Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; RIAA; and Copyright Infringement

The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are lobbying for a pair of bills that enjoy bipartisan support. Both are designed to give the federal government more power to police copyright violations, and both are likely to run into opposition from political foes of the RIAA and MPAA.

This is an unabridged transcript of Don Reisingers interview with the RIAA.

The RIAA has quickly become one of the most disliked organizations in the world. Working ostensibly with the interests of the artists in mind, the organization has single-handedly instituted a policy of lawsuits and education in an attempt to curb the piracy of music.

The Oregon state attorney general is resisting the music labels' demand for consumer identities, including 17 students at the University of Oregon.

"Earlier this year, Ohio University finished atop the recording industry’s infamous list of institutions receiving the most copyright-infringement notices. But these days the university is singing a much happier tune: Campus officials say a ban on peer-to-peer networking has cut down on piracy without restricting legal file sharing."

The author suggests that schools may be purposely not retaining IP logging data on students to protect them from copyright infringement lawsuits.

"Nineteen students at George Washington University are about to become the next targets of the recording industry's wrath."

"Free doesn't always mean legal when you're downloading music. And critics say the recording industry's muddying the waters its spent years in court trying to clear up."