In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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BR not interested in buying Napster systemwide
By Associated Press,  WATE.com, April 30, 2004
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1830040

"NASHVILLE (AP) -- It doesn't look like Tennessee colleges will be
buying a new service from Napster, which is trying to sell music legally
to colleges and universities."
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Recordable DVDs New Target of Hollywood
By Liza Porteus, FoxNews.com,  May 10, 2004
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119414,00.html

"WASHINGTON - Some lawmakers are introducing a bill that Hollywood is
not happy about - one that would allow consumers to make personal copies
of digital entertainment like DVDs to be played on whatever device they
want."
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When One Man's Video Art Is Another's Copyright Crime
By ROBERTA SMITH, New York Times.com, May 6, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/arts/design/06VIDE.html
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"Jon Routson's exhibition of videos at the Team Gallery in Chelsea is a
kind of last hurrah, a farewell performance. It is also a small eddy in
the increasingly roiled waters where art meets the United States'
rapidly expanding copyright laws."
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Information Cannot be Owned 
By Jean Nicolas Druey, Research Publication No. 2004-05, 4/2004

"This paper can be downloaded without charge at:
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society Research Publication Series:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications
The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection:
http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=XXXXXX";
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Anonymous file-swapping programmer arrested
By Will Knight, NewScientist.com news service, May 04
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994978

"A professor at Tokyo University in Japan has been arrested and charged
with copyright offences after developing a computer program that
promises to let users share files with anonymity."
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Congressional panel to weigh digital copyright
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, May 10, 2004
http://news.com.com/2110-1028_3-5209689.html

"A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday plans to hold what
appears to be the first hearing devoted to critiquing the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act. Critics of the 1998 law are hoping to use the
event to slam its highly controversial "anti-circumvention"
sections--which generally prohibit bypassing copy-protection
technology--and drum up support for an alternative called the Digital
Media Consumers' Rights Act."
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Woman fined for getting tunes off Internet
By ASSOCIATED PRESS, heraldtribune.com, May 06. 2004
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040506/NEWS/40506006

"BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A federal judge has fined a Connecticut woman
$6,000 for allegedly downloading copyright-protected music from the
Internet."
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Academics Patent P2P Spoofing
By Katie Dean, Wired.com, May. 08, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63384,00.html

"A computer science professor and graduate student have been awarded a
patent for a method of thwarting illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer
networks by flooding the network with bogus files that look like pirated
music."
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U.S. Moves Against Online Pirates
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Apr. 22, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63178,00.html/wn_ascii

"WASHINGTON -- Undercover investigations into Internet piracy identified
more than 100 people in the United States and abroad involved in the
theft of more than $50 million worth of music, movies and software, U.S.
authorities said Thursday."
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New Lawsuit Spotlights Thousands of Copyright "Orphans" That Should Be
in the Public Domain
Fepproject.org , (April 8, 2004) 
http://www.fepproject.org/news/kahle.html

""It ain't over till it's over," as Yogi Berra famously said. They may
have lost their legal challenge to the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term
Extension Act" last year, but Internet archivists and cyberlawyers have
now filed a new case arguing that changes in the copyright system over
the last 30 years have had such dramatically represssive effects as to
violate the First Amendment and the Constitution's Copyright Clause."
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EarthLink, Cox Pulled Into Music Piracy Suits: Cases could determine
standards for disclosing Internet users' names
By R. Robin McDonald, Fulton County Daily Report, 05-07-2004
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1083783532580

"Music piracy cases in Georgia could determine whether recording
companies must meet certain standards before forcing Internet service
providers to hand over the names of subscribers suspected of downloading
and circulating copyrighted, bootleg recordings."
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New DVD copying software tries to skirt law
By Peter Svensson, Associated Press,5/6/2004
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-06-avoiding-copy-laws_x.htm

"NEW YORK - Court rulings have pulled the most popular software for
copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program, already on sale at
CompUSA and Wal-Mart, is trying to get around these rulings and still
let users duplicate copy-protected discs."
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Microsoft announces copyright protection for digital Content 
By Katu.com, May 4, 2004
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=67031

"REDMOND - Microsoft announced new copyright protection software for
digital content."