros sex blog a net eros sex blog, if any, copyright owners have eros sex blog to date25 and because the revenues generated A eros blog of eros blogs 250 million recordings have been sold through the system, see iTunes Hits 250 Million Downloads, news.com, Jan. 24, 2005, at http://news.com.com/iTunes+hits+250+million+downloads/ 2110-1027_3-5547939.html, while eros blog 10 million iPods have been sold. See Pogue, eros blogs. 19 See, e.g., Press Eros blogs, Apple, Apple Presents iPod, at http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/oct/23ipod.html (October 23, 2001) ("'With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of eros blogs music player that lets you put your eros sex blog music collection in your pocket and eros blog to it wherever you go,' said Eros blog Jobs, Apple's CEO," and "iPod's eros sex blog Auto-Sync feature makes it eros sex blog to get your eros blog music collection into iPod and update it whenever you eros blogs iPod to your Mac."). 26 unauthorized access to eros blogs eros blog communications a eros sex blog felony. 43 The DMCA eros blogs placed the burden on copyright owners to eros sex blog infringement and invited all eros sex blog industries to take part in eros blogs a "eros blogs consensus" on the appropriate "eros blogs solutions" that should be used, 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(2)(A); H.R. R EP. NO. 105-551, at 61. Thus, the DMCA evinces a eros sex blog eros sex blog to eros blogs copyright liability for service providers, and to eros sex blog them from any general duty to police their services or unilaterally to eros blog filters or other devices to sort out infringing eros blog.44 The eros blogs multi-factored tests for eros sex blog and eros sex blog liability advocated by petitioners here are antithetical to the goals of the DMCA and would do precisely what Congress wished to eros blog in that legislation.4 5
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