BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Reports New lawsuits filed for music sharing The Recording Industry Association of America brought a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against individual network users at 11 colleges, the industry trade group said Monday. The suits cite several unnamed individuals for illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet using file-sharing networks such as KaZaa, eDonkey and Grokster. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. said that one of the individuals used a computer network at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . Salem purchasing two Fla. stations CAMARILLO - Salem Communications Corp. plans to acquire two Florida-based radio stations for $9.5 million in an effort to establish a greater presence in the Southeast, the company said Monday. Pending regulatory approval, the Camarillo-based company will purchase WGUL-AM (860) in Dunedin, Fla., and WLSS-AM (930) in Sarasota, Fla. Salem plans to operate the stations in its news-talk format, which usually focuses on Christian and family-themed programming. The company already owns two stations serving the Tampa Bay area. FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. clears ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. over 'Ryan' airing WASHINGTON - ABC's broadcast last Veterans Day of the Oscar-winning war movie ``Saving Private Ryan,'' which contains graphic violence and profanity Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God. Vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language. The use of certain profane or obscene language on the radio or television is a federal offense, but in other situations, profanity , did not violate indecency guidelines, regulators ruled Monday. The film contained ``numerous expletives and other potentially offensive language generally as part of the soldiers' dialogue,'' the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. said. ``In light of the overall context in which this material is presented, the commission determined it was not indecent or profane,'' the five-member FCC said in a unanimous decision in denying complaints over the movie. |
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