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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Free speech feels Net copyright chill
By Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com, October 24, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963122.html?tag=lh

"Rick Sanchez thought the bright folks at Mensa International would
agree that his Pets or Food Web site was a joke."
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Adobe to Support Digital Signatures
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Findlaw.com-AP
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/10-21-2002/20021021114503_18.html

" Adobe Systems Inc. has long offered its Acrobat Reader software for
free, a calculated move that has helped make its Portable Document
Format a de facto standard on the Internet."
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Some College Radio Stations Struggle to Determine Payments Owed for
Webcasting
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com, October 23, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002102301t.htm

"The organization collecting royalty payments from Webcasters reports
that many radio stations, including some college stations, have made
their first royalty payments on time. But others haven't paid because
they are having trouble figuring out how much they owe."
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Record Companies Should Learn to Profit From File Sharing, Conference
Speakers Say
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com, October 22, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002102201t.htm

"The recording industry should learn to live with and profit from file
sharing, instead of fighting it, representatives of songwriters and
technology companies said Monday at a conference on copyright law."
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P2P hacking bill may be amended
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, October 23, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963087.html

"A proposal to let copyright owners hack into and disrupt peer-to-peer
networks will be revised, a congressional aide said Wednesday."