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Press Release: Consumer Group Raises Copyright, Censorship Concerns
about Google Print Library, Calls for Public Hearings
By /PRNewswire/, WASHINGTON, Oct. 25
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/1
0-25-2005/0004194054&EDATE=

"In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary
subcommittees overseeing intellectual property issues, the nation's
oldest consumer advocacy group raised concerns about a forthcoming
ambitious effort to catalogue the entire collections of four major
American libraries."
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Peer-to-peer technology that honours copyright law
By Derek Sooman, TechSpot.com, 24 Oct 2005
http://www.techspot.com/news/19174-peertopeer-technology-that-honours-co
pyright-law.html

"Bertelsmann AG, a media group, is to launch a music download service
which will, by its very nature, honour copyright law. The new P2P
system, named GNAB,..."
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Sweden convicts first file-sharer
BBC news, 25 October 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4376470.stm

"A Swedish court has meted out the country's first conviction for using
an online file-sharing network."
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Microsoft To Launch Online Book Search Effort
By KIRPTV.com, October 25, 2005
http://www.kirotv.com/news/5175006/detail.html

"SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. is launching an initiative to let people
search books and other published content online, but the company is
taking a conservative approach aimed at avoiding the legal tussles
facing rival Google Inc."
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Writers Side With Google in Scrap
By Joanna Glasner, Wired.com, Oct. 25, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69289,00.html?tw=wn_2bizhead

"Google's plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable
may be drawing ire from publishers and authors' advocates, but some
obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search engine's side
of the dispute -- arguing that the benefits of inclusion in the online
database outweigh the drawback"
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Disney backs anti-piracy technology for Oscar DVDs
By Bob Tourtellotte, Reuters.com, Oct 24, 2005
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-10-24T192220
Z_01_RID447386_RTRUKOC_0_US-DISNEY-ANTI-PIRACY.xml

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. on Monday plans to become the
first major Hollywood film distributor to back an anti-piracy DVD
technology that stirred controversy last year in advance of the
important Oscar race."
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Bertelsmann puts the copyright into p2p
By Kelly Ellis, PCPro.com, 24th October 2005
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/79118/bertelsmann-puts-the-copyright-into-p2
p.html

"Media group Bertelsmann AG is set to launch a music download service
which uses peer-to-peer (p2p) technology while honouring copyright law."
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Blog: Google's battle over library books
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, October 24, 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5907506.html

"Ten months ago, Google announced that it planned to scan, digitize and
make searchable the collections of five of the largest libraries in the
world. At first, it seemed like one of those nifty ideas that regularly
percolate out of the young search giant."
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Net pirates will face stiffer punishment
By Declan McCullagh , CNET News.com, October 20, 2005
http://news.com.com/Net+pirates+will+face+stiffer+punishment/2100-1028_3
-5905183.html?tag=alert

"Internet pirates with prerelease movies in their shared folders will
face stiffer federal penalties starting Monday."
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Publishers Charge Google With Copyright Violation
By Niladri Sekhar Nath, All Headline News, October 20, 2005
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000631149

"San Francisco, CA (AHN) - Five leading publishers files suit against
Google Inc. for preventing plans to scan copyrighted works without
permission. They also want to disrupt Google's plan to make many of the
world's great books searchable online."