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With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?
By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Newyorktimes.com, October 27, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/technology/27mit.html?ex=1382677200&en=b1631b2490aa11af&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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"Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
developed a system for sharing music within their campus community that
they say can avoid the copyright battles that have pitted the music
industry against many customers."
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Amazon Offer Worries Authors
By DAVID K. KIRKPATRICK, Wired.com, October 27, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/business/media/27amazon.html?ex=1382677200&en=f1d0237bff447eb6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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"The online retailer Amazon.com has introduced a feature that lets users
search for specific words or phrases in a database of the texts of
120,000 books, drawing skepticism from an authors' group. The feature,
called Search Inside the Book, lets anyone see a few pages of each book
in which the phrase appears. Registered users can see up to 20 pages of
a book at a time."
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E-Music Evolutions
By Cynthia L. Webb, washingtonpost.com, October 27, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23480-2003Oct27.html?referrer=email

"The Recording Industry Association of America's bid to stamp out music
piracy is paying off to some extent, with the launch of more
pay-for-download music services and an effort by a couple of brainy
college students to provide legal tunes to their classmates."
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The man who sold his brain
By Maggie Shiels, BBCnews.com, 27 October, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3217423.stm

"The idea is that Keats, 32, sells the rights to his brain, and with it
his original thoughts, for perpetuity..  Unfortunately, copyright laws
have watered down his plan for eternal life. Copyright in the US lasts
for the life of its creator, plus 70 years."
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The Great Library of Amazonia
By Gary Wolf , Wired.com, Oct. 23, 2003 (December issue, 11.12._
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60948,00.html/wn_ascii

"The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all
knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great
library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC. Through centuries of aggressive
acquisition, the librarians of Alexandria, Egypt, collected hundreds of
thousands of texts. None survives. During a final wave of destruction,
in AD 641, invaders fed the bound volumes and papyrus scrolls into the
furnaces of the public baths, where they are said to have burned for six
months. "The lesson," says Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet
Archive, "is to keep more than one copy."
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Copyright Catch-Up in E. Europe
By Roxanne Khamsi , Wired.com, Oct. 24, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60874,00.html/wn_ascii

"RIGA, Latvia -- Not only can music enthusiasts in the Baltic states buy
boatloads of pirated tunes on the streets, they pay taxes on the
prohibited material. And the governments of these former Soviet
republics are doing nothing to stamp out piracy of intellectual
property. In fact, they profit from it by imposing taxes on them, says
Elita Milgrave, chairwoman of the Latvian Music Producers Association.
By turning a blind eye to piracy, these governments could hold back the
region as it tries to integrate into the economies of the developed
world, particularly the European Union."
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