Issues surrounding intellectual property (IP) set the legal agenda this year, and the trend is likely to remain hot in 2004, according to Melbourne based IT lawyer Erhan Karabardak.
2004 will be the year of portable "music gadgets" and see a number of new businesses entering the online music market, according to Domenic Carosa, chief executive of digital music provider Destra Corporation.
The Australian music industry has criticised the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecution's (CDPP) handline of charges brought against three students charged with copyright infringements.
Kylie Minogue's latest single will be available for download weeks before it hits the shops, but online music pirates managed to start swapping the track even before its official Internet release.
Foundstone, an Internet security company, have identified a critical vulnerability in the way Explorer handles MP3 and WMA multimedia files in Windows XP.
A large number of Windows users have jumped at the chance to try Apple Computer's iTunes jukebox software--and reactions are ranging from unabashed praise to complaints of bugs.
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