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Senate May Ram Copyright Bill
By Michael Grebb, Wired.com, Nov. 16, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65704,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

"WASHINGTON -- Several lobbying camps from different industries and
ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law,
which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the
record companies and which Congress might try to push through during a
lame-duck session that begins this week."
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In the Copyright Wars, This Scholar Sides With the Anarchists
By SCOTT CARLSON, Chronicle.com,  November 19, 2004
http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i13/13a02901.htm

"NYU's Siva Vaidhyanathan wants to keep the stuff of culture out of the
hands of the information oligarchs"
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Europe to Consider Complaints About Online Music Royalties
By PAUL MELLER, International Herald Tribune,  November 15, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/16musiccnd.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1100703601-6iTOZDLGFMDz90la6jjANw
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"BRUSSELS, Nov. 15 - The organizations that collect royalties for
songwriters in Europe are preparing to defend themselves at a hearing on
Tuesday against accusations by the European Commission that they are
restricting competition in the field of music distribution over the
Internet."
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'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread'
By Xeni Jardin,  Wired.com, Nov. 15, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00.html

"Giving away an album online isn't the way most artists end up with gold
records. But it worked out that way for Wilco."
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The one-sided copyright issue
By Chris Brand, New Westminster, B.C, Globe and Mail Update, Nov 15,
2004
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041115.gtcopyright1115/BNStory/Technology/

"The following letter has been received in response to Jack Kapica's
story Ottawa's copyright plans wrongheaded, experts say (Nov. 11):"
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Hundreds Flock to Download Wirehog
By ZACHARY M. SEWARD, The Harvard Crimson, November 15, 2004
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=504504

"Wirehog, a new breed of file-sharing program spawned by the creator of
thefacebook.com, made its official debut on the Harvard and Stanford
campuses yesterday with hundreds of students signing up to use the
service."
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Conservatives Aim to Sink Pirate Act
By Roy Mark, Internetnews.com, November 12, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3435421

"WASHINGTON -- The American Conservative Union (ACU) accused Hollywood
of attempting to "shanghai" public policy for its own agenda as it urged
Congress to reject a package of proposed new intellectual property
laws."
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The Staggering Cost of Copyright Theft
By Bob Wright -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/15/2004
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA480237.html?verticalid=311&industry=Editorials&industryid=1034
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"Abstract: Nearly 170 years ago, in Democracy in America, the Frenchman
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "The sovereignty of the people and the
liberty of the press may be looked on as correlative institutions." Put
more simply: You can't have a free people without a free press. And, as
Thomas Jefferson pointed out, you can't have a free people without
having an informed people."
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Free Culture Fest Targets Copyright Restrictions
By John P. Mello Jr., TechNewsWorld, 11/12/04
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Free-Culture-Fest-Targets-Copyright-Restrictions-38084.html

"According to Jessica Litman, a law professor at Wayne State University,
copyright law traditionally has been an insiders game, negotiated by the
affected parties. "What's happening now is that we're trying to apply
this law to a couple hundred million consumers, and it doesn't make any
sense to them," she said."
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On the Net: Afraid of the Darknet
by James Patrick Kelly, Asimov's Science Fiction
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0412/onthenet.shtml

"Say your kid sister drops by for a visit. She lives on the Left Coast
and has driven clear across the country to your place on the Right
Coast. To keep herself from falling asleep on the tedious stretches of
I-80, she has brought along some of her CD collection. Naturally, you're
interested in what she's listening to these days and, as you idly flip
the pages of her CD binder, you notice that she owns Herbie Hancock's"
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Copyright-sharing group delves into science
By John Borland,  CNET News.com November 10, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5447531.html

"Creative Commons, a nonprofit group aimed at carving out ways to share
creative works, is expanding from the realm of copyright into patents
and scientific publishing."