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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Copyright Issues in Digital Media, 
By Congressional Budget Office, August 2004
http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5738&sequence=0
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Copy-protection For Copyright - Legal Issues -
by Errol Niles, Barbados Nation Online newspaper, 09, August-2004
http://www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=52349&Section=Business&Current=2004-08-09%2000%3A00%3A00

"Very recently Sony obtained summary judgement in relation to its
PlayStation 2 console and hardware designed to circumvent Sony's copy
protection and game/DVD region protection, called mod-chips."
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New Copyright Law Underway
By Ahamefula Ogbu,  This Day (Lagos), August 9, 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408090994.html

"Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Culture and
Tourism, Hon Bernard Udoh, has pledged to expedite action in the process
of tightening anti-piracy laws in the country following the discovery of
the involvement of foreign nationals operating as cartels in the illegal
activities."
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Head to head: Music copyright
By Peter Jamieson, chairman - British Phonographic Industry AND Louis
Barfe, author - Where Have All the Good Times Gone? The Rise and Fall of
the Record Industry, BBC News.com, 10 August, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3547788.stm

"With the first wave of rock 'n' roll recordings - starting with Elvis
Presley - about to go out of copyright in Europe, the UK music industry
wants the current 50-year time limit extended. But would this also be
good news for fans? Both sides of the argument are put forward below."
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A blueprint for better copyright law
By MICHAEL GEIST, The Toronto Star.com,  Aug. 9, 2004
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1092003010458&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

"Imagine an Ontario government initiative that responded to rising
concern over speeding on provincial highways by installing hundreds of
automated radar guns to identify cars that failed to obey the speed
limit. Rather than sending a speeding ticket to those caught by the
system, however, the government instead sent a bailiff to confiscate the
car keys so that the alleged speeding car could no longer be used."
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Library Of Congress Invite Comments On Copyright Regulations
Managing Information.com, 9 August 2004
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2977

"The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is proposing to amend
its regulations to permit the Library of Congress to record unpublished
radio and other audio and audiovisual transmission programs."
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Music download hunt hits Hawai'i
By Associated Press, Honolulu Advisor.com,  August 8, 2004
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Aug/08/ln/ln15a.html

"A Big Island woman is being sued by several Mainland record companies
that say she downloaded music from the Internet."
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'Stealing songs is wrong' lessons head for UK schools
By John Lettice, The Register, 5th August 2004
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/05/uk_school_copyright_lessons/

"At the beginning of last month the British Government launched a "Music
Manifesto" to promote music in schools. But already this typically
Blairite bundle of good intentions is being hijacked (with not a little
cooperation from the minders in Whitehall) in order to inflict copyright
lessons on schoolchildren, from pre-school onwards."
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AmCham urges Wang to push copyright bill
By Jane Rickards, TAIPEI, Taiwan, The China Post, 2004/8/7
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=51326&GRP=B

"The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (AmCham) yesterday urged
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng to push an amended Copyright Law bill
through the Legislature, saying it was the most important thing Taiwan
could do to improve investor  confidence."
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DVD XCopy Maker Shuts Doors
By Cade Metz, PCMagazine.com, August 6, 2004
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1632504,00.asp

"This past Monday, 321 Studios shut its doors. Maker of the once popular
DVD copying applications, DVD X Copy and DVD Copy Plus, the St. Charles,
Missouri company has brought an end to nearly two years of legal battles
with the leading Hollywood Studios, which felt the software was in
violation of federal law. In February, the company was barred from
selling its DVD copying engine, and it could no longer afford to carry
on."
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AGs call for halt to P2P swapping
By Brooks Boliek  Hollywood Reporter.com, Aug. 06, 2004
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000601145

"WASHINGTON -- Nearly all the top law enforcement officers in the
individual states signed on to a letter delivered to the peer-to-peer
services and their Washington-based trade associations Thursday that
urges the wildly popular Internet distribution systems to clean up their
act."
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Houses passes movie piracy bill
By Michael Kunzelman, Metro West Daily, August 6, 2004
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=74882

"BOSTON - A bill outlawing the electronic piracy of movies cleared the
state House of Representatives yesterday and now heads to the Senate."
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States Warn File-Sharing Networks Letter Seeks 'Concrete and Meaningful
Steps' to Curb Illegal Use
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post, August 5, 2004; Page E02
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41012-2004Aug4.html

"More than 40 state attorneys general are set to warn major peer-to-peer
file-sharing networks that they may face enforcement actions if they do
not take steps to stem illegal activity on the networks, such as the
trading of child pornography and stolen movies and music."