To make it faster to load and read,
I made a page for each "case":
Introduction
Copyright and copywrong
"Web piracy"
The N.E.T. Act in the United States
The Church of Scientology cases
The Shetland News hyperlink case
"The day the sites went out in Georgia"
The Digital Object Identifier
Music copyright on the Internet
Are they coming to take me away?
The most recent case
concerning journalists, January 1998
Webography (references)
Procedure (what I did)
The U.S. music royalty organisation BMI uses the program "MusicBot(tm)", which combs the web 24 hours a day, checking for sites that play music. At the same time, this is a way to calculate the royalties for legal sites-those who have registered with BMI.
The Recording Industry Association of America has engaged in several lawsuits against copyright infringers and bootleggers on the net. There is an article about that at Wired News (see URL below).
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