In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P
By Xeni Jardin  , Wired.com,  Mar. 26, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62830,00.html

"Congress appears to be preparing assaults against peer-to-peer
technology on multiple fronts. A draft bill recently circulated among
members of the House judiciary committee would make it much easier for
the Justice Department to pursue criminal prosecutions against file
sharers by lowering the burden of proof. The bill, obtained Thursday by
Wired News, also would seek penalties of fines and prison time of up to
ten years for file sharing."
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News: UK music industry warns file-sharers of legal action
Out-law.com, 26/03/2004
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=ukmusicindustrywa1080300484&area=news

"The British record industry is to begin a campaign using the instant
messaging functions of peer-to-peer services to warn those swapping
copyright-protected works that they are breaking UK copyright law and
risk being penalised."
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Get down: music pirates are sunk
By Adam Sherwin, Timesonline.co.uk.,  March 26, 2004
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7944-1052182,00.html

"Illegal downloaders face prosecution to head off a collapse in the
British record industry
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British Music Industry Takes Aim at Net Song Swappers
By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent, Reuters.com, Mar
25, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=4660335

"LONDON (Reuters) - The British music industry announced on Thursday it
will begin issuing legal warnings to the nation's most prolific online
song-swappers, its strongest declaration yet that lawsuits are on the
way."
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Reuters Uses Search Against Copyright Abuse
By Sean Michael Kerner, Internetnews.com,  March 24, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3330381

"At a time of heightened awareness of corporate intellectual property,
news service Reuters announced said it will use Fast Search & Transfer's
(FAST) software to track copyright violations of its content. Terms of
the deal were not disclosed."
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New RIAA file-swapping suits filed
By John Borland, CNET News.com. March 23, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5177933.html

"The Recording Industry Association of America stepped up the pace of
its lawsuits against music swappers again, with a renewed focus on
university students."
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Valenti to retire as head of top Hollywood trade group
By AP, SiliconValley.com, Mar. 23, 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8257608.htm

" Jack Valenti, who oversaw the creation of Hollywood's movie-ratings
system in the 1960s, said Tuesday he will step down as head of the
Motion Picture Association of America, possibly within three months."
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Kazaa case: access to seized materials delayed
By Sam Varghese, SMH,  March 24, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/24/1079939686550.html

"The music industry will be unable to examine material seized during
February raids at the premises of Sharman Networks, owner of the Kazaa
peer-to-peer software, for several more weeks."
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NBI raids Cyber City for 'copyright violation'
By Minerva Zamora-Arceo, March 25, 2004
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2004/03/25/nbi.raids.cyber.city.for.copyright.violation..html

"CLARK ECOZONE -- The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Wednesday
swooped down on one of the largest and fastest-growing IT locators in
Clark, Cyber City Teleservices Inc. and confiscated articles or
paraphernalia allegedly used in the illegal reproduction of Adobe
Systems softwares."
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Collection of National Copyright Laws Now Online 
UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/
Francia Ong > Servicios @@
Noticia n:: 20769
Agencia emisora: jue 25 Mar 2004
http://www.noticias.info/Asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=20769&src=0

"Full texts of national copyright and related rights legislation of
UNESCO Member States can now be accessed on the website of UNESCO's
Culture Sector. The collection currently comprises about 100 laws and is
constantly being updated and completed."
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A pirate's life for me
BY A.S. HAMRAH, Newsday.com, March 28, 2004
http://www.nynewsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkrev3723760mar28,0,905017.story?coll=nyc-bookreview-headlines

"FREE CULTURE: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down
Culture and Control Creativity, by Lawrence Lessig. Penguin Press, 345
pp., $24.95"
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FREE CULTURE RELEASED UNDER CC LICENSE
Free Culture, the latest book from Professor Lawrence Lessig, released
yesterday by Penguin Press, has been made available under a Creative
Commons license.
<http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/>