It was hailed as ingenious: a way to listen to music on demand while But it was not, and there is. On Friday, the Massachusetts Institute To Jonathan Zittrain, who teaches Internet law at Harvard and is a director from As noted here earlier, MIT attempted to solve the on-campus music-on-demand conundrum by going analog, thereby bypassing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act – Not so fast, gearheads!. It was hailed as ingenious: a way to listen to music on demand … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/riaanap.jpg\")
\nAs noted here
\nearlier<\/a>, MIT attempted to solve the on-campus music-on-demand conundrum
\n by going analog, thereby bypassing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
\n– Not so fast, gearheads!.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n avoiding the legal battleground of file sharing. Best of all, the music
\n was fully licensed, so there would be no legal trouble. <\/p>\n
\n of Technology announced that it would temporarily shut down its groundbreaking
\n Library Access to Music System until the licensing rights can be worked
\n out. <\/p>\n
\n of the university’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, that incident
\n shows that the world of copyright has grown so arcane that even the major
\n players do not even understand it. "It doesn’t seem that M.I.T.
\n was trying to steal anything, but rather to simply hew to the letter
\n of the law in an incredibly byzantine area," he said. "Good
\n faith and technical genius alone doesn’t make it work." <\/p>\n
\n the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"