In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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High Stakes Sharing: The RIAA's legal actions will not have the desired
effect
By THE CRIMSON STAFF, Harvard Crimson, October 11, 2005
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=508987

"The name Yagan is synonymous with entrepreneurship at Harvard. Current
Currierite Daniel F. Yagan '06 is one of the founders of Redline Textbooks, an
online textbook vendor with a loyal following among Harvard's budget-conscious
students. Yagan recently diversified Redline's textbook offerings and expanded
its stock. His older brother, however, has been less fortunate."
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Authors' Second Chance: Google's Ambitious Plan to Put Books Online
Offers Authors, Publishers New Lease on Life
By JASON FRY, WSJ.com, October 10, 2005
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112793789066654830-Vjbpkz_NLQ83hrpULtC
y0XXHgbA_20061010.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

"It's become one of the tech world's most-popular parlor games: digging up
examples of how Google, whose founders' letter identified "Don't be evil" as a
core value, is busy being evil. One of the more-recent pieces of evidence
offered is the Google Print project, a plan that's breathtaking in its
ambition -- and, some say, in its total disregard for copyright laws."
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We've Not Seen the Last of The Copyright Class Action
By Carole Ebbinghouse, Information Today, October 10, 2005
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb051010-1.shtml

"The case derived from the Tasini lawsuit (New York Times Co., Inc., et al. v.
Tasini et al.) has been variously called The Copyright Class Action and In Re
Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation (MDL No. 1379)."
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Defending Google's licence to print
By Bill Thompson, BBC News, 10 October 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4320642.stm

"Google's plan to create an index of millions of books has got them into legal
trouble, but technology analyst Bill Thompson thinks they should press on
despite the lawsuits."
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Press Release: Copyright Clearance Center Integrates Copyright Permissions
Within Blackboard; Addresses Growing Focus on Copyright Compliance at Colleges
and Universities; Delivers Permissions Quickly and Easily to Faculty and
Staff
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view
&newsId=20051011005029&newsLang=en

"DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2005--Copyright Clearance Center
(CCC), the world's premier provider of copyright licensing solutions, has
announced the integration of its solutions within the Blackboard Learning
System(TM), a leading course management system used by higher education and
K-12 schools."
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Easing the Copyright Challenge
By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed.com, Oct. 11
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/11/copyright

"Copyright approval of classroom materials, particularly for online courses,
is a major issue for colleges: Many faculty members (if they think about it at
all) view it as a hassle, and college lawyers and academic technologists at
some campuses lay awake at night worrying about lawsuits from publishers
challenging their professors' failure to seek permission for works they've
used."
(Contributed by Doug Black, Listmember)
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Finnish Government Proposes Minor Changes to the Copyright Law
By The eFinland Weblog, October, 2005
http://e.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=42255

"Helsinki, 11- An EU Directive from 2001 requires changes in legislation.
According to the Directive, an artist's resale compensation applies to all
resales in which works of art are resold by an art-market professional."
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Blog: Headline links can be dangerous in Japan
October 10, 2005 2:57 PM PDT
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5892643.html

"U.S. courts, by design or default, have generally taken a laissez-faire
approach to the digital republication of printed works as long as it adheres
to longstanding brick-and-mortar copyright law."
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Japan's Music Industry Wants Fee on Sales of Latest Digital Players
By MARTIN FACKLER, New York Times.com, October 10, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/technolog
y/10ipod.html&OP=61335cc8Q2FQ25@XqQ25Q22L)Q2AQ7BLLQ24sQ25sffAQ25.fQ25.fQ25Q24
X)7eLQ20L_ZQ25.fbQ60LQ22(7Q24BQ20
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"Japan's music industry has asked the government to charge a royalty, to be
added to the retail price of portable digital music players."
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Sweden: The first trial against a person accused of file-sharing begins here
Tuesday.
By SR International, Radio Sweden
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054
&Nyheter=&artikel=710807

"The new law against downloading copyrighted material went into effect here on
July 1st. This first case is against a 28 year old from Vdsteres, west of
Stockholm, accused of making a popular Swedish film available over the
Internet through a file-sharing program."