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Court axes FCC's anti-piracy rules
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/11589253.htm
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"A federal appeals court Friday threw out controversial regulations that
would require the coming generation of digital televisions, DVD
recorders and personal computers to contain anti-piracy technology."
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Felten leads file-sharing discussion
By Tom Senn. Princetonian, May 9, 2005
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/05/09/news/12884.shtml
"Those who engage in copyright infringement and the businesses that
profit from it must be held legally responsible for their actions,
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) director of legal affairs
Dean Garfield '95 said during a debate on file-sharing Friday afternoon."
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Web law library adds DCUJL to offerings
By Stuart A. Reid, The Dartmouth Staff, Monday, May 9, 2005
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005050901030
"Law students around the world will be able to bolster their arguments
by citing Dartmouth students many years their junior after an online law
review website decided to include the Dartmouth College Undergraduate
Journal of Law in its database. The journal is the first and only
undergraduate law review to be included in the online law library ,-- a
considerable feat for a publication only three years old."
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Copyright Office seeks authors of 'orphan songs'
By Bill Holland, Reuters.com, May 6, 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID=8415451
"WASHINGTON (Billboard) - In late 1946, glamorous Savannah Churchill,
the Alicia Keys of her day, recorded the ballad "I Want to Be Loved (But
Only by You)" for Manor Records, a New Jersey-based independent label."
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Burning the Broadcast Flag
By Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post, May 9, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050900269.html
"The FCC's silly broadcast flag got the hook Friday courtesy of a panel
of federal judges. While this is something to celebrate, I discuss below
how the ruling doesn't mean the entertainment industry won't keep trying
to control how you use your entertainment hardware. Now, on to this
week's personal tech line-up..."
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New law gets gough on Internet pirates
By Associated Press, WWMT.com, May 6, 2005 - 10:26AM
http://wwmt.com/engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=16236&template=breakout_surfing.html
"WASHINGTON- Lawmakers are trying to protect copyrighted material like
movies and TV shows."
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Hackers crack Sony PSP discs: First step in making illegal copies of the
software
By Tom Sanders, vnunet.com 06 May 2005
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1162882
"A hacking group calling itself the 'Paradogs' has broken the copyright
protection on Sony's Playstation Portable"
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Mashboxx opens beta test scheme
By Tony Smith, The Register, 6th May 2005
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/06/mashboxx_snocap_beta/
"UK- Exclusive Snocap, Napster creator Shawn Fanning's attempt to build
a legal P2P music-sharing network, has signed major recording company EMI."
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MPAA warns University of file-sharing: Notification comes just weeks
after RIAA suits
By Tom Senn, Princetonian, May 6, 2005
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/05/06/news/12860.shtml
"Three weeks after the recording industry filed lawsuits against 25
University students, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
has launched its own salvo against illegal file-sharing on the Princeton
campus."
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Libraries cut many print publications: UCs conversion to online-only
databases made due to budget crisis
By Josh Blitstein, DAILY BRUIN, May 6, 2005
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=33208
"University of California libraries feeling the heat of the budget
crisis will cut collections in an effort not to burn holes in their
pockets. No information will be lost to UC students though, as long as
they have access to the Internet."
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OUP widens open access trial
By Richard Wray, The Guardian Unlimited, May 6, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1477423,00.html
"The drive to make scientific, medical and academic research more freely
available on the internet got a shot in the arm yesterday as Oxford
University Press widened its trial of open access publishing."