In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Copyright: Can it hold knowledge hostage? 
By Corey Murray, Eschool News, August 1, 2004
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=5197

"When digital video first streamed into schools, many predicted it would
one day revolutionize teaching and learning."
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BSA explains its ethos
By David Becker, CNET News.com, August 03, 2004
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020490,39162436,00.htm

"Enforcement vice president Bob Kruger outlines why he considers failing
to keep track of licences tantamount to piracy. If you don't know what
the Business Software Alliance is, consider yourself lucky."
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Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink Helps Dow Jones Provide New
Online Reprints Service
By BUSINESS WIRE.com, Aug. 3, 2004
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040803005064&newsLang=en

"-Copyright Clearance Center, the world's premier provider of copyright
licensing and compliance solutions, today announced that Dow Jones &
Company is using its point-of-content licensing solution, Rightslink(R),
for a new online service, Special News Reports. This new service will
enable Dow Jones customers to access reprints of unique bundles of
content that include - for the first time - articles from The Wall
Street Journal and Barron's. As a result, Rightslink provides Dow Jones
with an easy way to give customers access to the focused content they
need through an efficient, fully automated solution."
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Pay Us for Our Songs, Say Artistes
By Philip Mwaniki, The Nation (Nairobi), August 3, 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408030084.html

"Musicians took to the streets yesterday to protest against non-payment
of royalties for their works."
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Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
By Cynthia L. Webb, washingtonpost.com, August 3, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36325-2004Aug3.html?referrer=email

"Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to convince the general
public that the Linux operating system is becoming more of a threat to
Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld conference underway this week
in San Francisco, there is finally a sure-fire sign that this may be the
case: Microsoft won't be there"
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JibJab Asks for Court's Help
By Rachel Metz, Wired.com, Aug. 01, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64428,00.html

"JibJab Media, a small Web animation outfit, on Thursday asked a
California district court to declare that it did not violate the
copyrights of Ludlow Music, the owner of Woody Guthrie's song "This Land
Is Your Land," which is the basis of a satirical JibJab cartoon
lampooning the presidential candidates."
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In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in Public Domain
By STEVE LOHR, New York Times, August 3, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/technology/03java.html
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"I.B.M. plans to announce today that it is contributing more than half a
million lines of its software code, valued at $85 million, to an open
source software group"
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John Kerry's real tech agenda
By Declan McCullagh, TechNews.com,  August 2, 2004
http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5291476.html

"The Democratic National Convention is over, some $65 million has been
spent on a week-long party in Boston, and what do we now know about John
Kerry? The Massachusetts senator barely mentioned technology in his
convention speech, except to marvel at ever-shrinking microchips and
implore everyone to visit JohnKerry.com. That's not much to work with."
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Copyright Commission Impounds Millions of Naira Pirated Books
By Tony Edike, Vanguard (Lagos), August 2, 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408020653.html

"PIRATED books and contrivances for piracy worth several millions of
naira have been impounded by officials of the Nigerian Copyright
Commission and the police from the commercial town of Onitsha while
three persons were arrested in connection with the illegal business."
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World first as copyright laws protect perfume
By Estelle Ellis, August 02 2004
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=116&art_id=vn20040802051752618C404368

"Lanctme's Trisor perfume made legal history by becoming the first scent
in the world to be copyrighted - which means nobody can copy the scent
and sell it cheaper - at least in the Netherlands."
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Bill proposed to strengthen copyright laws: 'Induce Act' could create
consequences for universities
By David Kassabian, Daily Texan Online, August 2, 2004
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/08/02/TopStories/Bill-Proposed.To.Strengthen.Copyright.Laws-696975.shtml

"A new bill aimed at reducing illegal copyright violations may hurt
universities and some technology companies because of broad wording,
according to three higher-education groups."
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Canada Music Biz Bites Dentists
By Katie Dean, Wired.com, Aug. 02, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64397,00.html/wn_ascii

"When Dr. Alfred Dean, a dentist in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, treats his
patients, he often plugs his iPod into the office stereo system and
plays songs from his collection. The island where he lives is a hub of
Celtic music, so his digital music player is stocked with local artists,
as well as bluegrass and 1970s music."
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Harry Potter and the inviolate copyright act: Fans at an Ottawa
conference found a novel way to avoid lawsuits: They made Harry Canadian
By Sarah Staples, The Ottawa Citizen, August 01, 2004
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/soundoff/story.html?id=84927a1e-77b0-43a3-850c-f8079e1f4021

"It's tough being a Harry Potter fan club these days. Mention the
bespectacled teen wizard in a conference program, put up posters, or --
heaven forbid -- dress up like him and you risk a trademark infringement
lawsuit from the higher powers that control Harry's merchandising
empire."
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Pop Psychology: Legal issues out of tune
By Josh Wardrop, Metro News Daily, August 1, 2004
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/artsCulture/view.bg?articleid=74427

"Do you ever find yourself thinking about music copyright law? Of course
not -- why would you?  The truth is, most musicians, traditionally,
don't give it a lot of thought either. In between writing the songs,
recording the songs, touring the world, scoring top-quality Turkish
hashish, punching out photographers and entertaining groupies, there's
very little time left for exploring the fine print."