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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Girding Against the Copyright Mob
By Brad King, WiredNews.com, Aug. 2, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,54270,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

"Content companies and consumer advocates are waging a vicious battle in
Washington, with the future of consumer rights -- and what you can do
with products you have purchased -- at stake.
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Reclaiming the Commons
David Bollier, BostonReview.com, Summer 2002
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html

"Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment."
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New Deomocracy Forum, Ruled by the Market?
With David Bollier and Respondents, Boston Review.com, Summer 2002
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html#Market

"David bollier debates the privatization of public goods"
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LOCALLY CONTROLLED SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING VIA THE INTERNET:
The Guild Model
By ROB KLING, LISA SPECTOR, and GEOFF McKIM
The Journal of Electronic Publishing,  August, 2002   Volume 8, Issue 1
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/08-01/kling.html
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Fair or Foul Way to Fight Pirates?
Tech Firms and Hollywood Divided Over Proposed Bill to Stop Piracy
By Peter Barnes, ABCNews/Tech Live Washington, D.C., July 31 2002
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_piracybill020731.html

"Observers say chances are remote that the so-called Peer to Peer Piracy
Prevention Act will pass Congress. The proposal represents the latest
round in the battle between content companies and technology firms over
how to control illegal copying and distribution of copyright material on
the Web."