Indigenous Voices 7/17/07

Producers/hosts: Rhonda Frey and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: The Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor and Sieur De Monts, Maine: The evolving relationship of the Abbe with the Wabanaki Tribes, the Abbe’s collections, exhibits and programs

Guests: Dr. Francine Cararo, Executive Director, Abbe Museum; Raney Bench, Education and Programs Coordinator, Abbe Museum; Dr. Darren Ranco, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and member of the Penobscot Tribe

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/12/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Topic: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has gone after tens of thousands of people who it alleges have illegally downloaded music in violation of copyright laws. Some of those people are fighting back, and winning. Now the RIAA is sometimes finding itself a defendant in court cases. We take a look at what is going on, and why things are not going so
smoothly for the RIAA these days as they once were.

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