October 26, 2007
What Would You Ask the Recording Industry's Cary Sherman?
Next week our Tech Therapy podcast is heading down to the offices of the Recording Industry Association of America to talk to Cary Sherman.
Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast want to hear from you. What should we ask Mr. Sherman? What message should we pass on from CIO’s and administrators in higher education?
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Is there a really easy way to legally license music for classroom educational use?
What about “snippets” of a piece of music for use in commercial presentations?
— Rob Oct 29, 08:19 AM #
While I fully accept the responsibility to educate our students about copyright and the law, I would like to know why RIAA focuses exclusively on higher education. Are they contacting other ISP’s about download of copyrighted material? If so, why is it so silent? If not, why not? It feels like Higher Ed is being targeted and identified as “the problem”, when we all know the issues extend to all ISP’s.
— Bruce Oct 29, 12:43 PM #
Higher education people should be asking this set of questions:
1. Why do you bring the discovery proceedings ex parte (i.e., without prior notice)?
2. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to ask the university if it will agree to hold on to the records for 90 days or so, and if it says yes, for you to bring the motion on notice, giving the university copies to disseminate to the “John Does” of the summons, complaint, court rules and announcements, and all the motion papers, so that the students have ample time to consult with legal counsel before, rather than after, the judge has already ruled against them?
3. Isn’t it normal to give prior notice in our court system?
4. Don’t you think colleges have a responsibility to their students and the students’ families to ensure that their due process rights are respected?
5. Isn’t it unethical of your organization to try to take advantage that way?
— Ray Beckerman Oct 30, 04:56 PM #
1. I’d like to see some “independently validated” numbers: the count and percentage distribution of Take Down Notices and Early Settlement Letters sent to commercial ISP’s (Comcast, Time-Warner, etc.) vs. the count and percentage sent to Higher Ed.
2. I’d like to know how the RIAA is targeting the 80% of college students who DON’T live on campus.
3. I’d also like to know how the RIAA decides which universities to target for Take Down Notices. I believe that their choice is somewhat arbitrary and may even be punitive in terms of focusing on Univerisities that they judge to be too “lax” with respect to illegal filesharing.
4. Finally, I’d like to know how to recover our DMCA notice response expenses from the RIAA (a la the deal they signed with the University of Nebraska).
— Don Oct 30, 05:52 PM #
I’d like to know what their role was in getting Ohio University to buy the “CopySense” software made by Audible Magic, which is the business partner of the company partly owned by the RIAA’s “expert witness” Dr. Doug Jacobson.
— Ray Beckerman Nov 1, 08:25 AM #