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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Last waltz for Grokster

By John Borland, CNET News.com, November 7, 2005

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5937832.html



"update File-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its
peer-to-peer software, following a $50 million legal settlement announced
Monday with Hollywood studios and record labels.

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More Coverage:

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/11/07/grokster/index.php
<https://webmail.umuc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.macworld.com/n
ews/2005/11/07/grokster/index.php>

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Google Print Now Publishing Out-Of-Copyright Works Gained Through Library
Scanning Program

By Danny Sullivan <http://searchenginewatch.com/about/article.php/2155651> ,
Search Engine Watch, Nov. 7, 2005

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051107-072254



"Google Print <http://print.google.com/>  is now publishing the full-text of
public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired through the Google
Print library scanning project. The official Google Blog provides more
information and examples of finding some of this material in this post
<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/preserving-public-domain-books.html>
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File sharing slows down SRU residential network

By: Travis Pickens
<http://www.theonlinerocket.com/user/index.cfm?event=displayAuthorProfile&aut
horid=2091130> , The Online Rocket/ Slippery Rock University,  11/4/05

http://www.theonlinerocket.com/media/paper601/news/2005/11/04/News/File-Shari
ng.Slows.Down.Sru.Residential.Network-1045907.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=ww
w.theonlinerocket.com



"This October, an anonymous alumnus of Stanford University donated an
undisclosed amount of money to the school for the purpose of allowing students
to download music for free from Yahoo.com."

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Is it time for copyright law to change?
By Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian,  November 7, 2005

http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,16488,1636058,00.html



This is going to sound counterintuitive, but Winnie the Pooh has a lot to tell
us about the state of human intellectual endeavour."

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Jail ordered for file-sharer

By Keith Bradsher
<http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=By%20Keith%20Bradsher&sort=swish
rank>  The New York Times,  NOVEMBER 8, 2005

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/07/business/bit.php



HONG KONG
<http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=HONG%20KONG&sort=swishrank>  In a
case likely to draw attention around the world from people who use the
Internet to share movies and music recordings, a judge in Hong Kong sentenced
a resident on Monday to three months in jail for using an Internet
file-sharing system to make three Hollywood movies available for others to
download free"

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Consumers sing copy-protection blues

By Todd Martens and Brian Garrity , Reuters.com, Nov 4, 2005

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-11-05T043623Z_01_
FOR516536_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOFTWARE.xml



"LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Complaints continue to mount regarding a
controversial CD copy-protection initiative by Sony BMG Music Entertainment."

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Movie industry offers deal in download case

By Associated Press, Silicon Valley.com, Nov. 04, 2005

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/13081830.htm


"RACINE, Wis. - A man sued by the film industry after his teen grandson
downloaded four movies on the family's computer has been offered a chance to
settle the case by paying $4,000 in installments."

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Blog: Public Knowledge Warns of 'Federal Copyright Commission'

By: ByteEnable <http://www.linuxelectrons.com/users.php?mode=profile&uid=6> ,
Linux Electons,  November 05 2005

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20051104233014701



" <http://www.linuxelectrons.com/index.php/General> Public Knowledge President
Gigi B. Sohn said yesterday that draft legislation to give the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) authority to control the distribution of
digital content would unwisely expand the FCC's power, thwart technological
innovation and hurt consumers.

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Microsoft to digitize 100,000 books

By Business Digest, Seattle Times, November 5, 2005

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002605294_bizbriefs
05.html



"Microsoft said Friday it has signed a deal to scan 100,000 books from the
British Library and put them online. Readers will be able to search through
around 25 million pages of material next year without having to visit the
library in London or pay any fee."

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More:

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+hits+the+books+in+Britain/2100-1025_3-5933033.h
tml?tag=alert

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Amazon to sell digital books in Google challenge

By Alexandria Sage, Reuters.com, Nov 3, 2005

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-11-04T025058Z_01_
KRA410221_RTRUKOC_0_US-RETAIL-AMAZONCOM.xml



"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com on Thursday said it would let readers buy
digital pages, chapters and entire books through two plans that present a
broad challenge to a controversial strategy of Google Inc."