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Major Publishers Sue California College Bookstore Chain for Copyright
Infringement; Five Publishers File Lawsuit to Enforce Copyright Law 
By BUSINESS WIRE, January 26, 2004
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040126005049&newsLang=en

"DANVERS, Mass.--Five major publishers have filed a copyright
infringement suit against KB Books, a college bookstore chain in San
Diego, California. Harvard Business School Publishing, The New York
Times, Elsevier Inc., Pearson Education and John Wiley & Sons Inc.
allege that KB Books has routinely produced and sold coursepacks to
college students in the San Diego area without obtaining permission to
use the content from the publisher or Copyright Clearance Center, the
publishers' licensing agent."
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Globalization and women, copyright infringement in open source, and
other news from LinuxWorld
By Andy Oram, Permalink/Onlamp.com, Jan. 26, 2004 07:24 AM
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/4291

"LinuxWorld in January 2004 looked mostly like more of what was at last
year's LinuxWorlds. No radical departures; just more serious talk of
moving to the desktop, more and faster clusters, more products aimed at
ERM and other back office services, more advances in the tools available
to support Java."
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House Panel Sparks Database Controversy
By Roy Mark, internetnews.com, January 23, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3302931

"The House Judiciary Committee approved controversial legislation
Wednesday that extends protection for facts within databases which are
not currently eligible for copyright protection. "
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Copyright Office disregards protection for Web sites
By JOHN FARMER, LEADING-EDGE LAW, Jan 26, 2004
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031773298344&path=!business!columnists&s=1045855934868

"It's time for the U.S. Copyright Office to get with the late 1990s. The
World Wide Web has existed since 1991 and it's been legal to use it for
commercial purposes since 1996. Yet, the Copyright Office still has not
developed a reasonable way to register copyright ownership in a Web
site. "
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FM radio channels, music firms in copyright spat.
By Law Correspondent in New Delhi, Business-standard.com, January 26,
2004
http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=50&story=32951

"Four FM radio channels and scores of music companies have locked horns
in the Bombay and Delhi High Courts over an order of the copyright board
granting compulsory licences and fixing rates of royalty for
broadcasting sound recordings."
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Napster's Fanning has Snocap-ped vision
By John Borland and Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, January 23, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5146858.html

"Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning
and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture
called Snocap that is aimed at turning peer-to-peer networks into
dollars for record companies."
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Just Say 'No' to Record Labels
By Associated Press, Wirednews.com, Jan. 26, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62050,00.html

"CANNES, France -- Rock veterans Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno are
launching a provocative new musicians' alliance that would cut against
the industry grain by letting artists sell their music online instead of
only through record labels. never settle. They call the plan the
"Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists" -- or MUDDA, which
has a less lofty ring to it.
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Pepsi ads wink at music downloading
By Theresa Howard, USA TODAY, 1/23/2004
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-22-sb-pepsi_x.htm

"NEW YORK - A new sort of Pepsi Generation will get air time on the
Super Bowl: music downloaders."
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