From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V2 #55 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Thursday, July 13 2000 Volume 02 : Number 055 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: sorry ["Susan & C. Reid Gardner" ] OV: Re: sorry ["Jane Armstrong" ] OV: The Napster / UMG story gets curiouser & curiouser...... ["Jen Woyan"] OV: Re: The Napster / UMG story gets curiouser & curiouser...... ["Kristy] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:55:11 -0400 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: OV: sorry OK, ok sorry for the stupid King of Denial thing. I was thinking about the "Cleopatra ~ Queen of Denial" tshirt I saw somewhere and in a momentary lack of discretion I just replied. Forgive me? Now will somebody PLEASE tell me what color Iain's guitar case is and if it has any decorations on it? Come on, Kevin, you must have seen something. Jane? Teresa?? Anybody????? TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:20:59 +0100 From: "Jane Armstrong" Subject: OV: Re: sorry I don't know if Iain has a guitar case as such. On tour, his guitars are all kept in a huge big flight case - and there seem to be loads more than he actually plays! Brian (Iain's guitar tech)can be seen beforehand getting the favourites out, lining them up and tuning them - whilst those not needed are left in the case. I think it's got Del Amitri written on it, but can't remember much more. Presumably, if he's doing TV appearances etc they just take the one guitar in a case, but I've never seen them being loaded there. Is this for the painting you are doing? Are you going to have Iain waiting at the station with guitar in hand? Jane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays (now with voice) on http://homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong/chat.html Please note my new URL: http://homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong Del Amitri Pages: http:///homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong/Delpage.html Join The Devlins Mailing List: http://www.egroups.co.uk/subscribe/TheDevlins ICQ # 34643730 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:52:09 -0500 From: "Jen Woyan" Subject: OV: The Napster / UMG story gets curiouser & curiouser...... Napster Hires an Official From Universal Music Group A WSJ.COM News Roundup Napster Inc. pulled off a public-relations coup Wednesday with the announcement that it has hired an official from one of the record companies that is trying to shut the service down. Napster, a San Mateo, Calif., service for sharing digital music, announced that Keith Bernstein has been appointed Vice President of Operations. Mr. Bernstein comes to Napster from Global e, a division of Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group. Napster said that at Universal Music Group, Mr. Bernstein was "directly involved with compliance issues intended to ensure that artist and publishing royalties would be accounted properly to rights holders in connection with Universal's intended sales of digital delivered music." In addition, Napster said, Mr. Bernstein worked on creating "new systems for managing, processing and reporting data collected from the new digital music businesses, including download, subscription, and pay-per-play businesses around the world through channels as varied as in-store kiosks, home computers, TV set top boxes, and wireless devices." Prior to working with the Universal Music Group, Napster said, Mr. Bernstein co-founded the Royalty Review Council, which studied the question of how much revenue might be collected from the digital delivery of music and videos. "We at Napster are eager to develop business models that will benefit artists and songwriters, the music industry and listeners," Hank Barry, Napster's chief executive, said in a prepared statement. "Keith's experience and abilities, coupled with his entrepreneurial insights, make him a perfect fit as we build out our systems and our company." "Napster is at the center of the digital music revolution, and it can bring great benefits to artists and the industry," Mr. Bernstein said in a prepared statement. Napster is an Internet service where people can share MP3 music files on their own computers as well as download songs, most of which are pirated versions of copyrighted music. It has been sued not only by a trade group representing record labels including Universal Music Group, but also by the hard-rock band Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre. Napster hasn't had much success in settlement talks with the recording industry; a hearing in the copyright-infringement case against the company is set for July 26 in federal district court in San Francisco. The suit seeks, in effect, to close down Napster in its current form. Another online music service, MP3.com Inc. of San Diego, recently reached an out-of-court settlement with some big record labels of a separate copyright suit involving different issues. Napster is being assisted legally by David Boies, the attorney who helped the Justice Department prosecute its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. The company's most recent court filing asserted the bold claim that it is perfectly legal for Napster users to share MP3 music through the service, as long as no fees are charged for doing so. Napster contends the company's behavior is an extension of the "fair use" doctrine that, for example, allows someone who buys a CD to also record it on tape for listening on a car stereo while driving to work. But that argument hasn't found much support outside Napster's defense team: Most copyright experts say the fair-use doctrine applies to personal use within a household, not to sharing music files with hundreds or even thousands of strangers via the Internet. Jennifer Woyan jenwoyan@xsite.net 773.271.7660 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:45:08 -0700 From: "Kristy McDonald" Subject: OV: Re: The Napster / UMG story gets curiouser & curiouser...... I'm glad that some music company officials are finally seeing the bright side of Napster . . . the saga continues. I dunno if I'm the only radio watcher, but a sattelite was recently launced from Russia that will lead to national didital radio - at least in the U.S. To follow the story and study the science, see www.siriusradio.com. This is going to change the way we ALL view radio. Kristy in Canada ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V2 #55 *********************************