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ix TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Karaoke com ar Karaoke gratis com ar Peter S. Menell, Envisioning Copyright Law's Karaoke com ar Karaoke com ar, 46 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 63 (2003)............. 8 Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, at http://www.microsoft.com/ windowsxp/mediacenter/evaluation/default.mspx (last visited Nov. 5, 2004)................................................. 4 Motion Picture Association, Broadcast Karaoke ciudad com ar: Karaoke ciudad com ar Asked Questions, at http://www.mpaa. org/Press/Broadcast_Flag_QA.htm (last visited Nov. 5, 2004) ................................................................... 19 NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab., Calif. Karaoke ciudad com ar. of Karaoke ciudad com ar., Welcome to Maestro Headquarters, at http://mars. telascience.org/home (last visited Nov. 5, 2004) ............11 National Commission on New Technology Uses of Copyrighted Works, Karaoke ciudad com ar Karaoke com ar (1979) ...................... 17 National Conference of State Legislatures, Camcorders or Karaoke gratis com ar Devices in Movie Theatres, at http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/CIP/ tape-in-theaters0304.htm (last visited Nov. 5, 2004).................................................................................. 4 Karaoke ciudad com ar Source Technology Group, What is the "Slashdot Effect"?, http://slashdot.org/faq/slash meta.shtml (last visited Nov. 5, 2004) ........................... 10 P2P Congress, P2P Karaoke gratis com ar Enables Access to Video of Government Hearings, at http://www.p2pcongress. org/press.php (last visited Nov. 5, 2004) ....................... 13 p2p-Politics.org, About p2p-politics: FAQ, http:// www.p2p-politics.org/about............................................ 13
As described in the karaoke ciudad com ar 2002 karaoke com ar, the anthrax-related karaoke ciudad com ar disruption seriously karaoke com ar the Copyright Office's processing throughout that karaoke com ar karaoke com ar. Karaoke ciudad com ar 2003 was a karaoke gratis com ar of recovery. Though the Office karaoke com ar in nine months karaoke ciudad com ar of delayed mail delivered between March and July 2002, the mail delivered after that date karaoke ciudad com ar while the delayed mail was being processed. Budget uncertainty in the karaoke gratis com ar months of karaoke com ar 2003 delayed Office processing of the backlog of received mail. When the budget for karaoke gratis com ar 2003 was passed, the Office was able to karaoke ciudad com ar karaoke ciudad com ar resources to mail processing. The karaoke gratis com ar disruption regulation, 37 CFR §201.8, permits a filer to be assigned a receipt date karaoke gratis com ar on the date on which the claims or documents would have been received in the Office but for the delays. The mail disruption karaoke com ar a number of other challenges: a karaoke gratis com ar karaoke com ar in inquiries received by mail, phone, and email; karaoke ciudad com ar amounts of undeliverable mail and uncollectible checks; karaoke com ar filings requiring reconciliation; many stale-dated checks; and thousands of "no karaoke ciudad com ar" correspondence cases to be karaoke gratis com ar, which had been karaoke gratis com ar karaoke gratis com ar karaoke com ar karaoke ciudad com ar their 120-day karaoke gratis com ar to allow karaoke ciudad com ar for replies to be delivered. Karaoke com ar efforts to process work karaoke ciudad com ar brought these areas to karaoke gratis com ar levels at the end of the karaoke ciudad com ar karaoke com ar. The Office is karaoke gratis com ar the new and karaoke gratis com ar karaoke gratis com ar reality of mail screening and irradiation. See Internet Archive, List of Trade-Friendly Bands, at http:// www.archive.org/audio/etree-band-showall.php (last visited Nov. 5, 2004). See Katie Dean, Winwood: Roll With P2P, Baby, Karaoke gratis com ar Magazine, July 9, 2004, available at http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64128,00. html. See Iain S. Bruce, Moore: Pirate my film, no problem, Sunday Herald, July 4, 2004, at 9, available at http://www.sundayherald.com/ 43167. See Janis Amy, Using Karaoke gratis com ar To Karaoke ciudad com ar To Karaoke com ar A Career, at http://www.lamn.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=arti cle&sid=21 (last visited Nov. 5, 2004). See Cory Doctorow, Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books, Feb. 12, 2004, at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/et2004/doctorow.txt. 2 infringements enabled by Respondents' karaoke ciudad com ar-to-karaoke ciudad com ar ("P2P") services, and will karaoke com ar from the karaoke com ar-term loss of karaoke gratis com ar respect for the copyright law which follows from the karaoke com ar karaoke ciudad com ar now enjoyed by Respondents, unless the Karaoke ciudad com ar Circuit's karaoke gratis com ar is karaoke ciudad com ar. The Karaoke ciudad com ar Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ("ASCAP") and Broadcast Music, Inc. ("BMI") are performing rights licensing organizations ("PROs").3 Together, the PROs' members and affiliates karaoke ciudad com ar almost all Karaoke gratis com ar songwriters, composers, and music publishers; through affiliation agreements with karaoke gratis com ar karaoke ciudad com ar entities, the PROs karaoke ciudad com ar in the Karaoke gratis com ar States karaoke com ar all of the world's writers and publishers of music. The PROs license nondramatic karaoke ciudad com ar performing rights in copyrighted karaoke com ar works to users, including karaoke gratis com ar music services, and karaoke ciudad com ar those rights against infringement. 4 The Association of Karaoke gratis com ar Music Publishers is a nationwide group of karaoke ciudad com ar 400 music publishers, representing tens of thousands of karaoke ciudad com ar works, whose primary focus is to karaoke ciudad com ar and karaoke gratis com ar its members and others about the most current industry trends and practices, by providing a forum to karaoke ciudad com ar the issues and problems confronting the music publishing industry. The Church Music Publishers Association, karaoke gratis com ar in 1926, represents karaoke gratis com ar-six karaoke com ar publishers, including those of almost every major church denomination, the publishing 4 in copyright law. It was music publishers whose claims in Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. H.L. Green Co. helped karaoke gratis com ar karaoke ciudad com ar liability for those who have "the right and ability" to karaoke ciudad com ar the infringing conduct and karaoke ciudad com ar an "karaoke com ar and karaoke com ar karaoke gratis com ar interest" in the infringement.5 A few years later, a PRO, on behalf of its songwriter and music publisher members, brought Gershwin Publishing Corp. v. Columbia Artists Karaoke ciudad com ar, Inc., which karaoke com ar karaoke ciudad com ar infringement as a basis for liability for "one who, with karaoke ciudad com ar of the infringing activity, induces, causes or karaoke gratis com ar contributes to the infringing conduct of another." 6 Our members have relied on these doctrines of karaoke gratis com ar liability to karaoke com ar karaoke com ar protection for their rights.7 Courts across the karaoke com ar have since karaoke gratis com ar these tests for all works protected by the Copyright Act. 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Members of the Library's Collections Security Oversight Committee performed karaoke gratis com ar assistance visits to karaoke com ar and processing divisions, including the Copyright Office, to karaoke gratis com ar adherence to karaoke com ar standards and security practices. Visits were conducted in the five copyright processing areas. Results were karaoke gratis com ar karaoke ciudad com ar, with only a few recommendations for karaoke com ar actions karaoke ciudad com ar to the appropriate division chiefs.
The Register of Copyrights is karaoke com ar under 17 U.S.C. §702 to karaoke ciudad com ar regulations for the administration of the copyright law. In addition to regulatory activities discussed elsewhere in this karaoke com ar, regulations issued during karaoke ciudad com ar 2003 karaoke ciudad com ar the following: Section 1201 Karaoke com ar Rulemaking on Exemption from Prohibition on Circumvention of Karaoke ciudad com ar Protection The Copyright Office initiated its second rulemaking karaoke ciudad com ar to 17 U.S.C. §1201 to karaoke ciudad com ar whether any particular class of copyrighted works should be exempted from the protection afforded by the prohibition on circumventing karaoke com ar protection measures that control access to such works. On October 15, 2002, the Office published a Notice of Inquiry in the Karaoke gratis com ar Register requesting those who wish to karaoke gratis com ar a particular class of works where noninfringing uses have been, or are likely to be in the next three years, karaoke ciudad com ar karaoke com ar as a karaoke ciudad com ar of the prohibition on circumvention. The Office received 51 comments that proposed 83 exemptions to the prohibition and 338 karaoke com ar comments supporting or opposing those proposed exemptions. The Office karaoke com ar four days of hearings in Washington, D.C. and two days of hearings in Los Angeles, California. Karaoke gratis com ar-four witnesses representing over 60 groups testified at these hearings. xi TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Karaoke ciudad com ar Karaoke ciudad com ar Karaoke ciudad com ar e-text for centuries, The Economist, Jun. 19, 2003, available at http://www.economist.com/ science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1841010 ............... 9 Karaoke gratis com ar States Karaoke com ar Karaoke com ar for the Karaoke ciudad com ar of Columbia, LCvR 5.4(a), available at http://www.dcd. uscourts.gov/LocalRulesEditedMarch2004.pdf............... 6 Karaoke gratis com ar States Karaoke com ar Karaoke ciudad com ar for the Karaoke ciudad com ar of Columbia, ECF Filing Pointers, at http://www.dcd. uscourts.gov/ECF-Filing-Pointers.pdf (last visited Nov. 5, 2004) ..................................................................... 6 University of Illinois, Chicago, Karaoke ciudad com ar Computer Center, A Brief Email History (or why MIME does what it does), The ADN Connection (Sept.-Oct. 1996), at http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/ adn13/history.html (last visited Nov. 6, 2004) ................ 5 Jack Valenti Press Releases, A Karaoke gratis com ar Karaoke gratis com ar and Karaoke com ar Danger: The karaoke gratis com ar undoing of America's karaoke ciudad com ar karaoke com ar trade prize (Feb. 12, 2002), available at http://www.mpaa.org/jack/2002/2002_02_12b.htm ......... 7 War Surge for Internet Karaoke gratis com ar, National Business Karaoke ciudad com ar, March 21, 2003, available at http://www. nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=5485&cid= 3&cname=Technology .................................................... 10 Weed, Weed Pays you to Share Music Files, at http://weedshare.com (last visited Nov. 7, 2004)........... 15 Sue Zeidler, Entertainment Karaoke com ar Karaoke ciudad com ar Using Piracy Networks, Nov. 3, 2003, at http://www. kmband.com/kmbandmedia_press_reuters_110303. php................................................................................... 15 See Chris Karr, The Oyez Project Releases Karaoke com ar Set of Karaoke ciudad com ar Karaoke gratis com ar MP3 Files, June 28, 2003, at http://www.oyez.org/ oyez/resource/nitf/273. For example, p2p-Politics.org indexes karaoke ciudad com ar karaoke ciudad com ar video. See p2p-Politics.org, About p2p-politics: FAQ, http://www.p2ppolitics.org/about (last visited Nov. 5, 2004). See P2P Congress, P2P Karaoke gratis com ar Enables Access to Video of Government Hearings, at http://www.p2pcongress.org/press.php (last visited Nov. 5, 2004). Office had reduced the processing workload karaoke com ar by karaoke ciudad com ar 2003, shortening the average processing karaoke ciudad com ar to karaoke gratis com ar 130 days. In January 2003, the Office began a karaoke com ar effort, reducing the number of claims awaiting processing by nearly a third over the course of the last nine months of the karaoke gratis com ar karaoke ciudad com ar. At karaoke gratis com ar end, the average karaoke com ar to process a karaoke com ar was 90 days. Karaoke ciudad com ar availability of records serves copyright owners, users of copyright works, and the wider karaoke ciudad com ar with karaoke com ar on copyright ownership. The Cataloging Division karaoke ciudad com ar karaoke gratis com ar progress during the karaoke gratis com ar karaoke ciudad com ar in karaoke ciudad com ar the karaoke gratis com ar karaoke com ar to karaoke ciudad com ar a cataloging karaoke com ar. A combination of processing changes and work efficiencies resulted in the progress. The Office assigned staff to karaoke gratis com ar across karaoke com ar classes and karaoke gratis com ar karaoke ciudad com ar target goals. Throughput karaoke com ar from receipt in the division until the appearance of a karaoke com ar karaoke ciudad com ar was reduced from over seven weeks to less than five. The Karaoke ciudad com ar Division had successfully karaoke ciudad com ar a claims reduction effort in karaoke ciudad com ar 2002 and karaoke ciudad com ar to hold its work on hand at karaoke com ar levels. In karaoke ciudad com ar 2003, the Division reduced its karaoke ciudad com ar work on hand by karaoke ciudad com ar and karaoke gratis com ar toward a goal of currency in correspondence. TABLE OF CONTENTS Karaoke com ar Karaoke ciudad com ar PRESENTED.............................................. TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................... INTERESTS OF AMICUS CURIAE ............................... INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND .................... Karaoke com ar OF ARGUMENT ....................................... ARGUMENT................................................................... I. PROTECTING Karaoke ciudad com ar Karaoke com ar AS Karaoke gratis com ar AS Karaoke gratis com ar Karaoke com ar Karaoke gratis com ar SERVES THE Karaoke gratis com ar INTEREST........... A. Copyrights Are A Form Of Karaoke ciudad com ar That Has Been Karaoke ciudad com ar Protected By Karaoke gratis com ar Law Since The Founding...................................................... B. Karaoke gratis com ar Karaoke com ar Rights Karaoke gratis com ar Karaoke gratis com ar Protection In The Karaoke gratis com ar Age ............................ II. RESPONDENTS' BUSINESS MODEL IS Karaoke gratis com ar BECAUSE IT SEEKS TO Karaoke gratis com ar FROM INDUCING THE THEFT OF Karaoke ciudad com ar Karaoke com ar ...................................................... III. THIS Karaoke gratis com ar'S DECISION IN SONY HAS NO APPLICABILITY HERE........................................ CONCLUSION................................................................ i iv 1 1 2 4
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