[A2k] *IPA's April 23 Resolution

[Chris Friend]

I draw your attention to the latest Resolution of the International
Publishers Association released on World Book and copyright Day - "IPA
celebrates World Book and Copyright Day by adopting a resolution entitled
Towards
Equal Access for All".
Full text of resolution can be found at
www.internationalpublishers.org/ -

WBU will work with them to encourage them to convert this commitment into
the reality of more published materials in accessible formats  for visually
impaired and other print handicapped readers towards our aim of 'same day
same price' access.

Chris Friend
Chair, WBU Copyright and Right to Read WG



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On Behalf Of Anne-Catherine Lorrain
Sent: 30 April 2008 11:21
To: a2k@lists.essential.org
Subject: [A2k] RIAA 'making available' theory rejected

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[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] RIAA summary judgment
motion denied in Atlantic v. Howell; RIAA 'making available' theory & Judge
Karas 'offer to distribute' theory rejected: making a music file available
in a Kazaa shared folder is not an unlawful distribution of a copyrighted
work. To infringe the right of distribution under copyright law, the owner
must prove the "actual dissemination of copies or phonorecords," the court
held.

In other words, copyright owners must prove that the file was actually
downloaded by someone.

RIAA qualifies this decision (only a District Court decision) as
"strange"...

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/big-victory-atlantic-v-howell-court-rej
ects-making
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080429-judge-deals-another-blow-to-ri
aas-making-available-theory.html

Anne-Catherine Lorrain
TACD Intellectual Property Officer
TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue
Avenue de Tervueren, 36 bte 4
1040 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 740 28 17
Mobile: +32 473 99 97 92
Cell (US): +1 (202) 390 6264

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