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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Justice O'Connor Stays California Ruling in Former Student's Encryption
Case
By VINCENT KIERNAN, Chronicle.com, January 2, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003010201t.htm

"A U.S. Supreme Court justice has temporarily blocked a lower court's
ruling in favor of a former computer-engineering student at Purdue
University who published online a program that unscrambles encrypted
DVD's."
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MIT Launches Digital Repository
BY InfoBits,  Issue 54, December 2002,  ISSN 1521-9275
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitdec02.html#2
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Journal Boycott Group Announces Its New Public Journals
By InfoBits,  Issue 54, December 2002, ISSN 1521-9275
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitdec02.html#4
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DMCA: Dow What It Wants to Do
By Michelle Delio, WiredNews.com, Dec. 31, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

"Digital Millennium Copyright Act charges may force an independent
Internet service provider and its controversial clients offline next
month.
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Author's suit claims copyright has expired on Peter Pan
By IAN STEWART, Associated Press/Yahoo.com, Dec 31, 2002
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=500&ncid=500&e=6&u=/ap/20021231/ap_wo_en_en/na_a_e_bks_us_peter_pan_lawsuit_1

"Canadian author Emily Somma has filed suit in San Francisco claiming
the characters in "Peter
Pan," including Tinker Bell, Wendy and Captain Hook, are now in the
public domain and no longer protected by a copyright awarded in 1929."