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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Some Like It Hot
Wired.com, 
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/lessig.html

"OK, P2P is "piracy." But so was the birth of Hollywood, radio, cable
TV, and (yes) the music industry.If piracy means using the creative
property of others without their permission, then the history of the
content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of big
media today - film, music, radio, and cable TV - was born of a kind of
piracy."
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How I Lost the Big One: When Eric Eldred's crusade to save the public
domain reached the Supreme Court, it needed the help of a lawyer, not a
scholar.
By Lawrence Lessig, Legalaffairs.org
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_lessig_marapr04.html

"IT IS OVER A YEAR LATER AS I WRITE THESE WORDS. It is still
astonishingly hard. If you know anything at all about this story, you
know that we lost the appeal. And if you know something more than just
the minimum, you probably think there was no way this case could have
been won."
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Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine
By Kim Zetter, Wired.com,
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62500,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

"Imagine doing a Google search for a phone number, weather report or
sports score. The results page would be filled with links to various
sources of information. But what if someone typed in keywords and no
results came back? That's the scenario critics are painting of a new
bill wending its way through Congress that would let certain companies
own facts, and exact a fee to access them."
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Employees Still Swapping Files at Work-Survey
By Reuters.com, Wed Mar 3, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=4492307

"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Employees are still swapping music and other
files on peer-to-peer applications at work despite the legal threat from
the record industry, a survey released on Wednesday said."
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File-swap 'killer' grabs attention
By John Borland, CNET News.com, March 3, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5168505.html

"A new political battle is brewing over Net music swapping, focusing on
a company that claims to be able to automatically identify copyrighted
songs on networks like Kazaa and to block illegal downloads."
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METI to require firms to ensure customer data is kept safe
By Yomiuri Shimbun, The Daily Yomiuri Online, March 3, 2004
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040303wo05.htm

"The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry will require Internet service
providers and others to appoint managers responsible for the security of
customers' personal data, under a draft guideline compiled by METI."
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Recording companies launch copyright campaign against Chinese karaoke
bars 
Mar. 03, 2004
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/technology/8096891.htm

"BEIJING (AP) - Recording companies including Time Warner and EMI are
launching a campaign to force thousands of Chinese karaoke bars to start
paying for the tunes their patrons croon to, a lawyer for the companies
said Wednesday."
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/03/content_311432.htm
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DVD copy software maker launches 'fair use' campaign
By Sam Varghese, Theage.com, March 3, 2004
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/03/1078191366194.html

"The software company 321 Studios, whose DVD copying products DVD Copy
Plus and DVD-X COPY were ordered to be withdrawn by a US federal judge
last month, has launched a "Fight for Fair Use Week" from March 1 to
March 5."