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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Reed allows academics free web access: 200,000 articles may be available
on the net but competitors accuse publisher of making token effort
By Richard Wray, The Guardian,  June 3, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1230217,00.html

"Reed Elsevier is allowing academics to put papers that have been
accepted for publication in its print and online journals on to the
internet, breaking with years of tradition and reigniting the debate
over open access to academic thinking."
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EDITORIAL: Copyright ethics for the digital age
By The Japan Times: June 3, 2004
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20040603a1.htm

"As a result of rapid advances in the digitization and networking of
information, the environment surrounding copyrights is undergoing
dramatic change. Unfortunately, understanding of copyrights in Japan is
far from adequate. Culture won't be nurtured unless the ethics exist in
which the beneficiaries of outstanding cultural works show respect to
their creators and pay an adequate price for them."
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PPL, broadcasters head for showdown over music copyright
By Indiantelevision.com Team, 4 June 2004
http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k4/june/june46.htm

"MUMBAI: The Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) is threatening to take
broadcasters to court over what they term rampant copyright infringement
by television channels and it is certainly not music to anybody's ears."
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INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Hollywood, Politics and File-Sharing Technology
By Jon Newton, TechNewsWorld, 06/02/04
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/34171.html

"Hollywood is nothing if not inventive. It's also adept at suborning
police forces around the world into acting as unpaid enforcement agents.
Operation FastLink, for example, had FBI agents raiding schools in
Arizona looking for pirated digital movie and music files."
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Labels to dampen CD burning?
By John Borland, CNET News.com, June 2, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5224090.html

"The recording industry is testing technology that would prevent
consumers from making copies of CD "burns," a piracy defense that could
put some significant new restrictions on legally purchased music."
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How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop
By Kembrew McLeod, Stay Free! Magazine, June 1, 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18830

"Then Public Enemy released It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us
Back in 1988, it was as if the album had landed from another planet.
Nothing sounded like it at the time. It Takes a Nation came frontloaded
with sirens, squeals, and squawks that augmented the chaotic, collaged
backing tracks over which P.E. frontman Chuck
D laid his politically and poetically radical rhymes."
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Digital content bound for future
By Eric Wilson, Theage.com, June 1, 2004
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/31/1085855477894.html?oneclick=true

"It has become fashionable to dismiss copyright in the internet age, yet
digital copyright remains fundamental to the viability of online
education and training. Some argue that because online copyright cannot
be easily enforced, its use as a revenue raiser must ultimately be
discarded. But quality free material online is the exception, not the
rule. This article, for example, is available online thanks to only one
thing - advertising dollars."
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Light fingers: Armed with a camera-equipped cellphone, a new brand of
`shoplifter' is putting pressure on bookstores and others who handle
copyrighted material.
By TSUTOMU NARAOKA, The Asahi Shimbun
http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200406010163.html
(Contributed by Stephen Davies)

`If (digital shoplifting) keeps up, our books won't sell.'YOSHIHIRO
MARUOKA Operator of Kobunkan Shoten bookstore in Tokyo Handy for taking
and sharing informal snaps of friends and everyday events,
camera-equipped cellphones also have a negative side that is rapidly
coming into focus."
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Careless coders tempting legal troubles?
By Michael Parsons, CNET News.com, June 3, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-5226035.html

"Most software developers regard "code-borrowing"--reusing existing
software in their own work--as an acceptable practice, despite the legal
minefield it could create for their employers, according to research due
to be published later this week."
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CMRRA: 'protecting songwriters'
By p2pnet.net News:- 
http://p2pnet.net/story/1595

"The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) says it and
Quebec's SODRAC (Sociiti du droit de reproduction des auteurs,
compositeurs et iditeurs au Canada) have filed a joint tariff
application with the Copyright Board of Canada. Calling its latest
effort to help Big Music turn Canada into a US-type controlled outlet a
way "to protect the rights of songwriters," CMRRA already has agreements
with Canadian plastic music sites Puretracks and
Archambault, not to speak of Roxio's desperately struggling Napster II,
and "online music delivery company" MusicNet."
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