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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Blog: Victim sues RIAA under RICO Act
By p2p news / p2pnet, 2nd October 2005
http://p2pnet.net/story/6445

"I just read your 'We're Not Taking It Anymore' Club article on
p2pnet.net," emailed Anna. "I've never been sued by RIAA, but I do feel
strongly against their actions."
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Yahoo to digitize public domain books
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, October 2, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5887374.html

"Yahoo is working with the Internet Archive, the University of
California and others on a project to digitize books in archives around
the world and make them searchable through any Web search engine and
downloadable for free, the group was set to announce Monday."
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Commission unveils plans for European digital libraries
Brussels, 30 September 2005
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1202&f
ormat=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en

"The European Commission today unveiled its strategy to make Europe's
written and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet. Turning
Europe's historic and cultural heritage into digital content will make
it usable for European citizens for their studies, work or leisure and
will give innovators, artists and entrepreneurs the raw material that
they need. The Commission proposes a concerted drive by EU Member States
to digitise, preserve, and make this heritage available to all."
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Coming clean on copyright
By MICHAEL GEIST, Toronto Star.com, Oct. 3, 2005
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1128289810524&call_pageid=968350072197&col=96
9048863851&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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"With the House of Commons now back to business, a parliamentary
committee may be formed this week to conduct hearings on Bill C-60, the
federal government's copyright reform package."
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June Supreme Court Ruling Taking Toll on Music Sharing
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post, October 1, 2005; Page D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/30/AR200509
3001681.html

"A year ago, a Web site called eDonkey was an arch-nemesis of the music
industry. Like other sites with names like Kazaa and LimeWire and the
original Napster back in 1999, eDonkey allowed users to swap songs for
free over the Internet. Sharing, users said. Stealing, the music
industry replied."
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OPED: Licensing will solve the schools' copyright challenge
By Christopher Moore, The Hill Times, October 3rd, 2005
http://hilltimes.com/members/login.php?fail=2&destination=/html/index.ph
p?display=story&full_path=/2005/october/3/moore/&c=2
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"That sleepy group, the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada, is
about to take that perennial snoozer, copyright law, and try to drive it
into the headlines. Parliament is about to take up Bill C-60's
amendments to the Copyright Act. Watch out for scary headlines like:
"School kids banned by the internet by Canadian law, educators say."
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Blog: Paying protection money to Access Copyright.
By Russell McOrmond, Digital-Copyright, /10/02/o5
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1085

"The opinion piece by Chrisopher Moore of Access Copyright (Hill Times,
Oct 3, 2005, P13) should sound familiar: pay us money and we will remove
the threat that we represent."
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Record industry sues 757 for file-sharing
By Reuters, CNET.com, September 30, 2005
http://news.com.com/Record+industry+sues+757+for+file-sharing/2110-1027_
3-5886206.html?tag=alert

"LOS ANGELES--A trade group representing the U.S. music industry said on
Thursday it filed lawsuits against 757 people it claims used online
file-sharing networks to illegally trade in copyrighted songs."
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CRIA's file-sharing claim 'wrong headed,' group says
By JACK KAPICA, Globe and Mail Update, September 30, 2005
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050930.gtkapicasep3
0/BNStory/Technology/

"The Canadian Recording Industry Association's claim that file-sharing
is hurting the industry is "wrong-headed," says a legal group
established by the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law."
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Recording industry sues 64 users of Internet2 academic network
 By Associated Press, siliconvalley.com, Sep. 29, 2005
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/12774870.h
tm

"LOS ANGELES (AP) - Record companies have filed another volley of
copyright infringement lawsuits against computer users on the high-speed
Internet2 network, which links universities researching the
next-generation Internet."
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BitTorrent Lands $8.75 Million in Funding
By The Associated Press, Washington Post.com, September 28, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR200509
2802284.html

"LOS ANGELES -- The creator of the popular online file-swapping software
BitTorrent has lined up $8.75 million in financing from a venture
capital firm in a bid to build his software into a commercial
distribution tool for media companies."
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Canada labels launch copyright campaign
By Reuters, September 29, 2005
http://news.com.com/Canada+labels+launch+copyright+campaign/2100-1027_3-
5885789.html?tag=alert

"Canadian record companies plan intense lobbying ahead of parliamentary
hearings this fall into new Copyright Act legislation, which they argue
should prevent file-swapping on the Internet."
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Music firms launch Canada copyright lobbying drive
By Susan Taylor, Metro News, September 29, 2005
http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_entertainment.asp?id=98783

"OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian record companies plan intense lobbying
ahead of parliamentary hearings this fall into new Copyright Act
legislation, which they argue should prevent file-swapping on the
Internet, an activity that costs the music industry tens of millions of
dollars a year.
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Congress to legislate file swapping?
By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, September 28, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5884824.html

"WASHINGTON--A California senator has suggested that because
file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be
shut down."
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Op-Ed: Search and Rescue
By TIM O'REILLY, New York Times, September 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/opinion/28oreilly.html
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"AUTHORS struggle, mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity.
According to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks sales from major
booksellers, only 2 percent of the 1.2 million unique titles sold in
2004 had sales of more than 5,000 copies. Against this backdrop, the
recent Authors Guild suit against the Google Library Project is
poignantly wrongheaded."
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Statements available:
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on
"Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World" for
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate
Dirksen Office Building.  By order of the Chairman.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1624
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No Need for Piracy Bill, Industry Says
By JENNIFER C. KERR, The Associated Press, September 28, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR200509
2801689.html

"WASHINGTON -- The recording industry and copyright experts urged
Congress on Wednesday not to intervene with legislation to curb online
piracy of music or movies after a recent ruling from the Supreme Court."
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Theater piracy law snags first victim
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, September 27, 2005,
http://beta.news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5884251.html

"A new federal law aimed at discouraging camcorder-equipped movie
pirates has snared its first catch.
Federal prosecutors said Curtis Salisbury, 19, pleaded guilty on Monday
to using a camcorder to record movies in a St. Louis, Mo., theater and
distributing his recording on the Internet."
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Indigenous People's Folklore and Copyright Law
By Dieter Dambiec, Media Monitors, September 27 2005
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/20295

"A system of protection should encourage indigenous peoples'
expectations of respect for their creative works, particularly from
those outside the indigenous culture. This means that folklore should be
protected from debasement, distortion and consequent loss of cultural
integrity due to inappropriate uses which would be offensive to the
community from which it originates or prejudicial to the artist's or
tribe's honour or reputation."