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Music Industry to Include FBI's Logo in CD Packaging
By Los Angeles Times , 1/19/2004
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-music16jan16,1,4433462.story
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"The music industry has won permission to include the FBI's logo in CD
packaging as a warning against unauthorized copying, sources said.
Record labels want to use the logo the way it is used by movie studios,
which include an on-screen warning on home videos and DVDs."
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Music Fans Find Online Jukebox Half-Empty

By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post.com, January 19, 2004; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27954-2004Jan18.html?referrer=email

"The world's largest music company had been hectoring rock singer Tom
Petty since last summer."
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Stealing copyright privileges
By Amnon Rubinstein, haaretz.com
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/384031.html

"At first, it seems to be merely a technical-legal matter: but in actual
fact, it's a substantive issue that will exert a pernicious influence on
Israeli culture."
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Music Exec Says 'Hey Ya!' to Music Downloads
By Bernhard Warner, Findlaw.com, Jan. 15, 2004
http://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20040115/mediamusicdownloadsdc.html

" (London) A top music executive on Thursday said strong music download
sales over Christmas from artists like chart-topping hip-hop Outkast
with their hit "Hey Ya!" have set the beleaguered industry up for a
promising year."
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Report: Illegal Music Downloading Climbs
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Jan. 15, 2004
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/1-15-2004/20040115164503_36.html

"The number of people downloading music illegally surged a month after
recording companies began suing hundreds of music fans, a marketing
research firm said Thursday."
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Download sites find protection in Canada: Music downloaded from the
Internet legal north of the border
By OfficialSpin, 19/01/04 
http://www.officialspin.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=1223

"Ottawa, Ontario -- According to Smart & Biggar, the Copyright Board of
Canada handed down a very significant decision on the controversial
topic of the legality of downloading and uploading music from the
Internet in Canada."
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ISPs Ignore RIAA's New P2P Ploy
By Roy Mark, Internetnews.com, January 16, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3300211

"After an appeals court ruled that Internet service providers (ISPs) do
not have to hand over names of suspected music pirates to the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA), ISPs are showing no interest in
the RIAA's latest effort to enlist them in its fight against music
piracy.
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Study: Music Piracy Rising
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Jan. 16, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61943,00.html/wn_ascii

"The number of people downloading music illegally surged a month after
recording companies began suing hundreds of music fans, a marketing
research firm said Thursday."
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