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Black History Month group of the day
The Freedom Riders were people across the coun
try in 1961 who boarded buses, trains and planes bound
for Southern states to protest the outdated Jim Crow
laws and noncompliance with a U.S. Supreme Court
decision prohibiting segregation. Many of these people
were college students.
The Freedom Riders used methods of nonviolent
protest, as trained by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose
leadership during the Montgomery Bus Boycott helped
bring to an end to the Alabama city’s segregation poli
cies in the mid-1950s.
They gathered for dinner in Washington, D.C., the
evening before the first ride on May 4,1961 and began
their protest the next morning. Blacks and whites sat to
gether on the bus, and when the bus stopped, they en
tered “restricted” areas —* areas designated for either
blacks or whites.
They met little resistance to their protests until the
bus reached Rockford, N.G., where an enraged mob be
gan beating the Freedom Riders. It was the first of many
beatings the riders would receive along the way.
At President John F. Kennedy’s request, the Freedom
Riders were escorted safely to Jackson, Miss., at which
point they were arrested and jailed. At Parchman
prison, conditions worsened, but the riders responded
to their harsh treatment by singing freedom songs.
—Jessica Richelderfer
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digital technology.
“This is a whole new realm for a
lot of people,” guitarist Julia Landa
said, adding that tart actively en
courages its fans to make mp3s of its
music and even offers many of its
songs on its Web site. “If a person
likes the music, they’re going to buy
the CD. Ultimately, people will still
buy CDs, and people shouldn’t feel
threatened by mp3s.”
The conference is more than just
a chance to showcase Northwest
artists, however. University Profes
sor Keith Aoki said the event would
be a chance for law students and oth
ers to discuss the legal issues sur
rounding digital music.
Aoki said January’s 7-2 Supreme
Court decision backing the Sonny
Bono Copyright Extension Act of
1998 was an important example of
how the legal system can often favor
corporate rights at the expense of the
consumer. Aoki, who worked with a
team of legal experts and submitted
an amicus brief arguing against the
Court’s ruling, said he was disappoint
ed with the results of the act, which
extends personal copyright from 50 to
75 years and corporate copyright
from 75 to 95 years. Now, he said,
great works from the 1920s won’t be
accessible to the public for another
two decades.
The professor added, however,
that the advent of digital music sys
tems like mp3s have kept con
sumers one step ahead of recording
companies, even with the bankrupt
cy of file-sharing innovator Napster.
“It’s basically made music transfer
incredibly easy,” he said. “The Napster
case did shut down Napster, but the
technology keeps on jumping ahead.”
The conference, which is free to
the public, is from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
today at the law school and 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Beall Hall.
Proceeds from tonight’s concert go
to support future events hosted by
SELF, and tickets can be purchased
for #10 at the EMU Ticket Office or
#12 at the door.
Contact the news editor
at brookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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In February 2001, the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals found that
Napster knew its users were violat
ing copyright law, and Napster came
to an agreement to remove a list of
songs from its server.
After Napster was created, a flurry
of similar services were established,
such as KaZaA.
According to Resident Hall Com
puting Services Coordinator Norm
Meyers, the University started to
monitor file sharing within the resi
dent halls three to four years ago.
“(The computing services) focus is
on the academic side, but the enter
tainment sides, such as music,
movies, etc., are a plus,” Meyers said.
“We don’t encourage (downloading),
but we don’t discourage it as long as
(the students) are responsible.”
The University, obliged to oversee
uploads to protect itself from law
suits, monitors what students do on
line through a #50,000 network pro
gram called Packeteer. The program
restricts peer-to-peer file sharing by
monitoring Internet traffic and di
recting entertainment downloads to
a slower, lower-priority pathway.
Contact the reporter
at alishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
tart
& an evening with Krist Novoselic of Nirvana
with: Andrea Maxand / DJ Velo / Jade Bassix / Alpha Charlie / Like Breathing
FRIDAY / FEB 21 / 8PM / WOW HALL / EUGENE OR
Tickets $10 in advance/$12 at door
available at WOW Hall (541) 687-2746
and at EMU ticket office (541) 346-4363
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http://www.law.uoregon.edu/org/self/
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TO EXPOSE THE ISSUES THAT CHALLENGE YOUR RIGHT TO HEAR NEW MUSIC
FEB. 21 / University of Oregon School of Law, room 175/ 4-6pm
FEB. 22 / University of Oregon School of Music, Beall Hall / 10am-4:30pm
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