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Photo by: Gary L. Gehman Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Last Featured: 8/15/2005 Listen to Full Program (Windows Media Player Required) Download the MP3 (Right-click and choose 'Save As...' from the pop-up menu.) Justice Learning Listening Guide (Acrobat PDF file.) Note: Justice Talking ceased production on June 30 of 2008. Link information on this site is not maintained and is provided for historical interest only. Although correct when posted, The Annenberg Public Policy Center makes no claim as the the accuracy or continued availability of any third party web links found on this site. Overview Although the recording industry claims progress with its controversial legal campaign against file swappers, its optimism may clash with evidence that peer-to-peer file sharing is at an all-time high. How far can the entertainment industry go to safeguard its ownership interests in music, movies and other digital content? Guests Dean Garfield is Vice President and Director, Legal Affairs, Worldwide Anti-Piracy at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Prior to joining the MPAA, Garfield was Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Recording Industry of America Association (RIAA) where he managed several intellectual property cases, including litigation against Audiogalaxy, Grokster, Kazaa, Launch and MusicCity. He was also responsible for the management and execution of the Parental Advisory Board. Kembrew McLeod is a journalist, activist, artist and professor in the department of communication studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two books on intellectual property and culture, “Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership and Intellectual Property Law” and “Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity.” He has written music criticism for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Spin, and Mojo, and is the co-producer of a 2001 documentary on the music industry, “Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music.” ©1999-2017 University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved. Any Justice Talking program downloaded or podcast from this site is for personal use only. Any Justice Talking program, or portion of it, may not reproduced, publicly distributed or displayed, used to create a derivative work, or otherwise copied or transmitted to a third party, in any format now known or hereafter discovered, except as expressly permitted by Law. To request permission to use Justice Talking audio, please contact support. NOTE: Justice Talking Blogs and Forums have been closed. Justice Talking’s last broadcast & podcast was June 30, 2008. 17 USC §§ 101 - 810 Current US law governing copyrights Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (Adobe Acrobat PDF) Sony Betamax Case (1984) Landmark case where individuals' limited right to "Fair Use" of copyright content was established. Copyright Act of 1976 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act Pending legislation, passed by the House on April 18, 2005 Electronic Freedom Foundation US Copyright Office Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Creative Commons Recording Artists’ Coalition Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) FreeCulture.org Educause Cato Institute – panel with video Code v.2 by Lawrence Lessig Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan Discovering P2P by Michael Miller Steal This File Sharing Book by Wallace Wang Neurolaw Whose Internet Is It? Identity Theft