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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key
Findings of the RoMEO Project
By Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, Steve Probets 
D-Lib Magazine,  September 2003, Volume 9 Number 9, ISSN 1082-9873

"Inspired by the Open Archives Initiative, the United Kingdom (UK) Joint
Information Systems committee (JISC) established the FAIR (Focus on
Access to Institutional Repositories)  programme in 2002. One of the
programme's objectives was to "explore the challenges associated with
disclosure and sharing [of content], including IPR and the role of
institutional repositories".
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Court scrutinizes P2P subpoena process
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, September 16, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5077240.html

"A federal appeals court on Tuesday scrutinized the details of a 1998
copyright law, wondering  whether it permits the wide-scale unmasking of
alleged peer-to-peer pirates by the music industry."
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Verizon, Record Companies Duel Over 'Net Piracy
By David McGuire, washingtonpost.com, September 16, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20565-2003Sep16.html?referrer=email
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Europe heading down DMCA route, warns think tank
ZDNet UK, 17th September 2003
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39116390,00.htm

"European nations are repeating the US' mistakes over the draconian
Digital Millenium Copyright Act in their implementation of the
equivalent EU law, according to a UK think tank"
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Coalition to counter entertainment-industry lobby
By JACK KAPICA,Globe and Mail Update, Sep. 16, 2003
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030916.gtcopyrightsep16/BNStory/Technology/

"A coalition of user and consumer interests has formed to counter
intense entertainment-industry lobbying of the federal government when
it begins to consider changes to the Copyright Act this fall."
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