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The Copyright Divide, Peter K. Yu Nov 2003

The Copyright Divide, Peter K. Yu

Faculty Scholarship

Most recently, the recording industry filed 261 lawsuits against individuals who illegally downloaded and distributed a large amount of music via peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, such as KaZaA, Grokster, iMesh, and Gnutella. Although the industry's recent approach was controversial and resulted in major criticisms from legislators, academics, civil libertarians, consumer advocates, and university officials, the copyright holders' aggressive tactics are not new.

In fact, copyright holders have been known for using, or encouraging their government to use, coercive power to protect their creative works. Only a decade ago, the U.S. copyright industries have lobbied their government to use strong-armed tactics to …

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Copyright Ownership & The Impact On Academic Libraries, Laura N. Gasaway Nov 2003

Copyright Ownership & The Impact On Academic Libraries, Laura N. Gasaway

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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Re-Pressing The Internet: Journalists Battle For Equal Access, Zrinka Rukavina Nov 2003

Re-Pressing The Internet: Journalists Battle For Equal Access, Zrinka Rukavina

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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Soldiers Of The State: Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations, Richard D. Hooker Jr. Nov 2003

Soldiers Of The State: Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations, Richard D. Hooker Jr.

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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The Promise And Peril Of Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Promotion On The Internet, Timothy S. Hall Nov 2003

The Promise And Peril Of Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Promotion On The Internet, Timothy S. Hall

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Race And Local Television News Crime Coverage, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt Nov 2003

Race And Local Television News Crime Coverage, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

Viewers of local television newscasts across the United States are regularly exposed to crime news stories. Crime coverage by local television stations is studied with an interest in how live reporting, dramatic video, and timeliness influence perceptions of race in the United States. Crime coverage did not always identify the race of a suspect because that information often was not available from police. However, when violent criminals or suspects were identified, race normally was shown through a mug shot, photograph, or video from the scene. When an African-American suspect was shown in police custody, the images tended to reinforce existing …

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Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response Of Law Enforcement., Janis Wolak, Kimberly J. Mitchell, David Finkelhor Nov 2003

Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response Of Law Enforcement., Janis Wolak, Kimberly J. Mitchell, David Finkelhor

Crimes Against Children Research Center

The Internet1 and computers have come to play a growing role in sex crimes that are committed against children and youth.2 Since the mid-1990s these developing technologies have posed challenges for law enforcement requiring them to confront situations not anticipated in criminal statutes, master technical advances, develop new investigative techniques, and handle criminal cases that often span multiple jurisdictions. To assist, legislators have acted on a number of fronts creating new statutes that encompass Internet offenses, stiffening penalties, and creating a national clearinghouse for reports of Internet-related crimes against children and the CyberTipline® operated by the National Center for Missing …

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Gambling With Terrorism And U.S. Military Readiness: Time To Ban Video Gambling Devices On U.S. Military Bases And Facilities?, John Warren Kindt Nov 2003

Gambling With Terrorism And U.S. Military Readiness: Time To Ban Video Gambling Devices On U.S. Military Bases And Facilities?, John Warren Kindt

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article examines the effect that video gambling devices (VGDs) on US military bases have on military readiness in the 21st century's "Age of Terrorism. " The harmful effects of gambling on military personnel outweigh any potential benefits. However, this conclusion is not clear from the information upon which military analysts and researchers rely. Upon examining the harmful effects that gambling has on military readiness, issues arise regarding the potential biases of the informational sources that study the impact of gambling. A review of these informational sources reveals that many sources have close associations with the gambling industry including the …

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Health Care Law, Kathleen M. Mccauley Nov 2003

Health Care Law, Kathleen M. Mccauley

University of Richmond Law Review

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What Are We Learning From Experience With Markets For Environmental Services In Costa Rica? A Review And Critique Of The Literature, November 2003, Manrique Rojas, Bruce Aylward Nov 2003

What Are We Learning From Experience With Markets For Environmental Services In Costa Rica? A Review And Critique Of The Literature, November 2003, Manrique Rojas, Bruce Aylward

Monteverde Institute: Economy and Resource Management

The use of markets and payments for environmental services is a topic gaining increasing attention amongst policy-makers and environment and development practitioners around the globe. Simply put, the term ‘environmental services’ can be taken to refer to the overall concept of natural systems providing a continuous flow of valuable goods and services to society. This is in contrast to similar services provided by man-made physical infrastructure and technological capital (i.e. water treatment, artificial fertilization, genetic modification) for which these environmental services are a substitute. The use of market mechanisms as a means of incorporating the economic value of these environmental …

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What Are We Learning From Experience With Markets For Environmental Services In Costa Rica? A Review And Critique Of The Literature, November 2003, Manrique Rojas, Bruce Aylward Nov 2003

What Are We Learning From Experience With Markets For Environmental Services In Costa Rica? A Review And Critique Of The Literature, November 2003, Manrique Rojas, Bruce Aylward

Monteverde Institute: Economy and Resource Management

The use of markets and payments for environmental services is a topic gaining increasing attention amongst policy-makers and environment and development practitioners around the globe. Simply put, the term ‘environmental services’ can be taken to refer to the overall concept of natural systems providing a continuous flow of valuable goods and services to society. This is in contrast to similar services provided by man-made physical infrastructure and technological capital (i.e. water treatment, artificial fertilization, genetic modification) for which these environmental services are a substitute. The use of market mechanisms as a means of incorporating the economic value of these environmental …

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Policy-Making And Connections To Violence: A Case Study Of India, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Frederic S. Pearson Nov 2003

Policy-Making And Connections To Violence: A Case Study Of India, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Frederic S. Pearson

Peace and Conflict Studies

This paper explores the role of identity-based, or discriminatory, policy in facilitating the outbreak of ethnopolitical violence in India. A discriminatory policy is the merging of communal group identity with the state apparatus. It is argued that as the Indian government enacts policies beneficial or discriminatory to particular identity groups within the country, other groups feel threatened. Groups who feel disadvantaged by the policy may begin to fear for their own security and political interests motivating them to rebel. When focusing on Indian policy and ethnopolitical violence during the period 1945 to 2000, the authors find that, although there are …

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The Lingnan Commentary - November 2003 (No. 8), Hong Kong Institute Of Business Studies, Lingnan University Nov 2003

The Lingnan Commentary - November 2003 (No. 8), Hong Kong Institute Of Business Studies, Lingnan University

The Lingnan Commentary 嶺南評論 : A Quarterly Review of Economic, Business and Social Issues by Lingnan University

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Drm And Research Libraries: Common Ground?, Bill Rosenblatt Nov 2003

Drm And Research Libraries: Common Ground?, Bill Rosenblatt

Against the Grain

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Exploiting Commercial Satcom: A Betterway, Patrick Rayermann Nov 2003

Exploiting Commercial Satcom: A Betterway, Patrick Rayermann

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Continuing A Study Of Place, Brian Emery Nov 2003

Continuing A Study Of Place, Brian Emery

Theses

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Effect Of External Electric Field On The Bulk And Interfacial Properties Of Weakly Dipolar Fluid In Slab-Shaped And Sphere-Shaped Systems, V.B. Warshavsky, Xiao Cheng Zeng Nov 2003

Effect Of External Electric Field On The Bulk And Interfacial Properties Of Weakly Dipolar Fluid In Slab-Shaped And Sphere-Shaped Systems, V.B. Warshavsky, Xiao Cheng Zeng

Xiao Cheng Zeng Publications

The effect of a uniform electric field on the bulk and interfacial properties of a model dipolar fluid is investigated by using a modified mean-field density functional theory. Particular attention is given to the dependence of the vapor-liquid phase coexistence in a slab-shaped system on the direction of the electric field with respect to the slab surfaces, as well as in the sphere-shaped system on the surrounding dielectric permittivity. For planar vapor-liquid interfaces, the interfacial profiles of the orientation order parameters and components of the dielectric-permittivity tensor are calculated. Analytical expressions for these interfacial profiles and their dependence on the …

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Dragon Or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons In A Modernizing China, Thomas M. Kane Nov 2003

Dragon Or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons In A Modernizing China, Thomas M. Kane

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Content-Aware Authentication Of Motion Jpeg2000 Stream In Lossy Networks, Yongdong Wu, Robert H. Deng Nov 2003

Content-Aware Authentication Of Motion Jpeg2000 Stream In Lossy Networks, Yongdong Wu, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Stream authentication schemes (SAS) aim to achieve effective authentication of multicast streams over lossy networks. Almost all the existing SASs is designed for stream data integrity protection only. In this paper, we argue that content integrity protection is more important than data integrity to human users. We present a content-aware SAS in motion JPEG2000 streaming. In our scheme, a chunk of JPEG2000 codestreams is encapsulated into a block of packets using multiple description coding (MDC). Our MDC exploits the inherent structure of motion JPEG2000 codestreams and is used to preserve the semanteme/content of the stream over lossy networks. To achieve …

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Oci-Based Group Communication Support In Corba, Dongman Lee, Dukyun Nam, Hee Yong Youn, Chansu Yu Nov 2003

Oci-Based Group Communication Support In Corba, Dongman Lee, Dukyun Nam, Hee Yong Youn, Chansu Yu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Group communication is a useful mechanism guaranteeing consistency among replicated objects. The existing approaches do not allow transparent plug-in of group communication protocols into CORBA. They either require modification of CORBA or OS, or provide no room for incorporating group communication transport protocols into CORBA. We thus propose a generic group communication framework that allows transparent plug-in of various group communication protocols with no modification of existing CORBA. We extend the open communications interface (OCI) to support interoperability, reusability of existing group communication, and independency on ORB and OS. We also define the group communication inter-ORB protocol (GCIOP) as a …

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Faculty Development For Teaching Online: Educational And Technological Issues, Anne M. Barker Nov 2003

Faculty Development For Teaching Online: Educational And Technological Issues, Anne M. Barker

Nursing Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to describe the process of creating a faculty development program for online instruction. Both educational and technological issues are discussed. Factors that will facilitate and barriers that will impede the implementation of online courses are included. Many faculty concerns regarding online courses relate to the issues of quality and student learning. Faculty development activities are directed to ensure that courses are developed using sound educational theory and principles. Online courses are first about student learning; using the technology is second. Thus, faculty development programs must be two-pronged, involving instructional design and technology. It is …

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Effects Of Salts On Crystallization Kinetics And Rheological Behavior Of Concentrated , -Trehalose Solutions, Marina Cerdeira, M. C. Puppo, Silvana Martini, M. L. Herrera Nov 2003

Effects Of Salts On Crystallization Kinetics And Rheological Behavior Of Concentrated , -Trehalose Solutions, Marina Cerdeira, M. C. Puppo, Silvana Martini, M. L. Herrera

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

The effect of addition of CaCl2 2H2O and MgCl2 6H2O on crystallization kinetics and the rheological behavior of a 70% trehalose solution was studied by polarized light microscopy and dynamic oscillatory rheometry. Salts caused a delay on nucleation with induction times for crystallization longer for Mg2+ than for Ca2+. Divalent cations were incorporated into crystals, changing the growth of certain faces preferentially, which resulted in changes in morphology. Addition of CaCl2 2H2O in a high salt/trehalose molar ratio dramatically increased complex modulus (G*), indicating a stronger viscoelastic behavior. A gel-like structure was formed when Ca2+ was added to trehalose solution. …

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Newspaper Coverage Of Animal Abuse, Lara Jasmine Imbrock Nov 2003

Newspaper Coverage Of Animal Abuse, Lara Jasmine Imbrock

Student Work

The abuse of animals is an important social issue. Animals play a vital role in society, serving as companions and service animals for people. A qualitative content analysis was conducted to evaluate Midwest newspaper coverage of animal abuse in 1993, 1998, and 2002. The theories of social construction of reality, agenda setting, and priming were used to examine the effects of media coverage of animal abuse. Results showed that animal abuse has received increased coverage over the years.

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Regulation By Networks, Avitai Aviram Nov 2003

Regulation By Networks, Avitai Aviram

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Reforming Securities Class Actions From The Bench: Judging Fiduciaries And Fiduciary Judging, Lisa L. Casey Nov 2003

Reforming Securities Class Actions From The Bench: Judging Fiduciaries And Fiduciary Judging, Lisa L. Casey

BYU Law Review

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For And Against Marriage: A Revision, Anita Bernstein Nov 2003

For And Against Marriage: A Revision, Anita Bernstein

Michigan Law Review

When anthropologist Henry Sumner Maine issued his famous proclamation that modern legal development evolved "from Status to Contract," he used juridical categories to make a statement about progress. Voluntary relations now build the law, Maine declared. The alternative to voluntary relations - identity-based legal labels to decree what people may and may not do - must relocate to the dustbin of history. Only a backwater society would keep them. American legal change in the century-plus since Maine's death in 1888 gives credence to the claim that status inexorably yields to contract. At one level, newer developments refute the Maine thesis. …

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Recent Books, Michigan Law Review Nov 2003

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Books received by the Law Review.

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The Team Physician: An Analysis Of The Causes Of Action, Conflicts, Defenses And Improvements, Michael Landis Nov 2003

The Team Physician: An Analysis Of The Causes Of Action, Conflicts, Defenses And Improvements, Michael Landis

DePaul Journal of Sports Law

No abstract provided.

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Sports: A Big-Time Player In The Political Arena, Michael Zink Nov 2003

Sports: A Big-Time Player In The Political Arena, Michael Zink

DePaul Journal of Sports Law

No abstract provided.

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Why Changes Must Be Made To The Standards Of Review Used To Determine Meaningful Attorney Involvement Under The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Eric M. Berman Esq. Nov 2003

Why Changes Must Be Made To The Standards Of Review Used To Determine Meaningful Attorney Involvement Under The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Eric M. Berman Esq.

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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