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Recording and Movie Industries Plan to Sue File Swappers Who Use
Internet2 Network
By BROCK READ, Chronicle.com, April 13, 2005
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005041302t.htm
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"As their lawsuits against campus file-swappers pile up, record
companies and movie studios are turning their attention to a new batch
of suspected pirates: those who trade songs and films on Internet2's
high-speed research network."
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Music Industry Sues Hundreds Of File Sharers At Colleges
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post, April 13, 2005; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48300-2005Apr12.html?referrer=email
"The entertainment industry's effort to sue music and movie pirates into
submission is reaching into the Internet's next generation with the
filing of several hundred lawsuits yesterday against college students
using a faster version of the Web called Internet2."
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Steal This Song
By Robert MacMillan, washingtonpost.com, April 13, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49361-2005Apr13.html?referrer=email
"The entertainment industry's decision to sue hundreds of college
students for using the super-fast Internet 2 network to steal music and
movies couldn't have come at a worse time."
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Actors' union shouts 'cut' on digital film
By Seamus Byrne, The Age.com, April 12, 2005
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Outsourcing/Actors-union-shouts-cut/2005/04/11/1113071894581.html?oneclick=true
"The Australian actors union is blocking a world-first remixable film
project, and possibly forcing the production offshore, out of fear that
footage of actors could be misused."
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Supreme Court Standards for Peer-to-Peer and Beyond
Anush Yegyazarian, PC World, April 12, 2005
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120376,00.asp
"The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will
have important implications for future technology development."
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Copyright Reform to Free Orphans?
By Katie Dean, Wired.com, Apr. 12, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67139,00.html
"Veteran filmmaker Robert Goodman is working on a documentary about the
first pop culture phenomenon of the 20th century: American picture
postcards. But securing permission to use many of these works -- photos
and illustrations that are around 100 years old -- is an impossible
task, as many of the original owners are unknown or dead, or the
publishing companies no longer exist."
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Open-Access Journals Flourish
By Randy Dotinga, Wired.com, Apr. 11, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67174,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
"Despite concerns about the ethics of pay-for-play publishing, the
number of open-access academic and medical journals is growing at a fast
clip."
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Most file-sharers dont fear penalties: A Daily poll found 65 percent of
University students are unafraid of the consequences.
By Kori Koch, Minnesota Daily, April 7, 2005
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/04/07/64046
"Despite the music industrys efforts to target and prosecute those who
illegally share and download copyrighted material, it appears most
University students are still not concerned with getting caught."
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Copyright Policy: Dangerous copyright proposals hit medical community hard
By Michael Geist, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/8/989?etoc
"If one were to ask the average physician to name imminent policy
reforms relevant to the medical profession, copyright law is not among
those topics most likely to leap to mind. This may soon change: the
Canadian government is contemplating dramatic copyright reforms that
could have a detrimental impact on medical research and education. If
the medical community fails to speak up on these issues, it will do so
at its own peril."
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Testing Copyright Limits: Grouper's creators say it's not like other
file-sharing programs. The entertainment industry isn't so sure.
By Jon Healey, LATimes, April 12 2005
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-grouper12apr12,1,6948073.story?coll=la-headlines-technology&ctrack=1&cset=true
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"Jennifer Urban, a law professor at USC, wanted to watch home movies of
her 7-month-old nephew Peter in England, but nothing seemed to work. The
videotapes and DVDs were in the wrong format, and the digital movie
files were too big to e-mail."
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Court rules common law protects recordings made before U.S. copyright law
By MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press Writer, April
http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/04-05-2005/8075001404a79506.html
"(AP) - ALBANY, New York-New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that
common law protects a record company's copyright on recordings made
prior to 1972 - a decision that could have industry wide ramifications
for everything from Bach to the Beatles."