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More 321 Studios news
By: DVD Digest on Apr 05, 2004
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/shownews.php?newsid=071

"More legal troubles for 321 Studios, the maker of the popular DVD X
Copy DVD backup software. Two Federal courts have now ruled against 321
Studios, and it could mean DVD X Copy being banned."
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Attorney Mike Godwin Answers 'Cyberlaw' Questions
by Roblimo, Slashdot.com, Monday April 05
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/04/05/1314228.shtml?tid=123&tid=126&tid=95&tid=99

"from the oldest-living-internet-lawyer-tells-all dept. In this Q & A
session, in which attorney Mike Godwin answers your questions, you'll
see talk about many topics that get chewed up on Slashdot over and over
again -- except this time the person speaking actually knows what he's
talking about."
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Reuters to go after infringers
By p2pnet.com, p2pnet.net News
http://p2pnet.net/story/1062

"Reuters says it's going to use real-time search and filter software
developed in Norway to find Internet sites which infringe Reuters
copyrights."
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Copyright, Ownership, and Truth in Data in the Electronic Age
By Poss et al. J Bone Joint Surg Am.2004;86: 669
http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/content/full/86/4/669

Newly published article.
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Copyright, a monopoly? Articles Of Law
By BHAG SINGH, the star.com,  April 6, 2004
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2004/4/6/features/7687749&sec=features

"COPYRIGHT is beginning to play a very important part in the daily lives
of individuals and organisations, both in their personal lives and in
the course of business and official dealings."
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Don't let file-swappers swamp copyright law
By /TPComment/Editorials, the globe and mail, April 2, 2004 - Page A18
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040402/EFILES02

"The Federal Court of Canada threw a wrench this week into the Canadian
Recording Industry Association's effort to safeguard the copyright in
recorded music. Mr. Justice Konrad von Finckenstein may well have been
right that the CRIA's evidence was weak."
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Canada praised for music swapping ruling Case labelled win for music
sharing Record industry vowing to appeal
By TYLER HAMILTON, the Totonto star,  Apr. 2, 2004
http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1080861010902&call_page=TS_Business&call_pageid=968350072197&call_pagepath=Business/News&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email

"The decision was Canadian, but the message had global reach.
..Peer-to-peer software companies, public interest groups, and Internet
service providers outside of Canada praised a federal court ruling
Wednesday that, for the time being, makes it legal in this country to
share copyrighted music over the Internet.
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IBM Moves to Toss SCO Copyright Claim
By Alexander Wolfe, Internet News,  March 31, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3333771

"Two days after The SCO Group (Quote, Chart) moved to split its Linux
lawsuit against IBM Corp. into two separate cases, IBM has fired back
with a motion asking the court to toss out SCO's claims of copyright
infringement."
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Three years in prison for file-sharing?
By Outlaw.com, 02/04/2004
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=threeyearsinpriso1080910707&area=news

"Those who share music and movies over P2P networks like Kazaa could
face a maximum three-year jail sentence under a proposed US law, the
Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, which took its first, tentative
steps towards the statute books on Wednesday.:
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Text of the bill (20-page PDF)
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/pdf/ne/2004/pdea2004.pdf
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'Free Culture': The Intellectual Imperialists
By ADAM COHEN, New York Times.com, April 4, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/review/04COHENT.html?ex=1081659600&en=2de5acccf85254dc&ei=5062
(Registration Required)

"A  few years ago, the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers sent a warning to a hardened group of intellectual property
thieves: the Girl Scouts. The day was over, Ascap notified them, when
young girls could expect to sing ''This Land Is Your Land'' and ''God
Bless America'' around the campfire without forking over royalties."
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Florida Court Sends RIAA Away
By Wired News Report , Apr. 01, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62915,00.html

"Record labels must file individual lawsuits against suspected file
sharers rather than lumping them together in a single suit, a federal
judge in Florida ruled Thursday."
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Maker of DVD-copying software appeals court rulings 
By Associated Press, Silliconvalley.com, Apr. 01, 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8332261.htm

"ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri maker of DVD-copying products said
Thursday that it has appealed a pair of federal court rulings that it
stop making and marketing its software."