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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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>From Tech Law Journal:
House CIIP Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Piracy Deterrence and Education
Act

7/17. The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the
Internet, and Intellectual Property (CIIP) held a hearing on HR 2517,
the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003." This bill would
enhance the government's resources for prosecuting intellectual property
crimes, and involve the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and
Department of Justice (DOJ) in educating and warning the public
regarding internet based copyright infringement.
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HR 2517-
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:h.r.2517:
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) submitted a prepared statement:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/lofgren071703.htm
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Congress Considers Measures, Some of Them Drastic, to Curtail Illegal
File Sharing
By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Chronicle.com,  July 18, 2003
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/07/2003071801t.htm
(Subscription Required)

"A bill introduced on Wednesday in Congress to curtail online music and
video piracy would set jail terms of up to five years, accompanied by
fines of as much as $250,000, for uploading a single copyrighted work."
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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4876-2003Jul17.html?referrer=email
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,59654,00.html
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Deep links are legal in Germany. Official
By Drew Cullen, Theregister.com, 20/07/2003
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31838.html

"Deep-linking has won the legal thumbs-up in Germany.  The Germany
Federal Court of Justice ruled Friday, July 18, that Paperboy, an online
search engine, neither violated copyright nor competition law."
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P2P caching: Unsafe at any speed?
By Stefanie Olsen,  CNET News.com, July 18, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1027508.html

"Peer-to-peer traffic is one of the biggest headaches for Internet
service providers, but now a Swedish company says it has developed
technology that can help handle the load."
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Music Pirates, on the Run? Or Just on Vacation?
By Leslie Walker, Washingtonpost.com, July 20, 2003; Page F07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14531-2003Jul19.html?referrer=email

"The record industry turned up the volume last week in its campaign to
blast musical pirates off the Internet, and there was at least a hint of
retreat by file swappers."
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>From Greplaw.org
Lessig on Blogs, Eldred and his Audi TT
posted by mpawlo on Thursday July 17, @05:32PM from the brain-picking
dept.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/181226

"Professor Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is a famous character in the
international cyberlaw community. Professor Lessig has been involved in
a wide area of subjects, ranging from shrinkwrap-legislation (in the
early days) to ICANN, copyright and whether code is law. Greplaw has
picked Professor Lessig's brain for some updates on his most recent
endeavours."
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Taking the anarchists to task
By Sandy Starr, Opendemocracy.net, 17 - 7 - 2003
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-8-1364.jsp

"Irresponsible behaviour on peer-to-peer networks will never be
significant without intelligent public debate. 'Anarchy' on its own will
not achieve anything but cynicism and draconian reaction. As for
cultural diversity and 'world music', Sandy Starr argues that Siva
Vaidhyanathan is deaf to the 'celestial jukebox' that everyone can
share."
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