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Lawmakers OK antipiracy czar
By Reuters, Cnet.com, November 23, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5464576.htm

"Buried inside the massive $388 billion spending bill Congress approved
last weekend is a program that creates a federal copyright enforcement
czar."
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Court nixes lawsuit fighting copyright law
By John Borland, CNET News.com, November 24, 2004
http://news.com.com/Court+nixes+lawsuit+fighting+copyright+law/2100-1030_3-5466329.html

"update A lawsuit brought by a group of Internet archivists against
recent congressional actions expanding copyright protections has been
dismissed by a federal judge."
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Copyright Reform is Not a Spectator Sport
By Michael Geist, CAUT / ACPPU, November 2004
http://www.caut.ca/en/bulletin/issues/2004_nov/comm_copyrightreform.asp

"The education community has the opportunity to emerge as a positive
force for change by actively supporting a uniquely Canadian vision of
copyright that compensates creators, facilitates access & embraces
Canadian culture. Michael Geist argues it is time to get in the game"
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Musicians call for an update on copyright law
 CTV.ca News Staff, CTV.ca, 
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1101331178030_15/?hub=Canada

 "Some of Canada's best-known musicians appeared on a different stage
Wednesday -- Parliament Hill -- to band together and lobby politicians
to toughen up Canada's outdated copyright laws."
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File-swapping embraced: THREE MAJOR RECORD LABELS GREE TO DISTRIBUTE
SONGS ON WEB SERVICE
 By Dawn C. Chmielewski,  Mercury News, Nov. 24, 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/10261238.htm
 
"In another deal that signals the music industry's increasing
willingness to co-opt rather than crush file-swapping technology, three
major record labels have agreed to distribute songs through a new online
service expected to debut early next year."
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Copyright Bill Clears Senate Minus Induce Act
By Keith Regan, E-Commerce Times, 11/23/04
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Copyright-Bill-Clears-Senate-Minus-Induce-Act-38423.html

"The new bill appears to strip out much of the most hotly contested
material in the original legislation, including a provision, contained
in the PIRATE Act, that gave attorneys general the authority to file
lawsuits against alleged infringers. Also shelved was language from an
earlier bill that would have lowered the threshold for proving copyright
infringement."