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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Copyright turned on its head
By Graeme Philipson, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 25, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/24/1085359552567.html

"Still the emails keep coming. The issue of intellectual property and
copyright is one of the most contentious of the information millennium.
Since stirring up this hornet's nest, I have received emails from around
the world. A producer of native music CDs in Canada is worried that
copyright is all his struggling artists have. The wife of a songwriter
in the same country expresses the same concern about her husband's
livelihood. A London musician spoke against abuses of the existing
system."
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Region mods safe in FTA
By Simon Hayes, australianit.news.com, MAY 25, 2004
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9650319%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

"THE Federal Government has moved to reassure users of DVD players they
will not be restricted by a regional encoding system. In the wake of the
US-Australian free trade agreement, the Government has hinted it would
introduce exceptions to a ban on circumvention devices.
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Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Thou Shalt Not Swap
The uses and abuses of copyright.
Reviewed by Nathan Anderson, Christianity Today, Week of May 24
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/121/13.0.html

"Christian music publishers hoped they were different. As song swapping
grew exponentially in the late 1990s, the Christian labels stayed silent
on the issue, thinking that Christian teens would behave differently
from their non-Christian peers."
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The Future of Music Distribution
Interview with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz Tom Tom Club founders,
former Talking Heads members
Tech News, May 24, 2004; 3:00 p.m
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/sp_technews_WeymouthFrantz052404.htm

"Internet music downloading, online piracy and other changes in the way
people get their music present unique challenges for independent
artists. Join Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, founders of the Tom Tom
Club and former bassist and drummer of the Talking Heads, discussed
these issues with washingtonpost.com reporter David McGuire.

A transcript follows."
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LINUX SUITS TEST FRONTIERS OF COPYRIGHT
By PAUL FOY, NYPost.com, May 23, 2004
http://www.nypost.com/business/24490.htm

"When Utah technology executive Darl McBride sniffs Linux, the free
computer operating system, he picks up a sc ent of Unix, a long-
established business system he maintains made Linux sturdy and
reliable."
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Napster Reincarnation Marks New Internet Era
By Ali Olsen, NewsFactor Network, May 22, 2004
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Napster-Reincarnation-Marks-New-Internet-Era&story_id=24163

"Napster's UK debut is exciting because it raises the stakes in the
music-subscription game by targeting a much bigger audience. "All of
these legitimate online-music sites have had the intention of going
global," says GartnerG2 analyst Mike McGuire. "But there are copyright
issues, language issues and business-licensing issues...."
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Kid's aren't worried about software copyright More concerned about
viruses than legal trouble: survey
By Chris Sorensen, Financial Post. May 22, 2004
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=1bd2795c-1c74-42a7-aff1-dccd716a734d

"U.S. teenagers who download music for free from the Internet aren't
claiming ignorance when it comes to copyright laws -- they're simply
ignoring them while online."
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>From Be Spacific.com:
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/005766.html
May 20, 2004
House Hearing on Movie Filtering and Derivative Rights

Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property,
Oversight Hearing, "Derivative Rights, Moral Rights, and Movie Filtering
Technology," May 20, 2004: Witness List, Statements/Testimony: Chairman
Lamar Smith, Howard L. Berman, Joanne Cantor, Jeff McIntyre, Bill Aho,
Majorie Heins."
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Of Screenshots & Copyright Violation!
By R P G A M E R   -   J A P A N D E M O N I U M , 0 5 . 2 0 . 2 0 0 4
http://www.rpgamer.com/news/japan/rp052004.html

"Perhaps one of the biggest news bits of Japanese gaming recently is the
arrest of the owner of the extremely popular gaming site, Game Online.
He was arrested in Fukuoka on charges of copyright violation.
Apparently, a number of companies, including RPG developer juggernaut
Square Enix, discovered illegal screenshots on the site."
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Sharman Kazaa uses ancient law in copyright defence Inspired by pianola
rolls
By Tamlin Magee, theinquirer.net, 20 May 2004
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16043

"CONTROVERSIAL P2P MAIN-MEN Sharman License Holdings is defending its
massive hub from copyright infringement charges with a 100 year old
precedent."
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Lobbyists Feel the Tech Love
By Joanna Glasner, Wired.com, May. 20, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63522,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

"With federal legislation pending that will affect matters ranging from
DVD copying to spyware dissemination, technology firms are spending
heavily on lobbyists to impress their views on influential members of
Congress."
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Calif. senate OKs bill aimed to curb Net sharing of music, films
By Associated Press, USAToday.com, 5/20/2004
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-20-p2p-addy_x.htm

"SACRAMENTO (AP) - A bill intended to discourage Internet pirating of
music and films by requiring disseminators to disclose their e-mail
addresses was approved by the California State Senate on Wednesday."
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>From BNA  (ILN) - 5/20/04:
LOUISIANA HOUSE APPROVES UCITA BOMB SHELTER LEGISLATION
BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports that the Louisiana House
has unanimously approved "bomb shelter" legislation to thwart
application of UCITA to a computer information agreement where the
agreement does not have a choice of law provision. The bill would allow
a party to void any provision in a computer information agreement that
would result in application of UCITA to all or part of that agreement.
Article at
<http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/is/a0a8t1h3r5>
For a free trial to source of this story, visit
http://www.bna.com/products/ip/eplr.htm "
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RIAA Bags 493 More Swappers
By Reuters, Wired.com, May. 24, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63579,00.html

"WASHINGTON -- A U.S. music industry group says it has sued 493 more
people for copyright infringement as part of its campaign to stop
consumers from copying music over the Internet."