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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Weighing Webcasters' Rights to Content
By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post, November 3, 2005; Page D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR200511
0203187.html

"Battles over illegal sharing of music online are so last summer. The
hot fight now is over copying of video from television or the Internet
that generally has been considered freely available to the public."
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Google book scanning still on hold
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, November 3, 2005
http://news.com.com/Google+book+scanning+still+on+hold/2100-1025_3-59319
64.html

"Google plans to resume its library book scanning "soon," a Google
spokesman said Thursday. The company had halted the scanning in August
to allow copyright holders time to contact Google and opt out."
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Congress divided on broadcast flag plan
By Anne Broache, CNET News.com,  November 3, 2005
http://news.com.com/Congress+divided+on+broadcast+flag+plan/2100-1028_3-
5931730.html

"WASHINGTON--A plan in Congress to revive the "broadcast flag," a
controversial form of copy-prevention technology for digital TV
broadcasts, drew a mixed response from politicians on Thursday."
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Amazon, Random House throw book at Google
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, November 3, 2005
http://news.com.com/Amazon%2C+Random+House+throw+book+at+Google/2100-102
5_3-5931569.html

"update As Google put thousands of public domain books online Thursday,
Amazon.com responded by announcing plans to allow people to read books
on the Web."
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Canada: It's the authors' turn to sing the copyright blues
By RUSSELL SMITH, Globe and Mail Update, November 03, 2005
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPag
e?user_URL=http://www.globetechnology.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.2005
1103.gtrussell03%2FBNStory%2FTechnology%2F&ord=1131113879193&brand=globe
technology&force_login=true
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"Is the publishing industry about to face the same sudden decline in
sales that the music industry faced when music went digital? Are writers
about to lose all copyright for their books?"
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Speaking Out: Copyright shouldn't silence creativity
By GAVIN BAKER, Alligator Online, November 3, 2005
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/051103column.php

"I was unhappy to see Wednesday's article claiming note-taking services
may violate professors' copyrights."
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Google's database now has library text
By EDWARD WYATT, India Express, November 04, 2005
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=81267

"Google has said that it had completed the first major expansion of its
Google print database of searchable books, adding the full text of more
than 10,000 works that are no longer under copyright, culled from the
collections of four major research libraries."
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Google Adds First Scanned Library Books to Search Index, and Says
Copyrighted Works Will Follow
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle.com, November 3, 2005
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/11/2005110301t.htm

"oogle has added the initial batch of scanned library books to a
searchable index, the first fruits of the company's controversial
partnership with five major research libraries.
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Microsoft in deal with British Library
By Jon Boone and Maija Palmer, FT.com., November 3 2005
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b977c208-4cb3-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html

"Microsoft on Thursday announced a "strategic partnership" with the
British Library that will allow the software group to digitise 25m pages
of content - the equivalent of 100,000 books."
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Peer-to-Peer Goes Legit
 By Niall McKay, Nov. 03, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69457,00.html

"The old-school peer-to-peer network iMesh has left the murky world of
illegal file swapping behind with the launch of a new service that
enables users to share up to 2 million tracks from the four major record
labels."
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iMesh's music filters skipping a bit
By John Borland, CNET News.com, November 2, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5929468.html

"The new iMesh, launched last week as the first record label-approved
file-swapping service, has a Led Zeppelin problem."
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Study of Sony Anti-Piracy Software Triggers Uproar
By Brian Krebs, washingtonpost.com, November 2, 2005; 6:50 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR200511
0202362.html

"Irate music fans who posted to dozens of online blogs vowing to never
again buy Sony CDs as long as the company keeps using a suddenly
beleaguered anti-piracy software program may find that their outbursts
have been partially rewarded today."