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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Record Industry Has No Plan to Seek Names of Students Trading
Copyrighted Songs
By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Chronicle.com, January 29, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003012901t.htm

"In a case that campus-network administrators followed closely, the
recording industry won an important legal victory last week that will
help record companies ferret out music fans who illegally trade
copyrighted material."
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Letters, Salon.com Jan. 27, 2003
Enemies of copyright are just uncreative people who want good stuff for
free: Readers respond to Siva Vaidhyanathan's "After the Copyright
Smackdown: What Next?"
http://salon.com/tech/letters/2003/01/27/copyright/index.html
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After the copyright smackdown: What next?
Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert.
The fight has really only just begun.
By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Salon.com, Jan. 17, 2003  
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/17/copyright/index.html

"When the U.S. Supreme Court' ruled Wednesday that Congress was within
its constitutional bounds to extend the duration of all copyrights by 20
years -- up to 70 years beyond the life of the author and potentially
infinitely -- many saw the ruling as a knockout blow to the movement to
reform copyright."
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Kazaa strikes back at Hollywood, labels
By John Borland, CNET News.com January 27, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982344.html

"Sharman Networks, owner of the popular Kazaa file-swapping software,
has launched a legal counterstrike against the major record labels and
Hollywood studios, asserting that they have "obscenely" abused their
copyright powers."
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Counterclaims & Answer To Complaint
(MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/mgm/mgmshrmnt12703cc.pdf
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EasyNet cafe loses music dispute
By Bernhard WarnerYahoonews.com, January 28
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030128/80/dofad.html

" A High Court judge has found the EasyInternet Cafe chain guilty of
copyright infringement for allowing customers to download music from the
Internet and copy it onto a CD for five pounds.
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Perspective: The new jailbird jingle
By Declan McCullagh, Cnetnews.com, January 27, 2003
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-982121.html

"If you've ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted
files, chances are pretty good you're guilty of a federal felony."
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U.S. tightens net copyright
BY Simon Hayes, New Interactive, January 28, 2003
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5896759%5E15319,00.html

"UNITED States trade negotiators are pushing for Australia to sign up to
a tough new copyright regime that could hold internet service providers
liable for breaches."
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