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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Backup DVD Copies Legal Says Electronic Frontier Foundation: Asks Court
to OK 321 Studio's DVD X-Copy Software
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030314_321_studios_pr.php

"The movie studios on the other side of the 321 lawsuit claim that DVD
X-Copy -- and any hardware or software tools that would allow viewers to
back up or extract snippets from DVDs -- is an unlawful circumvention
device. The Northern District of California court, San Francisco
Division, will hear the case at 9:00 am on April 25, 2003."
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EFF brief in 321 Studios case:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030314_321_studios_brief.php
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Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in
the Digital Age
by Clifford A. Lynch, ARL Bimonthly Report 226, February 2003
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html

"In the fall of 2002, something extraordinary occurred in the continuing
networked information revolution, shifting the dynamic among
individually driven innovation, institutional progress, and the
evolution of disciplinary scholarly practices. The development of
institutional repositories emerged as a new strategy that allows
universities to apply serious, systematic leverage to accelerate changes
taking place in scholarship and scholarly communication, both moving
beyond their historic relatively passive role of supporting established
publishers in modernizing scholarly publishing through the licensing of
digital content, and also scaling up beyond ad-hoc alliances,
partnerships, and support arrangements with a few select faculty
pioneers exploring more transformative new uses of the digital medium."
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Music Group Sends Piracy Complaints to 300 Firms
By Ben Berkowitz, Reuters.com, March 17, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2395946

" The music industry's leading trade group has sent letters to 300 U.S.
companies complaining about alleged acts of piracy and copyright
infringement in their corporate computer networks and warning of
possible fines."