In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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321 Studios Forges Ahead
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Feb. 23, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62397,00.html

"NEW YORK -- The maker of DVD-duplication software ruled in violation of
copyright law is nevertheless pledging to keep selling it -- but without
a built-in tool for descrambling movies."
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Napster: 5 million songs sold
By John Borland, CNET News.com February 23, 2004
http://news.com.com/2110-1027-5163722.html

"Napster, the digital song store and subscription service launched by
Roxio in late October, said Monday that it passed the 5 million mark in
online song sales. Although that keeps it ahead of other only-on-PC
services' announced sales figures, it remains far behind Apple
Computer's iTunes, which serves both PCs and Macintosh computers."
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Download lawsuits scare some, but song trading still popular
By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press, 2/20/2004
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/music/2004-02-20-song-swaps_x.htm

"PHILADELPHIA - Greg Kullberg first started downloading free music off
the Internet as a college freshman in 1996. He stopped - mostly - after
the music industry started filing lawsuits against file-sharers last
year."
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Copyright Clearance Center Adds Elsevier to Its Digital Licensing
Offerings
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Feb. 23, 2004--
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20040223005147&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view

"Copyright Clearance Center Adds World's Largest Scientific, Technical
and Medical Publisher to Growing Digital Repertory"
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Copy, right?
By Adam Turner, February 24, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/23/1077497503357.html

"Copyright and the right to copy are the biggest hurdles facing the
digital media revolution. If it can be expressed in 1s and 0s it can be
copied - the music industry's woes are just the tip of the iceberg. The
technology for stealing everything from pay TV and movies to books,
music, software and computer games is now within reach of the masses.
The movie industry faces an onslaught as the price of DVD burners
plummets and it is about to lose one of its advantages over the music
industry."
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