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DMCA hammer comes down on tech service vendor
By Jason Schultz, Lawgeek, July 09, 2004
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/07/dmca_hammer_com.html

"This just in: A district court in Boston has used the DMCA to grant a
preliminary injunction against a third party service vendor who tried to
fix StorageTek tape library backup systems for legitimate purchasers of
the system."
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How to Make a Guerrilla Documentary
By ROBERT S. BOYNTON, NYT.com, July 11, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/magazine/11FOX.html
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"The offices of Robert Greenwald Productions occupy a slightly rundown,
horseshoe-shaped building in Los Angeles, just down the street from
Culver Studios, the legendary movie facility where ''Gone With the
Wind'' and ''Citizen Kane'' were filmed. Back in the day, the R.G.P.
building, then a motel, was used by studio executives for liaisons with
starlets and mistresses."
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Glimmer of hope in copyright measures
By Dan Gillmor, Mercurynews.com,  Jul. 11, 2004
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/9129662.htm?1c
 
"The copyright wars continue. For a change, I have some modestly good
news from the front lines."
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Tools to copy DVDs abound; so do ethics issues
By Dave Wilson, IHT.com/ NYT, July 10, 2004
http://www.iht.com/articles/528717.htm

"While the film industry has forced 321 Studios, a U.S. company, to stop
selling software that can copy Hollywood movies sold on DVDs, its
success may be limited. Purveyors of software tools that can do the same
thing, sometimes better, are flourishing on the Internet - and the wares
are often free"
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Copyright clarification partnership founded: JISC onboard with SURF for
international partnership
By Mark Chillingworth, IWR.co.uk,  [09-07-2004]
http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1156558

"The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has entered into a
#100,000 joint project with its Dutch counterpart to clarify
international copyright law. JISC and Holland's SURF will study
copyright law and produce working toolkits for academic information
professionals in both nations. "
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SCO: IBM 'mischaracterizes' lawsuit: SCO is seeking to prevent a summary
judgement, which could end its suit against Big Blue
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, July 09, 2004
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/09/HNscomischaracterize_1.html

"The SCO Group Inc. on Thursday submitted written arguments explaining
why a Utah judge should not issue a summary judgment dismissing its
multibillion-dollar lawsuit against IBM Corp."
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Winwood: Roll With P2P, Baby
By Katie Dean, Wired.com, Jul. 09, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64128,00.html/wn_ascii

"Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steve Winwood dipped a toe in largely
untested waters this summer by giving away a track from his latest album
on peer-to-peer networks. The experiment appears to be working out."
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Stolen a film? MPAA wants to know
By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, July 8, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5262427.html

"One in four people online has illegally downloaded a feature film--and
it's cutting into box-office and DVD sales, the Motion Picture
Association of America said in a study released Thursday."
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IPR infringement law set for major change tomorrow
By Jessie Ho, Taipeitimes.com, Jul 09, 2004,Page 1
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/07/09/2003178231

"CLASSIC FILMS: Long a staple of film buffs in Taiwan, pre-1965 films
will no longer be exempt from copyright protection laws, and prices will
climb"
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Household Internet Use Survey: 2003
By Jonathan Ellison, The Daily (Canada), July 8, 2004
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/040708/d040708a.htm

"The number of Canadian households surfing the Internet continued to
grow in 2003 according to the Household Internet Use Survey. However,
growth rates remained relatively stable largely because the majority of
households were already plugged in."
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Whose DVD? A Debate Over Copies
By DAVE WILSON, NYT.com, July 8, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/technology/circuits/08copy.html

"WHILE the film industry has forced 321 Studios, a Missouri company, to
stop selling software that can copy Hollywood movies sold on DVD's, its
success may be limited. Purveyors of software tools that can do the same
thing, sometimes better, are flourishing on the Internet - and the wares
are often free."