Volume I

Issue : 7: October 2, 2003

• Legg Mason Ordered to Pay $20 Million in E-Newsletter Copyright Action
• The California Court of Appeals Upholds Regulation Requiring Electronic Fingerprinting of Welfare Recipients.
• U.S. Court of Appeals Stays Injunction Against Telemarketing "Do-Not-Call" List
• Parents Sue School District for Use of Wi-Fi
• Court Bars Minnesota from Regulating VoIP Provider
• New York Man Sentenced to Jail for Online Sale of Copyrighted Music
• U. S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in the Rambus Patent Standards Interface Fight
• EU Releases Privacy Study
• U.S. Supreme Court to Revisit COPA
• U.S. Court Of Appeals 4th Circuit Finds Insurance Policys Property Damage Provision Does Not Extend To Damage To Or By Software.
• Google France Chastised for Sale of Trademarked Keywords

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New York Man Sentenced to Jail for Online Sale of Copyrighted Music

A New York man has been sentenced to six months in jail after being convicted of using the Internet to sell hundreds of CDs that were loaded with unauthorized copies of copyrighted materials from various musical artists. He was also ordered to pay $3,329.50, sentenced to one year of supervised parole and barred from using a computer for one year. The defendant, Alvin A. Davis, used his now defunct website, EmpireRecords.com, to market more than 100 different CDs and cassette tapes featuring compilations of copyrighted materials from various musical artists. The website operated between July 2000 and October 2002. Davis was arrested by an undercover FBI agent who posed as a purchaser of CDs. The recording industry, which blames declining sales over the last few years on Internet piracy and has recently been pursuing suits against users of file sharing software, praised the court's decision.

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