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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Politicos call for music copyright reform
By Anne Broached, CNET News.com, September 13, 2005
http://news.com.com/Politicos+call+for+music+copyright+reform/2100-1028_
3-5863072.html?tag=alert

"WASHINGTON--Legal music-download services won't be able to compete
fully with their free- and illegal-download counterparts until copyright
law changes, a Virginia congressman said Tuesday."
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TiVo copy protection bug irks users
By Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com, September 13, 2005
http://news.com.com/TiVo+copy+protection+bug+irks+users/2100-1041_3-5863
529.html?tag=alert

"A bug in the latest version of TiVo's operating system has some users
concerned that the service's content protection mechanisms--supposedly
intended solely for pay-per-view and video-on-demand content--may
someday be applied to broadcast television programming."
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National Archives Picks Lockheed Martin to Develop $308-Million Digital
Repository for U.S. Government
By VINCENT KIERNAN, Chronicle.com, September 9, 2005
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005090901t.htm
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"The National Archives and Records Administration has awarded a
$308-million contract to the Lockheed Martin Corporation to build a
computer system to preserve the federal government's electronic
records."
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Patent bill would make sweeping changes
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, September 13, 2005
http://news.com.com/Legislating+creativity--feds+plan+patent+reform/2009
-1008-5860582.html?tag=nl.e703

"When Gordon Gould was a graduate student at Columbia University in
1957, he sketched out the concept of a concentrated beam of light
amplified in a gas-filled chamber and coined the term "laser" to
describe it."