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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Recording Industry Soldiers On Against Illegal
Downloading
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, New York Times, April 17, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/17/opinion/17SAT3.html?ex=1082779200&en=bb386d4d9ffd733e&ei=5062
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"In the past few weeks there have been some mixed developments in the
recording industry's battle against illegal file sharing. On the legal
front, the industry began a new round of international lawsuits against
foreign file sharers. A misguided new bill authorizing civil charges in
file-sharing cases is making its way through the Senate, and a bill
criminalizing copyright violations over peer-to-peer networks has been
passed out of committee in the House."
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COMMENTARY: Confessions of a copyright warrior: The Bono factor: Is a
dead musician's legacy interfering with free speech?
By David Kipen, SF Chronicle Book Critic, April 18, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/18/LVGDQ643PU1.DTL

"For a long time, I meant to write a time-travel story about a guy who
worked for a movie company. His job would be to read, every day from
cover to cover, the morning paper from exactly 75 years before. Because
most material used to pass into the public domain after 75 years,
anything our hero read would be newly fair game to adapt into a movie."
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Technology briefs: Corbis goes after copyright violators
18 April 2004
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Technology/03TechTECH02041804.htm

"NEW YORK -- The photo agency owned by Bill Gates is getting more
aggressive in using technology to go after copyright violators. Corbis
Corp., which owns more than 3 million photographs, hides a digital
watermark in images it disseminates online so the company can detect if
someone is using a Corbis picture without paying licensing fees."
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CRIA Appeals Court's Decision To Protect Downloading Pirates
By: ChartAttack.com Staff, Chartattack.com,  April 14, 2004
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/04/1402.cfm

"The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) are heading back to
court. Two weeks after a Canadian federal court ruled that downloading
music was not an infringement on current copyright law, CRIA have
gathered their lawyers and are preparing for their next fight."
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Copyright a dead issue for Norsewear artist
By Hawkes Bay Today, April 20 2004
http://www.mytown.co.nz/story/mytstorydisplay.cfm?thecity=hawkesbay&thepage=news&storyID=3560709&type=nzh

"The company which manages the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen brand has
decided not to take action over the use of the twins' images in a recent
Norsewear Art Award winning painting."
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Global P2P jihad stumbles
By Datamonitor,The Register, Friday 16th April 2004
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/riaa_crusade/

"The legal debate surrounding peer-to-peer file-swapping sites has
shifted up a gear in the past few months, beginning with the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA) filing hundreds of lawsuits
against serial downloaders, who they claim are costing the industry
millions. But the crusade against copyright infringement has met more
than a few stumbling blocks."