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o RIAA Files Copyright Suit Against Apple-Based File-Sharing Service iMesh
o AOL Time Warner Votes to Drop "AOL" from Corporate Name
o Scholars, Executives Discuss Future of Digital Media At Harvard Conference
o Konami Licenses Movie Rights to "Silent Hill" Horror Video Game


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o RIAA Files Copyright Suit Against Apple-Based File-Sharing Service iMesh

Washington -- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a trade group representing the world's major record labels, announced on Friday that it has filed a copyright infringement suit against iMesh, the Israel-based provider of a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. The suit comes at the same time as the RIAA's appeal of a ruling that said such file-sharing services were not themselves guilty of copyright infringement, instead placing the guilt on individual file-swappers. IMesh operates on the same FastTrack network used by Kazaa and Grokster, one of the firms that was absolved of copyright liability in the ruling the RIAA is appealing. "IMesh's recent conduct and public statements make clear that its goal is to encourage illegal behavior. This action is timed to make clear that there is no free pass for those who center their activity around, and profit from, copyright infringement," RIAA president Cary Sherman said in a statement.
http://www.riaa.com 
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5079454.html
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o AOL Time Warner Votes to Drop "AOL" from Corporate Name

Dulles, Va. -- Following weeks of speculation, the board of media giant AOL Time Warner has voted to drop "AOL" from the company's name. The company, which will be known simply as Time Warner Inc. and have a new ticker symbol "TWX" on the New York Stock Exchange, expects to fully implement the change in the next few weeks. Dick Parsons, the company's chairman and CEO, said that the change "ends any confusion between our corporate name and the America Online brand name for our investors, partners and the public." There is also conjecture that the company is trying to distance itself from the recent troubles at America Online, which has been losing subscribers to faster broadband connections and is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The move comes nearly three years after the $112 billion merger that created AOL Time Warner.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030918/185547_1.html
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o Scholars, Executives Discuss Future of Digital Media At Harvard Conference

Cambridge, Mass. -- Nearly 100 digital media legal scholars, executives and other experts gathered Thursday at Harvard Law School to discuss possible future business models in the rapidly changing arena of Internet-distributed entertainment. The conference was organized by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and analyst firm Gartner G2. Topics discussed included digital rights management schemes, the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) recent filing of copyright infringement lawsuits against individual music file-swappers, and how a compulsory licensing program for the record industry -- which would essentially legalize file-sharing while taxing it somehow to pay creators -- could be implemented. "Today's digital rights management can easily become tomorrow's political rights management," said Electronic Freedom Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow. "The same system that we are increasingly putting in place allowing the record industry to survey your hard disk would allow the government to survey your hard disk with a different purpose."
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=88
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5079007.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34017-2003Sep19.html
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o Konami Licenses Movie Rights to "Silent Hill" Horror Video Game

Redwood City, Calif. -- Konami of America, the U.S. unit of the Japanese video game publisher, announced that it has licensed the movie rights to its psychological horror videogame series "Silent Hill" to production company Davis Films. The "Silent Hill" franchise has sold over 4 million copies in the U.S., Europe and Japan; Konami released "Silent Hill 3" for the PlayStation 2 in August. The movie will be produced by Samuel Hadida ("True Romance," "Spider") and directed by Christophe Gans ("Crying Freeman"). Redwood City, Calif.-based Konami said it will oversee the script's development, participate in the design of all monsters, creatures and characters, and also aid in producing the film's soundtrack.
http://www.konami.com/usa/press/shmovie091703.html

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(New York) Sirius Satellite Radio, a provider of satellite-delivered digital radio programming, said on Friday that Ford Motor Company will offer Sirius receivers as a $329, dealer-installed option on ten different Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles in the 2004 model year. Models include the Ford Thunderbird, Mustang, Explorer, Sport Trac and Expedition; Lincoln Navigator, Aviator, LS and Town Car; and Mercury Mountaineer.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030918/nyth173_1.html
http://www.siriusradio.com

(Cambridge, England) Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB satellite TV network says that it plans to launch an entertainment channel on Freeview, the free-to-air digital television service launched in the U.K. by the BBC a year ago. The new Channel 6 will compete with the five existing terrestrial channels, BBC1 and BBC2, plus commercial networks ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. BSkyB already has three channel slots on Freeview for Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Travel.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E211523F5

(Baton Rouge, La.) The Football Network (TFN), a cable channel that will provide coverage of Division 1-AA conferences including the Big South, Atlantic-10 and the Big Sky, announced on Friday a partnership with Yahoo. Under the terms, Yahoo Sports fantasy columnist Mike Harmon will join TFN's "Fantasy Football 2003" weekly program, hosted by by Paul Crane, Jerry Glanville and Danny Sheridan. The show will now also be available in streaming video on Yahoo.
http://www.footballnetwork.com 
http://fantasysports.yahoo.com

(Calabasas Hills, Calif.) Game developer THQ announced that it has released "Jimmy Neutron: Jet Fusion" for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube. The game is based on the Nickelodeon animated children's TV series; the cable network plans to air a one-hour "Jimmy Neutron" special with the same storyline as the game on Oct. 13, the same day that the Game Boy Advance version of the title is released in stores.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030918/185196_1.html 
http://www.thq.com 
http://www.jimmyneutron.com

(New York) Jesper Kyd, composer of the musical scores to Denmark-based developer IO Interactive's "Hitman" games, said on Friday that he has composed a score for IO's new "Freedom Fighters" title, which will be published by Electronic Arts. The soundtrack, which features a performance by the Hungarian Radio Choir, is now available for sale at Music4Games.net.
http://www.jesperkyd.com 
http://www.music4games.net/freedomfighters.html

(Redwood City, Calif.) Game developer Electronic Arts and partner LEGO Interactive announced on Friday the release of "Drome Racers" for Nintendo GameCube. Cars featured in the game, developed by U.K.-based Attention to Detail Ltd., are based on the 2002 LEGO Racers construction toy range.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030919/195268_1.html 
http://www.atd.co.uk 
http://www.lego.com/interactive/dromeracers

(Mountain View, Calif.) Mobile Digital Media (MDM), a publisher of consumer software for PDAs and smartphones, said on Thursday that it will release "Merriam-Webster Crossword Puzzles & Word Challenges" next month. The company called word games "ideal entertainment for Palm and Pocket PC users."
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cp2KTWbKbytuYmZm  http://www.mdigitalm.com

(Ottawa, Canada) Eatsleepmusic Corp., a licensor of karaoke music, announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to provide karaoke tracks for the company's "Xbox Music Mixer." Launching Oct. 14, the product will allow owners of the video game console to use it as a karaoke machine. Canada-based Eatsleepmusic will provide karaoke tracks on Xboxkaraoke.com that will be downloadable to a PC and then to the Xbox; the device will allow users to rip tracks off of CDs in their own music collections as well.
http://www.eatsleepmusic.com 
http://www.xboxkaraoke.com

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