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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Music royalty ruling to be appealed
Associated Press, GlobeTechnology.com, Thursday, August 8
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20020808/gtcopy/Technology/techBN/

"Both sides in the dispute over Internet music royalties paid in the
United States said Wednesday they will appeal a recent U.S. federal
decision setting royalty rates for music broadcast over the Internet."
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Links to Appeals from Digital Media Association, www.digimedia.org
http://www.digmedia.org/webcasting/appeal.html
(Contributed by Stephen Davies)
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Webcast Royalty Proposal Draws Fire From All Sides
By David McGuire, washingtonpost.com, August 8, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56215-2002Aug7.html
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Sony develops new copyright protection technology
By Kuriko Miyake, IDG News Service/ITworld.com,  8/7/02
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2683/020807sonycopyright/

"Sony Corp. has unveiled digital rights management (DRM) technology that
can protect content for use on various types of devices and allows usage
conditions for content to be controlled by the distributor."
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UK: EasyInternetCafe faces fines over music burning
By Graeme Wearden, Yahoonews.com, August 8 2002
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020808/152/d6xrn.html

"EasyInternetCafe is fighting off an attempt to make it pay a six figure
penalty because it allowed customers to download copyright music from
the Internet and burn it onto CDs at its branches."
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Technology: Overseas-based Web sites make for difficult copyright
enforcement
By JON HEALEY, Los Angeles Times/NandoTimes.com, August 7, 2002 
http://www.nando.net/technology/story/491161p-3919652c.html

"Despite the music industry's intensifying battle against online piracy,
a new crop of Web sites are brazenly offering entire pirated CDs for
free downloading even before they are released. "