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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Campus: IT cracks down on Web piracy
IT has dealt with 191 cases of copyright violations on campus this year.
By Eric Miller, Daily Staff Writer, April 19, 2004
http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/19/4085dba1e5e47

"The controversy over Internet file-sharing and copyright infringement
continues to affect young adults on a daily basis, and OU students are
no exception."
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Dutch student residences raided by anti-piracy squad
by Joe Figueiredo, dmeurope.com, 22/04/2004
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1583

"In an action against the unlawful use and distribution of computer
software, the Dutch anti-piracy squad has raided student residences at
several Dutch universities, including Enschede, Utrecht, Delft and
Groningen."
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(I believe that the validity of this story is being questioned
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/04/22/1223203.shtml?tid=123&tid=141&tid=146&tid=188&tid=99
-Listmanager)
Schools raided by FBI in pirating crackdown
By Billy House, Monica Mendoza and Brent Whiting, The Arizona Republic,
Apr. 21, 2004
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0421dvraid-ON.html

"Federal agents in Phoenix and elsewhere in the country raided schools
and other targets in a national crackdown on pirated music CDs and
movies."
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China to hit copyright piracy
By Neil King, Wall St Journal, Apr 23
http://afr.com/articles/2004/04/22/1082616256497.html

"China agreed during high-level talks in Washington to crack down on the
rampant piracy of US goods and to ease the entry of imported products."
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Duma adopts amendments to copyright law
By Itar-Tass ,21.04.2004
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=725118

"MOSCOW-  Deputies of the State Duma lower house of Russia's parliament
on Wednesday adopted in the second reading amendments to the Law on
Copyright and Allied Rights in order to counteract intellectual piracy
in Russia."
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>From BNA:
COURT UPHOLDS ENFORCEABILITY OF CLICKWRAP AGREEMENT
BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports on I-Sys Inc. v.
Softwares Inc., a recent federal court case from Minnesota in which the
court ruled that acceptance by clickthrough of the terms of a software
license is binding notwithstanding defendants' argument that they gave
consent under protest. The court also rejected arguments that the
licensee was unaware of the earlier, shrinkwrap version of the licenses
and thus was not bound by them, reasoning that defendants knew of the
existence of the licenses based on several references to them contained
in the software development agreements and related invoices. 
Article at
<http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/is/a0a8j5y3d9>
For a free trial to source of this story, visit
http://www.bna.com/products/ip/eplr.htm
Decision at
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D08MNXC/04-02605.PDF";
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CD levies could double, group warns
By JACK KAPICA, Globe and Mail , Apr. 21, 2004
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040421.gtccfda0421/BNStory/Technology/

"The levies imposed on blank digital media to compensate recording
artists for acts of piracy could double if Canada ratifies an
international copyright treaty, a coalition of interested industries
warned today."
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United Kingdom: A Copyright Strategy for your Business: Important
Lessons from the Music Industry
by Hana Ferraris, Mondaq.com, 20 April 2004
http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_25565
(Registration Required)

"Internet piracy is a major threat to all businesses whose success
depends on controlling copyright works...."
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321 Studios Slammed on Service
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Apr. 20, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63154,00.html

"ST. LOUIS -- The Better Business Bureau warned consumers Tuesday about
the maker of DVD-copying software that is being challenged by Hollywood
on copyright grounds. The bureau urged consumers "to use caution" when
buying DVD backup, repair and recovery software from 321 Studios."
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How To Copyright Your Website And Ebooks
By John Lynch, Webpronews
http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/contentandcopywriting/wpn-6-20040419HowtoCopyrightyourWebsiteandEbooks.html

"There is a lot of information theft on the Internet. Unscrupulous
people think they have the right to copy your information and put it on
their website or information product. To protect yourself against this
theft you should copyright all your work."
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Music Biz Kills Amnesty Program
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Apr. 19, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63133,00.html/wn_ascii

LOS ANGELES -- The music industry's trade group has ended a program that
offered to prevent people from being sued by recording companies if the
downloaders admitted to illegally sharing music online, according to
court documents."
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EU tackles copyright societies
By Anna McLauchlin, eupolitix.com, 19 Apr 2004
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200404/b4a84f6f-28eb-495d-a8d1-55c97ab3ac5d.htm

"Societies that collect copyright fees could be the target of new EU
law, the European Commission announced on Monday. Brussels will look at
whether EU legislation could increase confidence in societies like the
Performing Right Society in the UK or the Societ` Italiana degli Autori
ed Editori in Italy."
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Copyright rights management: new EU law?
By Out-law.com, 19/04/2004
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=copyrightrightsman1082374405&area=news

"Copyright exploitation accounts for more than 5% of Community GDP,
according to the European Commission, which today advocated a new law on
the collective management of rights, and particularly on the governance
of collecting societies."
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Protection of Copyright and Adjacent Rights on the Net
By: Andrey Belousov, Computer Crime Research Center, April 19, 2004
http://www.crime-research.org/articles/Belousov0404

"Copyright Law guarantees certain exclusive rights to the owners of
intellectual property. Let's consider the most typical delusions about
copyrights on the Internet.- "There is no copyright on the Internet. I
may use all that I have found." It's not true. Copyright laws are
applied to the Internet too. If the author does not state that he allows
free use of his work, we must consider that there is no such permission
and copying of this work is prohibited."
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Entertainment Industry Takes Anti-Piracy Offensive to Campuses
By James Maguire, NewsFactor Network, April 19, 2004
http://cio-today.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Entertainment_Industry_Takes_P_P_Offensive_to_Campuses&story_id=23746&category=ecommerce

"The technology's method of "automating punishment" remains
questionable, especially since "innocent people can be improperly
sanctioned for their use," says Chris Hoofnagle, deputy counsel for the
Electronic Privacy Information Center. "When there is a problem, there
needs to be due process."
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Music industry stance an old, broken record
By Graeme Philipson, Theage.com, au, April 20, 2004
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/19/1082326133722.html

"If you ever needed evidence that the music industry is living a lie, it
came last month with two interesting pieces of information. One was the
release of sales figures that showed the sales of recorded music in
Australia was at an all-time high. The other was a report from two
respected US academics showing that downloading music from the internet
does not slow music sales and may even help them."
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Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers
By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, April 19, 2004
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5194341.html

"Hollywood is poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers,
with new technology that could make it easier to remove suspected
pirates from campus networks, CNET News.com has learned."
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