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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Perspective:  File-sharing crackdown rages worldwide
By Eric J. Sinrod, CNET.com, November 23, 2005
http://news.com.com/File-sharing+crackdown+rages+worldwide/2010-1027_3-5
967679.html?tag=alert

"Lest there be any doubt, the recording industry is quite serious about
cracking down on what it perceives to be illegal file-sharing, in the
United States and other countries as well."
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Perspective:  Why IP owners should worry
By Melanie Wyne, CNET.com, November 23, 2005
http://news.com.com/Why+IP+owners+should+worry/2010-1014_3-5967045.html?
tag=alert

"Whatever you may think about the recently proposed OpenDocument Format
policy switch for Massachusetts' executive agencies, one thing can be
agreed on by all sides: It's a big deal."
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Sony Spyware Debacle Heats Up Copyright War
By John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant, November 24, 2005
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-moran1124.artnov24,0,3067570.column?c
oll=hc-utility-business

"You might think the music industry would be satisfied with the progress
of its anti-piracy efforts."
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Lawsuits, Copyright Pilfering Allegations Added to Sony CD Snafu
By John P. Mello Jr. TechNewsWorld, 11/22/05
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/47491.html

""Offering replacement CDs and MP3 downloads are nice, but they should
also be offering refunds so consumers have that option if they want it,"
Corynne Mcsherry, an EFF staff attorney, told TechNewsWorld. "And that's
just in respect to XCP," she added. "They haven't offered to recall or
replace the MediaMax CDs at all."
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Complete Coverage By CNET.com:
http://news.com.com/Sonys+rootkit+fiasco/2009-1029-5961248.html?part=dht
&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703
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Off the shelf and on to the web
By Quinn Norton, The Guardian, November 23, 2005
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/nov232005/cyberspace16125620051
122.asp

"The Open Library will soon allow people to print out genuine-looking
pages from a vast online archive."
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Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle
By SAUL HANSELL, New York Times, November 20, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/business/yourmoney/20fanning.html

"SHAWN FANNING turns 25 on Tuesday, and it's been a very long seven
years since he wrote a little computer program that let him trade
electronic music files with his dorm mates at Northeastern University in
Boston, where he was a freshman."
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World Digital Library Planned: Library of Congress Envisions Collection
To Bridge Cultures
By David A. Vise, Washington Post, ovember 22, 2005; Page A27
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR200511
2101428.html

"The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the
World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts,
maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of
other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by
anyone, anywhere with Internet access."
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Google Gift to Digital Library
By KATIE HAFNER, New York Times, November 22, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/technology/22google.html

"The Library of Congress will announce today a $3 million gift from
Google to help the library begin building a World Digital Library, a
project that aims to digitize and place on the Web significant primary
materials from national libraries and other institutions worldwide."
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At Harvard, a Man, a Plan and a Scanner
By KATIE HAFNER, New York Times, November 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/21harvard.html

"Twenty years ago, when Sidney Verba became director of the Harvard
University Library, he thought there was a good chance he would enjoy a
placid transition into retirement."
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University Network i2hub Shut Down
By Associated Press, Top Tech News. November 21, 2005
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=39600

"I2hub was one of seven firms behind file-sharing software who received
cease-and-desist letters from the Recording Industry Association of
America in September accusing them of enabling computer users to
distribute copyright-protected music without permission online."
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Copyright isn't the last word
By Elaine Dutka, LA Times, November 18, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/cl-et-fairuse18nov18,1,702
7641.story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter&ctrack=1&cset=true

"An emerging "fair use" doctrine lets makers of documentary films use
some material without obtaining a license."
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Politicos wary of changes to copyright law
By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, November 16, 2005
http://news.com.com/Politicos+wary+of+changes+to+copyright+law/2100-1030
_3-5956328.html?tag=alert

"WASHINGTON--Politicians on Wednesday voiced reluctance to rewrite laws
and allow people to bypass, in the name of fair use, copy-protection
mechanisms on goods such as CDs and software."
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BLOG: Texas Congressman Seeks to Balance Copyright Protections,
Consumers Rights
By LinuxElectrons
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20051117195947556

"WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement yesterday
as part of an Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
hearing entitled, "Fair Use: It's Effects on Consumers and Industry."
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Federal copyright lawsuits target two Massachusetts copy shops
By Adam Gorlick, Associated Press, November 15, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/11/15/feder
al_copyright_lawsuits_target_two_massachusetts_copy_shops/?p1=MEWell_Pos
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"SPRINGFIELD, Mass. --A group of publishers is suing two printing
companies for allegedly copying materials without permission for
teachers at the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern
University."
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Roundtable helps explain copyrights - and wrong
By Carlos Bergfeld, Daily Toreador, November 16, 2005
http://www.dailytoreador.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/11/16/437ab1612e7b
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"Students may not realize it, but if they have ever written or typed an
original work for class or even on a blog, they have produced a
copyrighted work."