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Verizon appeals RIAA subpoena win
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, January 30, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982809.html

"Verizon Communications is asking an appeals court to block a court
order that would reveal the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate
to the music industry."
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SPARC IR Guide Now Available Online
>From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
December 2002-January 2003
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html

"SPARC has produced and is distributing at no charge the new "SPARC
Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide," a manual detailing
the issues that institutions and consortia need to address in
implementing an institutional repository.  The Web-based publication is
available immediately at http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html and
may be printed out and distributed freely."
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>From U.S. Copyright Office
NewsNet, January 27, 2003, Issue 185
http://www.copyright.gov/

February 19: Deadline for the second round of comments in the Copyright
Office triennial rulemaking proceeding on exemptions from the
prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control
access to copyrighted works. Those who oppose or support any exemptions
proposed in the initial comments will have the opportunity to respond to
the proposals made in the initial comments and to provide factual
information and legal argument addressing whether a proposed exemption
should be adopted. (67 FR 63578)
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html
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>From Tech Law Journal- http://www.techlawjournal.com/welcome.htm

12:15 PM. The FCBA's Online Communications Committee will host a brown
bag lunch. The topic will be "Digital Rights Management & Development".
For more information, contact Aileen Pisciotta at
apisciotta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx RSVP to bviera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Location:
Cole, Raywid & Braverman, 1919 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 200.
Washington DC
http://www.fcba.org/
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Music file-sharing on Internet illegal, court rules
JapanToday.com,  January 30, 2003 

"TOKYO - The Tokyo District Court said in an interim ruling Wednesday
that an online music file-sharing service by MMO Japan Ltd has violated
the Copyright Law, supporting the Japanese music industry's stance."
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Internet cafe chain to appeal copyright ruling
By AP, Siliconvalley.com, Jan. 29, 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5057985.htm

"The head of an Internet cafe chain pledged Wednesday to appeal a
judge's ruling that the company broke copyright law by letting customers
copy music from the Internet."
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6 Institutions Will Help Fine-Tune a Popular New Archiving Program
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com, January 30, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003013001t.htm

"Six major research universities announced this week that they are
working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fine-tune an
MIT program for archiving scholarly works called DSpace, which has
become wildly popular in academe in just a few months."
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