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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Internet publishing attracting academics
By Julie Bell, Baltimore Sun, August 16, 2004
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/08/16/internet_publishing_attracting_academics/

"BALTIMORE -- Manuel Llinas knew his career was at stake. The young
scientist had just finished work on an eye-catching paper on the genome
of a parasite that causes malaria. Now he and his lab director faced a
critical decision: where to submit the article for publication."
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Songwriters make play to curb illegal downloads
By Chris Lewis, nashvillecitypaper.com, August 17, 2004
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=10&screen=news&news_id=35060

"HED: Songwriters appeal to power Nashville songwriters who have seen
their income erode because of illegal music downloading shared their
woes Monday with a powerful sympathizer - U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft's right-hand man for cracking down on Internet theft."
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Anti-Telkom Website Still On Line Despite Legal Threats
By Lesley Stones , Business Day (Johannesburg), August 16, 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408161116.html

"TELKOM said yesterday it was proceeding with legal action against the
owners of Hellkom after failing to shut down the satirical website that
encourages people to vent their feelings about Telkom."
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DVD Jon Strikes Again
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Aug. 15, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64591,00.html/wn_ascii

"SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Norwegian hacker famed for developing DVD
encryption-cracking software has apparently struck again -- this time
breaking the locks on Apple Computer's wireless music-streaming
technology."
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Blogs Build Buzz, Raise Copyright Questions
By Brian Garrity, Reuters.com, Aug 14, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID=5976988

"NEW YORK (Billboard) - The blog has begun to emerge as both a music
industry friend and a potential bootlegging nightmare."
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Professors Seek Compensation for Online Courses: They want extra pay or
time off, but financially strapped colleges are reluctant
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com, August 13, 2004
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i49/49a02701.htm
(Subscription Required)

"After 10 years of teaching accounting over cable and closed-circuit
television, Dennis Smith says he feels pressure from administrators to
put his courses online as well, to meet growing student demand."
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Viet Nam joins convention protecting copyright laws
By VNS, August 13, 2004
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-08/12/Stories/06.htm

"HCM CITY-Viet Nam on October 26 will officially become a member of the
international treaty on copyright law, called the Berne Convention for
the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works."
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Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
By Katie Dean, Wired.com, Aug. 13, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64543,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

"For the third year in a row, software companies are supplying schools
with materials that promote their antipiracy position on copyright law.
But for the first time this year, the library association is presenting
its own material, hoping to give kids a more balanced view of copyright
law."
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Next-gen Copyright-aware P2P System Whitepaper
Posted by Michael, Slashdot.com, August 13
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/13/1833245.shtml?tid=95&tid=98

"from the p2p-stands-for-pay-to-play dept.meier73 writes "A whitepaper
has just been released detailing a secure (OpenSSL/digital signatures),
copyright-aware P2P network."
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A Secure Open Protocol P2P Sales Architecture
By Manu Sporny, President/CEO, Digital Bazaar, Inc.
Standard Copyright with Creative Commons License (Attribution) 2002-2004
http://www.bitmunk.com/help.php?action=fulldisplay&term=secure_p2p_sales_architecture_1
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Methods of evidence collecting and assigning in cases of copyright and
adjacent rights violation
By: Andrey Belousov, Computer Crime Research Center, August 13, 2004
http://www.crime-research.org/articles/Belousov0704/

"According to article 50 of the Ukrainian Copyright and Adjacent Rights
Law, violation of copyright and adjacent rights that makes grounds for
judicial protection is: 
a) any action violating personal non-property rights of owners of
copyright defined by article 14 of this law, and their property rights
defined by article 15 of this law, if else is not provided in the
articles 21-25 of this law;
b) piracy in the sphere of copyright -- publishing, representation,
importation/exportation to/from the custom territory of Ukraine of
counterfeit samples of production (including computer software), audio,
video and broadcasting materials;
c) plagiarism -- giving publicity (publishing), in full or partially, to
someone else's production under the name of a person who is not the
author of this work;"