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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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High court weighs best copyright length
By Warren Richey, ChristianScienceMonitor/Findlaw.com, November 12, 2002
http://news.findlaw.com/csmonitor/s/20021112/12nov2002095138.html

" Back when the US Constitution was still a work in progress, the
framers of that document recognized the importance of encouraging
innovative thought."
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Congress Gives Webcasters a Break
By Associated Press, WiredNews.com, Nov. 15, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56420,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

"Smaller Internet music broadcasters will be allowed to pay lower
copyright royalty fees than they do now under legislation Congress
passed on Friday.
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Webcasting Compromise Clears Congress
By David McGuire, washingtonpost.com , November 15, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59427-2002Nov15.html

"A bill designed to resolve a longstanding dispute over how much
Internet radio stations should pay for the privilege of"webcasting"
copyrighted music is heading to  the White House after receiving
late-night approval in Congress."
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Conflict over copyright extension will only deepen
By Thomas F. Holt Jr., BostonGlobe.com, 11/17/2002
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/321/business/Conflict_over_copyright_extension_will_only_deepen+.shtml

"The US Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that could
decide the future of copyright protection for cultural works ranging
from Disney's Mickey Mouse to Gershwin's melodies."
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Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright
by Carol Ebbinghouse o Library Director, Western State University
College of Law, InforToday.com/Vol 10 No.10,  Nov/Dec 2002
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov02/ebbinghouse2.htm

"If you wanted to give something away, you gave it away. You could even
write a little note saying something like, "May be copied with
attribution." In the age of digital versions of creations, it has become
nearly impossible to name something that can't be copied off the
Internet - stories, poems, drawings, photographs, movies, music, etc. -"
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>From Tech Law Journal: http://www.techlawjournal.com/welcome.htm
Thursday, November 21
3:00 PM. Uma Suthersanen will speak on "Copyright and Human Rights in
Europe". She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queen Mary Intellectual
Property Research Institute in London. For more information, contact
Robert Brauneis at rbraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 202 994-6138. Location:
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor of Burns, George Washington
University Law School, 2000 H Street, NW.
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