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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Canada and Copyright
Michael Ingram, Slyck.com, June 16, 2004
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=509

"In a global fight between copyright holders and users, the battles in
Canada have stood out from the crowd. As a result of various opinions
and court decisions, Canadians are one group out of very few who refer
to downloading copyrighted music for free as legal."
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AU music industry body attacks ISPs over copyright stance
By Abby Dinham, ZDNet Australia, 16 June 2004
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39150665,00.htm

"The general manager of the music industry's piracy investigations
(MIPI) unit, Michael Speck, has accused Internet service providers of
trying to evade copyright liability in an address to the Senate Select
Committee on the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the US
(AUSFTA) last week."
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Latham dishonest on FTA: Downer
theage.com.au, June 16, 2004
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/16/1087244970015.html?oneclick=true

"Opposition Leader Mark Latham had dishonestly misled the public about
the impact of the Australian-United States free trade agreement, Foreign
Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said. Mr Downer said Mr Latham had
mixed up the purported cost of the FTA to the Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme (PBS), and then not admitted his mistake. It follows comments by
Mr Latham this week in relation to a Senate committee commissioned study
which has found the price of generic drugs would go up under the FTA.
The study also found changes to copyright rules, extending copyright
protection from 50 years to 70 years, would cost Australia $700
million."
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BBC to Open Content Floodgates
By Katie Dean, Wired.com, Jun. 16, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63857,00.html/wn_ascii

"The British Broadcasting Corporation's Creative Archive, one of the
most ambitious free digital content projects to date, is set to launch
this fall with thousands of three-minute clips of nature programming.
The effort could goad other organizations to share their professionally
produced content with Web users."
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Three makers of video games sue company, alleging piracy
By Associated Press, siliconvalley.com, Jun. 15, 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8929386.htm

"ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Three makers of video games sued a Missouri company
marketing software that enables consumers to make backup copies of
computer games."
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Movie industry to air new anti-piracy Ads
By Associated Press, siliconvalley.com, Jun. 15, 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8929935.htm

"LOS ANGELES (AP) - The film industry is expanding its awareness
campaign against online movie piracy with a nationwide rollout of
newspapers and magazine ads, the industry's trade group said Tuesday."
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Prince countersues in privacy fight over student's camera
By Chao Xiong,  Star Tribune, June 15, 2004
http://www.startribune.com/stories/457/4828786.html

"Generally, no one has a right of privacy in a public space, especially
a celebrity," Tanick said, adding that airports are public spaces. "You
can't copyright yourself. It sounds like he's [Prince] not tuned into
the law." University of Minnesota Law School Prof. Dan Burk said Prince
has no grounds to claim violation of copyright or trademark laws or
invasion of privacy. In this case, said Burk, who specializes in
intellectual property and copyright law, the copyright belongs to
Fitzgerald because he fixed Prince's image in a tangible medium.
Trademarks are used to distinguish products belonging to certain brands
and would only pertain to this case if Fitzgerald tried to sell the
photo he took as a product endorsed by Prince, Burk said."
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Swap blockers graduate to high schools
By John Borland, CNET News.com, June 14, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5233272.html

"Technology aimed at identifying and blocking copyrighted songs as
they're being traded on file-swapping networks is beginning to move into
high schools."
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Copyright reform needs a balanced approach
By MICHAEL GEIST, The Toronto Star.com, Jun. 14, 2004
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1087165504982&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

"My recent column on Canadian copyright reform, which highlighted the
dangers to both the Internet and to our education system posed by a
report from a parliamentary committee chaired by Toronto-area MP Sarmite
Bulte, touched off many reactions - both supportive and critical."
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New copyright grants artists greater license
By Jennifer L. Schenker, IHT.com, June 14, 2004
http://www.iht.com/articles/524710.htm

"An alternative copyright that allows authors and artists to give away
their work while retaining some commercial rights is being adapted for
use across Europe and beyond."
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Permissions on Digital Media Drive Scholars to Lawbooks
By TOM ZELLER Jr., New YorkTimes.com, June 14, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/business/media/14fair.html
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"When some 20,000 first-year American medical students reported to their
schools last summer, they received a free 20-minute multimedia collage
of music, text and short video clips from television doctor dramas, past
and present, burned onto a CD-ROM."
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Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio Copying Limits
By Andy Sullivan, Reuters.com, Jun 11, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5404542

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality
sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song copying if
protections are not put in place, a recording-industry trade group
warned on Friday."