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Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, March 15, 2005; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35297-2005Mar14.html?referrer=email
"PALO ALTO, Calif. -- When Chuck D and the Fine Arts Militia released
their latest single, "No Meaning No," several months ago, they didn't
try to stop people from circulating free copies on the Internet. They
encouraged it."
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U.K. gets tough on music swappers
By Graeme Wearden, CNET News.com, March 14, 2005
http://news.com.com/U.K.+gets+tough+on+music+swappers/2100-1027_3-5615896.html?tag=alert
"The U.K. music industry has compared the fight against illegal online
file sharing with curbing drunk driving."
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Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future Federal
Depository Library Program
by James A. Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, and Shinjoung Yeo
[Article to appear in Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2005,
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jacalib]
By CORY DOCTOROW Boingboing.com, March 14, 2005
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/14/us_govt_to_apply_drm.html
"Rapid technological change has caused some to question the need for the
Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). We argue that the traditional
roles of FDLP libraries in selecting, acquiring, organizing, preserving,
and providing access to and services for government information are more
important than ever in the digital age."
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National Geographic Wins Copyright Suit Over Articles, Photos on CD-Rom
Michael Bobelian, New York Law Journal/Law.com, 03-09-2005
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1110310803826
"The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed a lower court
ruling dismissing copyright claims against National Geographic by
interpreting the copyrights at issue within the context of the U.S.
Supreme Court's 2001 Tasini ruling."
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National Geographic CD-ROM archive does not violate copyright law
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0307-cop-nation.html
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New methods eyed for buying movies
By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, March 14, 2005
http://news.com.com/New%20methods%20eyed%20for%20buying%20movies/2100-1026_3-5615685.html?tag=nefd.top
"The Menlo Park, Calif., company has created a site at which consumers
can trade their old DVDs with one another, thereby stretching their
entertainment budgets and clearing out clutter."
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MOVIES DOWNLOADING JUDGED LEGAL IN FRANCE
By Audionautes.net, 11 mars 2005
http://www.audionautes.net/blog/index.php?2005/03/11/23-movies-downloading-judged-legal-in-france
"On Thursday, the French Court of Appeal of Montpellier released a 22
years old Internet user free of charges after he was sued for copying
nearly 500 movies on Internet, burning them on CDs and sharing them with
friends. The Court based its decision on the article L-122-5 of the
French Intellectual Property Code stating that + authors cant forbid
copies or reproductions that are only intented for the private use of
the copyist."
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British court forces ISPs to reveal music sharers
By Reuters, March 11, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5611010.html
"British music companies on Friday said they had won the right to force
Internet service providers to disclose the names and addresses of
individuals accused of uploading large numbers of songs onto
file-sharing networks."
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Give the public access to ideas it paid for
By MICHAEL GEIST, The Toronto Star, Mar. 14, 2005
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1110754209098&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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"Last month, in celebration of Black History Month, thousands of
Internet users engaged in a small act of civil disobedience. They
downloaded Eyes on the Prize, the award-winning documentary series on
the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, which is no longer
available for purchase due to the expiry of rights to certain clips used
in the film."
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Hollywood applauds Swedish ISP raid
Steve Gorman in Los Angeles, Australian IT News, MARCH 14, 2005
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12538402%5E27317%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
"THE US film industry has hailed a raid by Swedish police against an
internet service provider as a major blow to European piracy of movies
and music on the web."
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Security researchers fear libel chill from proposed copyright amendments
By: Tom Venetis, IT World Canada, 10 Mar 2005
http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-878b86ab-a30a-4dd6-bb05-eb15f48fb62f&News=Daily%20ITwire
"It isnt often that Canadian IT security researchers worry about
copyright legislation."
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Group complains about 'legal' download sites
By Grant Gross, MacCentral/IDG News Service, March 09, 2005
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/09/legaldownload/index.php
"The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington, D.C.,
Internet civil liberties group, on Tuesday filed a federal
deceptive-advertising complaint against two Web sites claiming to offer
"100 percent legal" downloads of music, movies and software."
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Arizona student guilty of Web piracy
By Matt Hines, CNET News.com, March 8, 2005
http://news.com.com/Arizona+student+guilty+of+Web+piracy/2110-1030_3-5604005.html?tag=alert
"A University of Arizona student is believed to be the first person in
the nation to plead guilty under state Internet piracy laws. Parvin
Dhaliwal, 18, was charged with uploading digital copies of recently
released movies and music. He entered a guilty plea to possession of
counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies of intellectual property, a
Class 6 Felony under Arizona's new piracy law, according to the Arizona
state Attorney General's Office"