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The Battle Between Tinseltown and Techville
By Drew Clark, Washington Post.com, April 10, 2005; Page B04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39168-2005Apr9.html
"Creativity and innovation aren't qualities you'd ordinarily expect to
be at war with one another. Both involve a type of inventiveness, a
vision of something new, a stepping outside of mental boundaries. Yet in
America's courts, the companies that rely most on creativity and
innovation are at each other's throats."
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Piercing the peertopeer myths: An examination of the Canadian
experience by Michael Geist
By Michael Geist, First Monday, volume 10, number 4 (April 2005),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/geist/index.html
"Canada is in the midst of a contentious copyright reform with advocates
for stronger copyright protection maintaining that the Internet has led
to widespread infringement that has harmed the economic interests of
Canadian artists. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has
emerged as the leading proponent of copyright reform, claiming that
peertopeer file sharing has led to billions in lost sales in Canada."
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Creative licence
By Kate Bulkley, The Guardian, April 11, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1456488,00.html
"The word archive has an old, dusty feel about it; there seems nothing
very dynamic, nothing much to stimulate young people or spark anyone's
creativity. But in the world of UK television and film, the impact of
archive material is about to take on a new dimension."
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Rethinking the DMCA
By Charles Cooper , CNET.com, April 8, 2005
http://news.com.com/Rethinking+the+DMCA/2010-1030_3-5659364.html?tag=alert
"Time and again since its 1998 passage, the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act has proved to be one of the worst-ever pieces of technology
legislation."
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Extending an olive branch to file swappers?
By John Borland, CNET News.com, April 5, 2005
http://news.com.com/Extending+an+olive+branch+to+file+swappers/2008-1082-5653861.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703
"For the last year, a handful of companies has offered college students
cut-rate music subscriptions on campus, looking to wean them from the
free file-swapping networks. "
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Students, industry reps talk about downloads
By ANDREA JONES, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 04/06/05
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/0405/06files.html
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"If you ask an average college kid if he would walk into a music store,
stuff a favorite CD in his pants and walk out without paying, the
answer, most likely, is no. But ask the same student whether he's ever
illegally downloaded music from the Internet well, that's another story."
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Lessig preaches openness to Flash faithful
By Paul Festa, CNET News.com, April 6, 2005
http://news.com.com/Lessig+preaches+openness+to+Flash+faithful/2100-1032_3-5657975.html?tag=alert
"SAN FRANCISCO--Copyright reformer Lawrence Lessig gave Flash developers
an earful Wednesday about how their platform of choice is perceived in
the free-software world."
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A Law Mandating Music File Compatibility?
By Roy Mark, Internet News, April 6, 2005
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3495791
"WASHINGTON -- Congress is toying with the idea of mandating one
standard for all online music platforms."
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Legal Battle Brews Over Texts on Electronic Reserve at U. of California
Libraries
By SCOTT CARLSON, Chronicle.com, April 7, 2005
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005040701t.htm
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(Contributed by Stephen Davies)
"Publishers are objecting to an electronic reserve system at the
University of California in which libraries scan portions of books and
journals and make them available free online to students."
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An amusing tale.
Visiting the Pirate's Lair: Where to buy fake DVDs in Shanghai? Try a
fake restaurant.
By Henry Blodget, Slate.msn.com, ****April 1, 2005 ****
http://slate.msn.com/id/2115921
"The twentysomething American who offered to show me around Shanghai
Monday evening was battling a cold, so, at a banquette table at Sasha's,
a converted 1920s mansion near Sun Yat Sen's house, he stuck to tea. "