RIAA sues college students over illegal downloads

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced today that they will be suing students for copyright infringement at several colleges that use the Internet2 network .

Internet2 is an advanced network developed by participating universities to facilitate research such as data required for experiments, large image files, etc. This network also enables music and motion picture files to be sent in seconds as opposed to the ubiquitous Internet where files such as these can take several minutes. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is planning a similar suit.

There was an article about this in every major newspaper today. Read some of them in our Newspapers database. Here is a link to the story at the RIAA website.

2004 National Recordings Registry

The latest 50 additions to the National Recordings Registry were recently announced. Each year, the Registry adds recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Recordings must be at least 10 years old to be considered.

The 2004 entries are found here and the entire list can be found here.

Arts Employment

A new study was recently released stating that arts-related businesses account for 4.4 percent of all businesses and 2.2 percent of all jobs. Almost 3 million people in the United States are employed in an arts-related business.

Read about it here: Creative Industries 2005: The Congressional Report

Pulitzer Prizes announced

Don't know how many of you caught this year's Pulitzer Prizes in the arts but here they are:

Biography: De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.

Drama: Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.

Music: Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky.

Here's a link for a New York Times article with more details.

All of these titles will be available in the Library when they are available.