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Programmers enroll in political training
By Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com, June 10, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-934543.html

STANFORD, Calif.--It's not every computer science class that opens with
a poem. 
"I want to read this book I bought, 
     but people tell me I ought not. 
     They say I will be locked away 
     because of the D-M-C-A."
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Linking, a fundamental premise of the Web, is challenged
By ANICK JESDANU, SilliconValley.com, Jun. 09, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3435606.htm

"Nicolai Lassen considers linking such a fundamental element of the
World Wide Web that he sees nothing wrong with creating a service around
linking to news articles at more than 3,000 other sites."
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From: Tech Law Journal
http://www.techlawjournal.com/alert/subscriptions.asp
Tuesday. 2:00 PM. There will be a press conference to release a report
titled International Music Piracy Report 2002. For more information,
contact Amanda Collins at 202 857-9625 or acollins @riaa.org. Location:
National Press Club, Murrow Room, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor.
http://npc.press.org/programs/index.shtml
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Thursday, June 13 2002, 2:30 PM. The House Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property will
hold an oversight hearing on titled Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel
Structure and Process. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.
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Digital Copy Protection: Mandate It? Ban It? Or Let the Market Decide?
http://www.cato.org/events/020612pf.html

POLICY FORUM
Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:00 a.m. (Luncheon to follow)

Featuring Rick Lane, News Corporation; Jonathan Potter, Digital Media
Association; Sarah B. Deutsch, Verizon; Stewart Verdery, Vivendi
Universal; and Jonathan Zuck, Association for Competitive Technology.

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Canada makes little headway against piracy: Study
By JACK KAPICA, Globe and Mail.com and Reuters, June 10
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/D,D,B/20020610/gtpiracy?tf=tgam%252Frealtime%252Ffullstory_Tech.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=gtpiracy&date=20020610&archive=RTGAM&site=Technology

"The article concludes: "North America, where the [software] copyright
infringement laws are toughest and awareness is the highest, saw piracy
increase the least. North America has the lowest regional rate in the
world, the alliance said."
Contributed by listmember: Stephen Davies
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Terra Lycos cues up Net music service
By Reuters,  June 10, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-934817.html

"Terra Lycos said it partnered with Listen.com to create the new Web
service, Lycos Rhapsody, which will offer access to more than 10,000
albums. The service does not let users download the music or record it
on CDs, but plans to offer that capability later."
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Piracy:

Record industry turns tables on music pirates
By James Middleton, Vnunet.com,  [11-06-2002]
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1132503

"Users of music share programs such as Audiogalaxy are beginning to
suspect that the record industry might be using their own tools against
them, following a flood of bogus releases onto the networks.
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Software piracy on the rise, says BSA
By Jonathan Collins in New York, Vnunet.com, [11-06-2002]
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1132497

"Watchdog warns that 40 per cent of business software is pirated The use
of illegal software by businesses around the globe rose for the second
consecutive year in 2001, according to the Business Software Alliance
(BSA)."
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Empty pockets make software pirates
By David Becker, CNET News.com, June 10, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-934629.html
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Webscaters win one battle in war over internet radio
By Richard Fusco, Europemedia.net, 11/06/2002
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10902

"As the webcasting industry waits for the US Librarian of Congress's
decision on internet radio royalty rates, there are some signs that
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is looking to
significantly change its original proposal to the benefit of
webcasters."
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OSS at ALA Annual Conference

Fri 14th,  9:00-5:30  Preconference:Working with Open Source Software

Sat 15th,  2:00-4:00  Open Source Systems IG (Business Meeting)

Sun 16th, 10:30-12:00 Major Open Source WEB Finding Tools and Digital
                      Library Systems for Librarians

Sun 16th,  1:30-3:30  Automate your Library for Under $1000

Mon 17th, 8:30-10:00  Building the My Portal Experience:
                      User-Customized Interfaces
>From Gordon Paynter