And the campus, working with the University of California, has taken a leadership position in looking for ways to resolve the issue. over their 2005 movie The Island, which Schreibman alleges is a copyright infringement of a 1979 film he co-produced called The Clonus Horror.)įor UCLA, the download dilemma boils down to basic obligations: protect its students, not to mention itself, and obey the law.

It raises some hairs on the back of my neck.” (The subject is up close and personal for the professor, currently involved in a lawsuit against DreamWorks and Warner Bros. “I am involved in educating the next level of producers and directors, and I am very sensitive to the possibility that their material could be ripped off. ’69, UCLA adjunct professor of film and television.

The problem is the pirate, not the navy, counters Myrl Schreibman ’67, M.F.A. “I think they should be coming up with ways to distribute music effectively on the Internet so that students can have access to music easily and affordably.” And the nation’s universities are caught in the crossfire.ĭoes an institution ban the technology that allows file-sharing, even when it’s used for pristine reasons like student research? More ominously, does it prowl its own networks, looking for culprits? Or does it antagonize the entertainment industry - and Congress, which is trying to legislate the issue - and do nothing? “Piracy is the label the industry has given it in order to justify punitive action,” says Anthony Seeger, a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA and the nephew of legendary folksinger Pete Seeger. Welcome to the download dilemma, a painfully complex stew of points of view that pits kids against corporations, artists against audiences, perceived rights against legal copyrights. Peer-to-peer file-sharing of free downloads means the creators of the works in question get nothing for their creations, which is why record companies, movie studios and a fair number of famous artists have another word for the practice: piracy. Want to share “Dance, Dance” with friends in another dorm? They can use the same file-sharing program to download it from the sender’s hard drive. Launch a popular file-sharing program like Kazaa or LimeWire, and the song is available in minutes.

When a student in one of UCLA’s eight residence halls wants the hit tune “Dance, Dance” from Fall Out Boy, a free version is just a few keystrokes away.

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