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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Hollywood, Silicon Valley near deal on digital TV
(Reuters), SilliconValley.com, Mon, Jun. 03, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3393613.htm

"Movie studios and consumer-electronics companies are close to reaching
an agreement that would protect digital-television broadcasts from being
copied and traded Napster-style over the Internet, negotiators said
Monday."
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Industry group pushes new anti-piracy standard for digital TV
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Mercury News/SilliconValley.com, Jun. 04, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3399916.htm

"A powerful alliance of technology and entertainment companies agreed
Tuesday to a standard for encrypting digital television broadcasts in
hopes of preventing the rampant copying of programs over the Internet."
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EFF Coverage:
http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/cat_bpdg_drafts.html
More News:
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023248936950557600,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60770-2002Jun4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/technology/05DIGI.html
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Digital Rights Put to Test
By Alex Daniels, Techway.com, June 4, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56664-2002Jun4.html?referer=email

"Music and movie moguls crowded a Capitol Hill reception last month to
toast the four-year-old Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the landmark
law guarding copyrighted material from digital pirates?So why were
Valenti and Rosen smiling? "
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E Is for E-Book Murder Mystery
By M.J. Rose, WiredNews.com,  June 4, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52929,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

"Is the book dead? That's the mystery that the trAce Online Writing
Centre's interactive collaborative Web drama, "M is for Nottingham?,"
hopes to solve."
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Gracenote finds its place on RealOne
By Gwendolyn Mariano, CNET News.com, June 4, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-932275.html

"RealNetworks said Tuesday that it would incorporate song-recognition
technology from Gracenote into its media player, renewing a deal between
the two companies."
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>From Tech Law Journal http://www.techlawjournal.com/welcome.htm

5/30. The U.S. Court of Appeals (7thCir) issued its opinion in Ty v.
Publications International, a copyright infringement and fair use case
involving Beanie Babies.
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Opinion:
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=01-3304