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Comments on Rulemaking on Exemptions on Anticirumvention
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/comments/index.html
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Critics Weigh In on Copyright Act
By Joanna Glasner, WiredNews.com,
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56963,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

"A federal agency's request for commentary on a controversial digital
copyright law drew a boatload of criticism from respondents who asked
for new limitations on the far-reaching statute."
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College Groups Challenge Copyright Office on Exceptions to
Digital-Copyright Law
By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Chronicle.com, December 20, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002122001t.htm

"College groups are again asking the U.S. Copyright Office to allow
scholars to bypass technological devices that restrict electronic access
to copyrighted works."
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Studios See Red Over DVD Burning
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Dec. 20, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56960,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

" Hollywood fought back against a maker of DVD movie-copying software,
countersuing the company for allegedly trafficking the tools of digital
theft."
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Deadline Passes for European Digital Copyright Law
By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent, Reuter.com,
December 23, 2002
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=1951346

"A deadline for adopting a new EU law on copyright protection has passed
with just two member countries signing up, dealing a blow to media and
software companies beset by unauthorized duplication of their works
across the Internet."
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Sklyarov reflects on DMCA travails
By Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com, December 20, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978497.html

"Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov thinks it was unfair of prosecutors
to play his videotaped deposition at the ElcomSoft trial rather than
calling him to the stand."