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Consumer groups challenge Hollywood, labels
By John Borland, CNET News.com, March 22, 2005
http://news.com.com/Consumer+groups+challenge+Hollywood%2C+labels/2100-1027_3-5630579.html?tag=alert
"Consumer groups launched a full-scale assault on the entertainment
industry's file-swapping legal strategy on Tuesday, with a study arguing
that peer-to-peer networks are good for consumers."
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Press Release: Copyright in libraries: Commission acts to ensure that
authors are remunerated
Brussels, 21 March 2005
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/347&type=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
"The European Commission has decided to refer Italy and Luxembourg to
the European Court of Justice for failure to implement fully into
national legislation the public lending right provided for by a 1992
Directive."
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Orrin Hatch at the Copyright Helm
By Thomas Mennecke, Sylc.com, March 20, 2005
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=707
"United States Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), former chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, has been appointed chairman of the new Intellectual
Property Subcommittee."
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Copyright Suit Targets Google News
By Jay Lyman, TechNewsWorld, 03/21/05
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/networking/41610.html
"Intellectual property attorney Phil Albert was surprised the two
parties had not come to agreement before heading to court."
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Bertelsmann to offer P2P download platform
By Reuters, March 22, 2005
http://news.com.com/Bertelsmann+to+offer+P2P+download+platform/2100-1026_3-5629713.html?tag=alert
"German media giant Bertelsmann, a former partner of file-sharing
network Napster, is launching a new Internet platform for downloading
and sharing movies and games over the Internet, it said Tuesday."
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'DVD Jon' reopens iTunes back door
By John Borland, CNET News.com, March 22, 2005
http://news.com.com/DVD+Jon+reopens+iTunes+back+door/2100-1027_3-5630703.html?tag=alert
"A group of underground programmers has posted code online they say will
reopen a back door in Apple Computer's iTunes store, allowing Linux
computer users to purchase music free of copy protection."
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United States: Supreme Court To Address Copyright Infringement Liability
of File Sharing Companies
By David Moser, Mondaq.com, 18 March 2005
http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_31547
"On March 29th, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments
in one of the most important court decisions affecting the entertainment
industry, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. (the
"Grokster case"), and a decision will likely be announced a few months
later."
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Justices to Weigh Key Copyright Case: Entertainment industry wants to
curb file-sharing
By Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal, 03-21-2005
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1111140311851
"The most important copyright challenge in decades will unfold in the
U.S. Supreme Court next week with potentially enormous damages and the
future of Internet innovation at stake."
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Open Source Licensing: Rosen Claims GPL Would Never Stand Up in Court:
Rosen Called the LGPL an "Impenetrable Maze of Technological Babble."
By Maureen O'Gara/Linux Business Week, March 19, 2005
http://www.linuxbusinessweek.com/story/48732.htm
"Larry Rosen...basically declared a heretic by the purist Free Software
Foundation (FSF) for recognizing open source licenses other than the
GPL," reports Maureen O'Gara, "wrote a book last year about licensing
that says that FSF should ditch the GPL and its little friend the LGPL..."
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File sharing goes before Supreme Court: High court to hear case between
online file swappers and studios
By Julie Hilden, FindLaw Columnist, CNN.com, February 16, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/16/hilden.fileswap/
"On March 29, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., a closely-watched
case involving peer-to-peer file sharing - a process in which people
send or receive music or movies over the Internet."
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New Movement Hits Universities: Get Legal Music
By Leslie Walker, Washington Post.com, March 17, 2005; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40242-2005Mar16.html?referrer=email
"Universities, caught in the crossfire between litigation-crazy record
companies and music-swapping students, are seeking to appease both by
rolling out a bevy of new, legal file-sharing services."
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File-sharing survey goes out to all undergraduate students
By Matt Zeidel, Pipe Dream, VOLUME LXVII, ISSUE 14 PUBLISHED MARCH 15,
2005
http://www.bupipedream.com/display_article.php?id=2109
"An e-mail survey to determine student interest in a commercial file
sharing service will be sent out to all Binghamton University
undergraduate students, Student Association and administration officials
said yesterday."