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“37 years of Quality Service” Mercedes • BMW • Volkswagen • Audi German Auto Service 342-2912 • 2025 Franklin Blvd. Eugene, Oregon, 97402 Come support Alpha Phi Sorority Saturday May 20th 1-5 pm at Alpha Phi Sorority on 1050 Hilyard St. s Money will be donated to the Cardiac Care Unit of Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital Friday, May 19 Willamette Valley Folk Festival: The annual festival, oldest in the North west, offers three days of music, workshops, food, craft vendors and fun. Noon to 10 p.m. daily..East Lawn, EMU. Free. For information, call the Cultural Forum, 346-4373. Humanities Work-in-Progress Talk: Paul Peppis, English, discusses "New Poetry, New Science, New Women: Mina Loy, Marie Stopesand Sexolo gy.” Noon to 1 p.m. 159 PLC. Free. For information, browse darkwing.uoregon.edu/~humanctr/ or call 346-3934. Men Against Sexism Discussion: Men who took part in “Take Back the Night” are invited to discuss issues and feelings raised by their participa tion. 2 to 4 p.m. 8 Pacific. Free. For information, call 346-4095. Architecture Lecture: Architect Patri cia Patkau of Vancouver, B.C., speaks. 5:15 p.m. 177 Lawrence. Free. For information, call 346-3656. Cultural Forum Film Series: “ Point Blank," director John Boorman’s first film, stars Lee Marvin, a killer out for revenge. 8 p.m. Room 180, PLC Hall. $3 general admission, $2 students. For information, call 346-4373. Saturday-Sunday, May 20,21 Spring Family Weekend: Various tours, performances, exhibits and other events around campus, includ ing the University Honors and Awards Luncheon at noon Saturday and the Greek Awards ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, in the EMU Ball room. The Multicultural Affairs Awards and Graduation Ceremony are at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall, 1468 Univer sity St. Register noon to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the EMU west en trance. For information, call 346 3216. Napster discord intensifies ■A federal judge has ruled that the popular on-line music provider has broken copyright laws By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald The controversy surrounding MP3 music provider Napster con it’s here Now! UO Summer jp Session Duck Can. 4 Register Now tor Summer Glasses. ^ book Your Summer in Oregon Summer session starts June 19. Pick up your free summer bulletin today in the Summer Session office, 333 Oregon Hall, or at the UO Bookstore. You can speed your way toward graduation by taking required courses during summer. University of Oregon Summer Session http://itosummer.uoregon.eilu/ tinues to stay hot after a federal judge in New York ruled the com pany and similar providers were breaking copyright law by allow ing their users to access and trade songs for free. The court decided that Napster contributes to copyright infringe ment by providing a database to its users that allows for the free stor age and access to their favorite songs. The music is compressed in the popu lar MP3 for mat and can be accessed via any com puter with an Internet connection, without paying artists for their copyrighted work. After the April 28 court ruling, Napster asked Metallica to provide the names of the Napster users who have committed copyright in fringement and promised to re move those users from its service. Metallica provided a list with more than 300,000 names of Nap ster users who it said infringed on the band’s copyright. Napster banned those users, 30,000 of which are now appealing the court ruling. Napster apparently advised banned users they had a right to appeal the ban if they felt they had been misidentified. Napster has quickly gained pop ularity among college students at the University and nationwide for offering free music at the click of a mouse, and that has not changed throughout the controversy. Cory Coleman, a senior double majoring in computer science and psychology, said that many banned Napster users signed up again for the service minutes after they had been deleted, simply us ing a different log-in name. He also said that Napster users among his friends continue to use the MP3 provider. “It doesn’t affect the individual user yet,” he said. “Almost every one I know in the dorms uses Nap ster and continues to use Napster.” The Recording Industry Associ ation of America and artists such as Metallica have sued Napster for violating their copyrights. Nap ster’s defense has been that it is no different from such Internet serv ice providers as America Online and thus is not responsible for any piracy its users might be commit ting. Internet service providers are only responsible under the law to ban users if they use their service to break copyright law. Rapper Dr. Dre on Wednesday also delivered a long list of users he wanted Napster to remove from its service. Dr. Dre asked that Nap ster either ban almost 240,000 users or delete his songs from the service. Napster agreed to review the list of users but said it would not delete the songs. Despite the le gal action over the past few weeks, Keith Aoki, an associate professor at the School of Law, said that Uni versity students and other Napster users are unlikely to become a tar get of lawsuits. “The liability is not so much in dividual students,” he said. “It would cost a lot of money to go af ter individual students.” Going after 300,000 individuals could simply be too expensive and tedious, he explained. Instead, Aoki said he expects the RIAA and Metallica to target larger entities like universities. Last month, Metallica and other music artists filed a lawsuit against the University of Southern Califor nia, Yale University and Indiana University, which all allow their students access to the MP3 provider. The suit alleged that the universities and Napster promote piracy by allowing users to trade copyrighted songs at no cost. The suit against Yale was dropped when that school banned its students from accessing the MP3 provider. While the University has been monitoring developments regard ing Napster, Joanne Hugi, director of the University Computing Cen ter, said there,are no plans to ban the MP3 provider. She said the court ruling in New York applies more to Napster users rather than universities. But she also said the computing center has recently checked how Turn to Napster, page 6A P.O.Box 3159. Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Dailv Emerald is published daily Mon day through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald operates inde pendently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. 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