In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

----------------------------------------------------

Today: BCLT & Copyright Office Co-Host Public Hearing on Orphan Works
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/

"Update: Transcripts and audio of the event will be posted online as
soon as they are available."
-----

CALIFORNIA: Man Is Charged Under New U.S. Film Piracy Law
>From Bloomberg News, LATimes.com, August 5, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-piracy5aug05,1,4381689.story?coll=
la-headlines-business

"A Missouri man has been accused in an indictment of making video
recordings of movies in theaters, the first time someone has been
charged under a new federal law outlawing the practice."
------

Missouri teen accused of pirating movies
By Pete Carey, Mercury News, Aug. 05, 2005
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/12309420.htm

"A Missouri teenager is the latest to be indicted by a San Jose federal
grand jury in a string of prosecutions involving members of a secretive
computer-piracy group."
------

Freenet: Anonymous P2P by Year's End
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews, August 4, 2005
http://www.betanews.com/article/Freenet_Anonymous_P2P_by_Years_End/11231
73230

"A group of developers on Wednesday said a new software tool that will
allow for the swapping of files over the Internet would be available
before the end of the year.
-----

The college library of tomorrow
By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, August 3, 2005
http://news.com.com/The+college+library+of+tomorrow/2100-1025_3-5817291.
html?tag=alert

"Last December, Google started on a wildly ambitious and somewhat
controversial plan to digitize the collections of some of the world's
largest university and public libraries in an effort to make
hard-to-find books accessible by the click of a mouse."
-----

Irish music-swappers admit liability
By Matthew Clark, Electric News.net, August 04 2005
http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9628671

"Eight people in Ireland have agreed to pay damages of up to EUR6,000
after settling out of court in the country's first batch of music
uploading court cases".
------

Comment: File sharing is peerless
By Paul Trotter, PCPro.com, 2nd August 2005
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/75799/comment-file-sharing-is-peerless.html

"The only time I was caught for speeding, it never occurred to me to
plead guilty on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Reaching over
70mph was quite an achievement in itself at a time when I had a car fit
for a student."
------

New File-Sharing Techniques Are Likely to Test Court Decision
By JOHN MARKOFF, NYTimes.com, August 1, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/technology/01file.html?

"SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 - Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory
on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge
of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents."
-----

Copyright lobbyists strike again
By Declan McCullagh, News.com, August 1, 2005
http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5811025.html

"Hollywood and large U.S. software companies chalked up another crucial
yet little-noticed victory last week with the final approval of the
Central American Free Trade Agreement."
-----

Download Festival to make U.S. debut
By Michelle Meyers, CNET News.com, July 30, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5811119.html

"A sort of Woodstock for the technological age, the Download Festival is
more than a standalone music event."