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7/12. The House Judiciary Committee  has scheduled a mark up of S 487,
the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, or TEACH Act,
for Wednesday, July 17.
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US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Schedule:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/schedule.htm
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S 487-
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00487:
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Springsteen Protects His New CD's Online in an Old-Fashioned Way
By CHRIS NELSON, New York Times.com, July 15, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15SPRI.html
(subscription required)

"While the music industry scrambles to keep albums off the Internet
before they reach stores, one highly successful artist has managed to
skirt online piracy with a surprisingly low-technology solution."
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Technology: Digital recording may turn off free TV, TBS chief says
By LYNN ELBER, NandoTimes.net, July 12, 2002
http://www.nando.net/technology/story/464583p-3714837c.html

" Television viewers could face paying for channels they now receive
free if digital video recorders kill commercials, said Jamie Kellner,
chairman of Turner Broadcasting System."
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Lawmakers: Keep your tunes to yourself
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, July 11, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943134.html?tag=fd_lede

"Legislators are readying a bill that could sharply limit Americans'
rights relating to copying music, taping TV shows, and transferring
files through the Internet."
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Tax authority to take over pirate tracing from copyright association
By Joe Figueiredo, Europemedia.net, 12/07/2002
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11487

"The Dutch tax authority's intelligence and tracing unit, FIOD-ECD, is
to take over the job of tracking and prosecuting software , music and CD
pirates on January 1 2003 from the copyright association, Buma/Stemra."