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LOYOLA HITS SOUR NOTE IN NAMING STUDENTS IN NET MUSIC CASE
By Anthony D'Amato, Northwestern Law News/Chicago Sun-Times, July 28,
2003
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/communicate/newspages/article_full.cfm?eventid=920&pagetype='faculty_news

"Loyola University Chicago has turned over the names of two students
linked to an Internet address listed in a subpoena that was served on
the university by the music recording industry. The reaction of the
student body was that their privacy has been invaded."
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In DSpace, Ideas Are Forever
By VIVIEN MARX, Newyorktimes.com, August 3, 2003
(Registration Required)

"The libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are
earnestly bookish (2.6 million volumes and 17,000 journals) but
increasingly digital (275 databases and 3,800 electronic journals). And
just as e-mail dealt a blow to snail mail, digital archives are
retooling scholarly exchange."
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Study: U.S. swappers shrug off copyrights
By Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com, August 1, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5058933.html

"More than two-thirds of Americans who swap songs online don't care
whether the music is copyrighted, according to a study, despite the
record industry's antipiracy crackdown."
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The Pew Internet and American Life Project Study
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=96
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Colleges explore legal Net music setups
By John Borland, CNET News.com, August 1, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5059030.html

"Universities are considering ways to bring legal Internet jukeboxes to
dorm rooms, including entering deals with commercial service providers
that would see online music charges included alongside tuition fees or
picked up by the schools themselves."
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Senator Wants Answers From RIAA
By Katie Dean , Wirednews.com, Aug. 01, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59862,00.html/wn_ascii

"Sen. Norm Coleman is concerned the recording industry is taking an
extreme approach in its attempt to quash online file trading and may
hurt innocent people in the process. On Thursday, Coleman (R-Minn.),
chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, asked
the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, to provide
detailed information about the more than 900 subpoenas it has issued so
far."
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One ISP Refuses to Yield
By Associated Press, Wirednews.com, Jul. 31, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59844,00.html/wn_ascii

"SBC Communications has joined a battle with the recording industry in a
lawsuit that questions the constitutionality of the industry's effort to
track online music swappers."