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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Greece:
Paper to pay for copyright
Ekathimerini.com
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100011_05/07/2002_18356

Companies in the paper market are now protesting that nowhere else in
Europe has an intellectual property tax been slapped on paper"
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>From US Copyright Office:
Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights and Decision of the
Librarian of Congress on Rates and Terms for Webcasting and Ephemeral
Recordings Posted to Website
http://http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcast_regs.html
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Copyright fight comes to an end
By Lisa M. Bowman,CNET News.com, July 3, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941685.html

Hacker publication 2600 magazine won't appeal a ruling prohibiting it
from linking to code that can crack copy protections on DVDs, bringing a
closely watched digital copyright fight with Hollywood to an end
Wednesday."
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Statement from 2600 Magazine:
http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1233
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Working document on functioning of the Safe
Harbor Agreement
Documents adopted by the Data Protection Working Party, 2 July 2002
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/dataprot/wpdocs/index.htm

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Piracy:

Music Industry to Sue Individuals for File-Sharing
The Wall Street Journal, July 3 2002
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025639431553502280,00.html
(paid subscription required)

" Major music companies are preparing to mount a broad new attack on
unauthorized online song-swapping. The campaign would include suits
against individuals who are offering the largest troves of songs on
peer-to-peer services."
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More Coverage:
File-Trading Furor Heats Up
By Brad King, Wired News.com
http://go.hotwired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,53662,00.html/wn_ascii
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South Africa cracks down on DVD piracy
By Andrew Worsdale, Screendaily.com, 03 July 2002
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=8812

"A passenger carrying 3,800 pirate DVDs, including 1,400 copies of Men
In Black II was intercepted at Johannesburg International airport over
the weekend by South Africa's Federation against Copyright Theft, in its
latest drive to stem the counterfeiting market which is costing the
industry some $6.1m per year."
(Contributed by Stephen Davies)
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Net radio raises a pirate flag
By John Borland, CNET News.com, July 3, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941392.html

"The 39-year-old McLeod, a game designer who works out of his home in
England, is the author of Streamer, a new software program designed to
let people create online radio stations that are difficult for the
authorities to trace."
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California couple charged with software piracy
Associated Press, USAToday.com, 07/05/2002
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/07/05/software-piracy.htm

"Mirza Ali, 54, and Sameena Ali, 48, husband-and-wife owners of a
Fremont company called Samtech Research, are accused of buying up
companies licensed to resell Microsoft products at discounts to schools
and selling the products instead to some dealers who were also arrested
for software piracy."