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Copyright is dead - long live quid pro quo
By PETER DEJAGER, Globe and Mail Update, May 24, 2005
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050512.gtdejagermay12/BNStory/Technology/
"Let's face facts, when it comes to digital files, copyright is dead.
Not because the idea copyright has no merit. A creator of a work has the
right to control, in any way they choose, the use of that work.
Copyright is dead because it is impossible, despite thousands of RIAA
lawsuits to the contrary, to enforce copyright laws in a digital world."
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Will the Future Bring Even More Important Copyright Issues Than The Ones
Raised by Online File-Swapping?: The Thorny Question of How to Define
Copyright for New Media
By JULIE HILDEN, Findlaw.com, May. 24, 2005
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20050524.html
"The issue of online file-sharing - or file-stealing, depending on your
point of view - has dominated discussions of Internet copyright law thus
far, and rightly so. As I discussed in a recent column, the stakes are
very high - and the Supreme Court is primed to finally address this
issue in the MGM v. Grokster case."
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Expert Meeting on Exceptions to Copyright Hosted by UNESCO This Week
By /noticias.info/
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=68835&src=0
"A meeting on exceptions to copyright, which will also address copyright
issues in the digital environment, will take place on 27 May 2005 at
UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. It is one of a series of French-German
meetings on copyright that UNESCO organizes in collaboration with the
Institut de recherche en propriiti intellectuelle Henri-Desbois and the
Max Planck Institut."
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Never too young for a copyright lesson
By Alorie Gilbert, CNET News.com, May 23, 2005
http://news.com.com/Never+too+young+for+a+copyright+lesson/2100-1027-5717670.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703
"Think schools are just scaring kids about drugs, sex and poor study
habits these days? Now you can put illegal file trading on the list."
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A Google Project Pains Publishers: The major presses are raising thorny
legal issues with the search giant's initiative to digitize the books of
the world's great libraries
By Burt Helm, Business Week, MAY 23, 2005
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/may2005/tc20050523_9472_tc024.htm?chan=tc&;
Google (GOOG ) can search an astonishing 8 billion Web pages. And yet,
that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the knowledge that's stored
in the world's libraries but not available online."
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Google's books online under fire
By Mark Gregory, BBC News, 24 May, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4576827.stm
"A US publishing organisation has accused Google of breaching copyright
rules through a plan to put university libraries online. "
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Music biz wary of copyright sharing movement
By Susan Butler, Reuters.com, May 20, 2005
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=industryNews&storyID=2005-05-21T002601Z_01_N20591559_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-MUSIC-COPYRIGHT-DC.XML
"NEW YORK (Billboard) - An innovative approach to sharing and licensing
copyrighted material is spreading around the globe, gathering millions
of creative works under its umbrella."
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Japan's 'Free Use' copyright
By Rik Lambers , p2pnet.net News
http://p2pnet.net/story/4910
"The Copyright Division of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs
(ACA) provides an nice overview of the 2003 and 2004 Law for the
Amendment of Japan's Copyright Law [PDF - thru Chosaq]. The overview
also mentions the copyright policy for building a "Nation Based on
Intellectual Property".
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UK: Copyright ruling 'deprives public of rare music'
By Louise Jury, The Independent, 20 May 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=639800
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"A small record label that has specialised in bringing neglected
classical composers to the public faces costs estimated at up to #1m
after losing a tortuous legal wrangle over copyright."
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Actor Freeman warns film industry of piracy threat
By Mike Collett-White, Reuters.com, May 19, 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8542052
"CANNES, France- With high-speed Internet connections on the upswing,
piracy could hit the movie industry as hard as it did the music
business, Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman warned."
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Canadian court deals setback to record labels
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, May 19, 2005
http://news.com.com/Canadian+court+deals+setback+to+record+labels/2100-1027_3-5714379.html?tag=alert
"A Canadian appeals court has rebuffed an attempt by the recording
industry to unmask 29 people accused of unlawfully sharing thousands of
music files."
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Justice minister threatens to ban CD "copy protection"
By The Local, 19th May 2005
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1457&date=20050519
"Sweden's justice minister, Thomas Bodstrvm, has called for record
companies to stop copy-protecting CDs. In a move which will stoke up the
country's increasingly heated copyright protection debate, Bodstrvm has
said that if the industry continues to put blocking technology on new
music CDs, the government will make it illegal."