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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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University as Author?
By David Epstein, Insidehighered.com, August 8, 2005
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/08/kansas

"The Kansas Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Kansas Board of
Regents has to negotiate its intellectual property policy in the future,
or whether it can simply hand down a decree - even one that asserts
ownership of all faculty work."
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File-swap TV comes into focus
By John Borland, CNET News.com. August 8, 2005
http://news.com.com/File-swap+TV+comes+into+focus/2100-1025_3-5820988.ht
ml?tag=alert

"Jeff Clarke, president of San Francisco's KQED Public Broadcasting, is
a fan of Internet file swapping."
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Apocalyptic copyright epidemic
By Rik Lambers, p2pnet.net News View
http://p2pnet.net/story/5847

"I'm fascinated by research reports that cater to subjective interests
and promise doom or golden mountains if some sort of solution is (not)
implemented. The solution, or part thereof, is usually included in the
report, available at several hundreds or thousands of dollars."
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Journalism contest focuses on copyright protection issues
By International Journalist Network, Aug 08, 2005
http://www.ijnet.org/FE_Article/newsarticle.asp?UILang=1&CId=303283&CIdL
ang=1

"A computer software industry group, hoping to raise awareness about
illegal software piracy, is sponsoring a competition for Arab
journalists."
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Copyleft, copyright, and theft in digital media Part I (Prevention)
By Jay Savage, The Digital Photography Weblog, Aug 8, 2005
http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000380053060/

"Given the responses to last Monday's Flickr hack, I thought it was time
to talk a little about copyrights, digital images, theft, and
prevention. This is something we've begun to talk about here before, and
something many photographers think about quite a bit, and not without
reason."
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Teenager charged under movie piracy Act
By OUT-LAW News, 08/08/2005
http://www.out-law.com/page-5984

"A teenager has become the first person to be charged under a new US
copyright Act that targets the unauthorised recording of films in movie
theatres, and the distribution of pre-release copyrighted material."
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Storm clouds gather over podcasting
By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY, 8/4/2005
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-08-03-podcasting-usat_x.htm

"SAN FRANCISCO - At Seattle public radio station KEXP, there's a simple
procedure for evaluating new technology. "We just go ahead and do
stuff," says John Richards, the station's morning disc jockey."
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Copying levy hasn't worked well for anyone
By MICHAEL GEIST, Toronto Star, Aug. 8, 2005
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1123451410444&call_pageid=971794782442&col=97
1886476975&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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"The private copying system, which establishes a levy on recording media
such as blank CDs in return for the right to make personal,
non-commercial copies of music, has long ranked as one of the most
contentious aspects of Canadian copyright law."
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Recording industry won't target true fans: Court backs off on copied
music
By The Toronto Star.com, Aug. 7, 2005
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1123278613428&call_pageid=968332189003&col=96
8350116895&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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"Michael Geist has correctly drawn attention to an unintended
consequence of last week's Supreme Court of Canada ruling. It places
people who legally acquire music and then copy it to their hard drives
or portable devices in a legal grey zone. However, on behalf of the
Canadian Recording Industry Association and its major label members, I
can state that no action will be taken by CRIA against the "good guys."
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Blog: American U. to Switch Legal Downloading Services
August 05, 2005
http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/2005/08/american_u_to_s.html

"American University is waving goodbye to Ruckus, the music- and
movie-downloading service, but that doesn't mean the institution is
giving up altogether on legal file swapping."
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Europe Follows Grokster's Lead
By Bruce Gain, Wired.com, Aug. 05, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68418,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

"Little-noticed language in a European Union plan to crack down on
organized piracy could also make indirect copyright infringement a crime
across Europe, with implications similar to the recent MGM v. Grokster
U.S. Supreme Court ruling, experts say."
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The new threat to Hollywood: Darknets: PRIVATE, ENCRYPTED FILE-SHARING
NETWORKS SET TO GROW.
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Mercury News, Aug. 04, 2005
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12306819.htm

"Fresh from its victory in the Supreme Court Grokster case, Hollywood
faces a new Internet threat -- the rise of ``darknets,'' or private,
encrypted networks that allow the anonymous exchange of music, movies
and other digital files."
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Amazon.com preps digital music service
By John Borland, CNET News.com, August 4, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5819046.html

Ecommerce giant Amazon.com appears to be preparing a digital music
service to compete with Apple Computer's iTunes at last, according to a
job listing posted on a popular industry blog."