First the frownies: The Register reported that Dr. Dre's threatened lawsuit against Napster would be filed today. And the lawyer who's been doing all the filing hinted that more bands would soon - ahem - follow suit.

CNET (CNET) reported that Indiana University (dossier) had followed Yale's lead, becoming the second of the three schools named in Metallica's earlier action to ban Napster from the campus.

Now the smileys: The third university named by Metallica, the University of Southern California (dossier), is sticking by Napster, albeit with qualified support. ABCNews.com ran an AP feed quoting the restrictions USC intends to erect: Napster can be used on campus "only for demonstrably legal purposes . . . and under university supervision"

And the Mercury News and Salon covered hard-rock band Limp Bizkit's "We love Napster" announcement. The band is planning a 10-city tour, free to its fans; the Netco will underwrite the tour's cost to the tune of $1.8 million. Salon's Eric Boehlert teased the ironies out of some tangled music-biz relationships, as bands, labels and managers line up for and against Napster.

Finally, Upside ran a Sam Williams interview with Columbia law professor Eben Moglen, who painted the biggest imaginable historical picture of the Napster controversy and other intellectual-property battles. Moglen, noting that "judges are always a generation older than the world they're deciding about," advised us to expect decades of battle before society settles these issues. - Keith Dawson

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The Industry Standard

More Artists to Sue Napster Says Metallica Lawyer
Register

Indiana University Gets Cautious, Drops Napster
CNET

Not on the Bandwagon (AP)
ABC News

Napster Undeterred by Musician's Demands
CNET

Napster Will Sponsor Free Summer Tour for Limp Bizkit
Salon

Limp Bizkit Takes Napster's Side in Net Music Controversy (Reuters)
Silicon Valley