(entry last updated: 2003-01-27 19:20:32)

• A throughly entertaining entry at Copyfight today - more on several of the items listed here.

• Declan McCullagh has a shout-out to all you unindicted Federal felons out there - you know, the ones sharing files on the internet - thanks to the No Electronic Theft Act.

• Salon has posted letters in response to Siva Viahyanathan’s article on the post-Eldred fallout. A set of excellent examples of the complications remaining in just stating the terms of the debate, much less reaching any sort of social, political and legal consensus.

• Aqua can rest easy - the Supreme Court says “Barbie Girl” is not an infringement of the Mattel Corp’s intellectual property. Cert. denied 02-633

• Doc Searls expresses his views on the current state of webcasting/webradio while describing the efforts some stations are making to stay online.

• Hiawatha Bray trumpets the “RIAA Strikes Back” in his Boston Globe column today [local PDF]. Of course, to counter his position that they are starting to get it, we have this Reuters newswire piece at USAToday that also recounts the European industries’ failures with the EU Copyright Directive.
  

  [Rosen] said the trade body has no plans to develop compulsory licensing arrangements or impose fees on ISPs to recoup sales lost to file-trading. “That would be a dramatic departure (from the RIAA’s strategy),” she said.

• The NYTimes reports that a group of music retailers are going to start up an MP3 outlet called Echo - also at SiliconValley.com - Slashdot discussion

• An a related story, the NYTimes also discusses digital audio over cable & satellite TV - another distribution channel that seems to be making a little money, at least

• Today’s Foxtrot cartoon offers up a post-Eldred comment.

• Today we get to see why Garry Trudeau was recycling strips - a new direction in the discussion of file sharing. Given that the last time he ran this, he closed with Mike and his daughter agreeing to disagree, the fact that Jimmy Thudpucker is in favor of file sharing this time around means that Mr. Trudeau is willing to revisit and rethink his positions - in public! Hats off to him, however he resolves the issue this time around.

• The Palladium name change gets Register ink.

• Illegal Art gets a Slashdot review (earlier NYTimes review)

• The Economist’s article on reducing copyright terms to 14 years gets a Slashdot discussion

• Jenny Levine gives more more details on the online foray of Phish. (My writeup is here)