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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Something you need cracked? Tell the Copyright Office
By Dela, After Dawn.com, 8 October 2005
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6912.cfm

"The U.S. Copyright Office is conducting a periodic review of
anti-cracking provisions set in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA), and is seeking feedback from the public on what you would like
to see cracked and why"
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Cases pit artists, copyright holders
By JOHN PETRICK, Knight Ridder News, October 9, 2005
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/09
/build/business/55-artists-copyrights.inc

"JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ever wondered what's kept Batman and Robin so
close? Artist Mark Chamberlain has."
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Academic Press and Prolific Author Tell Google to Remove Their Books
>From Its Scanning Project
By VINCENT KIERNAN, Chronicle.com, October 7, 2005
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005100701t.htm

"A well-known scholar and his publisher have demanded that Google
withdraw his books from the digital archive that the Internet-search
company is compiling from the holdings of five university and research
libraries."
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Libraries, please keep your books
By Robert Johnson, Christian Science Monitor, October 07, 2005 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p09s01-coop.html

"MEMPHIS, TENN. - Consider this odd juxtaposition: The literary world is
celebrating over talk show host Oprah Winfrey's announcement that her
wildly popular book club will again include contemporary authors."
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EU tackles online music copyright
'Multi-territorial licensing policy' seeks to boost download sales in
Europe
By Ken Young, vnunet.com 07 Oct 2005
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143438/eu-tackle-online-music

"The European Commission is to outline new plans for securing copyright
for suppliers of online music, according to a report in the Financial
Times."
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Amendments to copyright law could cost universities: Opposition,
education ministers calling for free educational use of copyright
material
By Nadya Bell, CUP Ottawa Bureau Chief
http://umanitoba.ca/manitoban/2005-2006/1005/807.amendments.to.copyright
.law.could.cost.universities.php

"OTTAWA (CUP) -- Universities could have to pay for students and
professors to use free Internet sites if an amendment to the copyright
act passes in the House of Commons."
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Here's a surefire way to stifle innovation
By Patrick Ross, CNet News.com, October 6, 2005
http://news.com.com/2010-1025-5889596.html?tag=tb

"During the Grokster debate, we frequently heard those opposed to the
content industry's position chant, "Don't stifle innovation!"
*
Blog: The value of HR-1201
Posted by: Willy Kreim
Posted on: October 7, 2005, 10:42 AM PDT
Story: Here's a surefire way to stifle innovation
http://news.com.com/5208-1025-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=10216&messageID=
74845&start=-1
<I>must not have their choices curtailed by misguided federal
legislation."
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US court won't enforce French copyright ruling
By OUT-LAW News, 07/10/2005
http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=6206

"A US federal court has ruled that an award of damages made by a French
court against the company behind a US website is in breach of the First
Amendment and therefore unenforceable, according to Law.com."
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Any DVDs, Games You Want Cracked?
 By Holly J. Wagner, Wired.com,  Oct. 07, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69115,00.html

"If there's some digital media you'd like to see cracked -- a
copy-protected DVD, say -- then now's the time to tell the U.S.
Copyright Office."
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Descriptive metadata for copyright status
By Karen Coyle, First Monday, volume 10, number 10 (October 2005),
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/coyle/index.html

"The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital
materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be
granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged
by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of
the item. Digital libraries can hold and provide access to many items
for which copyright status is the sole governor of use. This article
proposes a small set of descriptive data elements that should accompany
digital materials to inform potential users of the copyright status of
the item."
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Press Release: Drexel University's Music Program Gives Students Choice
of Music Services
For more information about Drexel University:
By Philip Terranova,  October 6, 2005
Vice President, University Relations
(215) 895-2613
http://www.drexel.edu/dateline/default_nik.pl?p=releaseview&of=1&f=20051
006-01

"Drexel University today unveiled its Drexel Music Choice Program
(DMCP), giving students the option to obtain music from either iTunes or
Napster. Drexel is the first university in Greater Philadelphia to offer
its students a music program built around having a choice of providers"
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Societies strike copyright deal
By Press Gazette, October 6, 2005
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/061005/societies_strike_copyright

"The first formal publisher/author agreement in the controversial area
of collective rights management has been concluded. The Publishers
Licensing Society and the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society have
agreed terms for a new five-year partnership."
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Blog: Colleges Should Be Sued In Google Book Project
by Preston Gralla, NETWORKING PIPELINE, October 06, 2005
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2005/10/colleges_should.
html

"Why have universities been let off the hook in the author suit against
Google for its unauthorized scanning of countless copyrighted books
without permission? After, all they're as much to blame as Google."
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Digital music sales surge amid broader decline
By Reuters, October 3, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5887586.html

"The music industry cheered a tripling of digital music sales in the
first half of 2005 that was spurred by mobile phone ring tones and
online services and offset persistent declines in overall sales."
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RIAA sued by victim: Hackers and racketeers
By Nick Farrell: Monday 03 October 2005
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26641

"A WOMAN who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for
file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking."