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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Week in review: Wikipedia's woes
By Steven Musil, CNET News.com, December 9, 2005
http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Wikipedias+woes/2100-1083_3-5988388.h
tml?tag=alert

"Wikipedia, the anyone-can-contribute online encyclopedia, has come
under fire for recent inaccuracies, raising ethical and legal
questions."
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Pirates stunting software growth
By Reuters, CNETNews.com, December 8, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5987127.html

"Software piracy, rampant and hampering economic growth, is increasingly
performed by organized groups regarded as legitimate businesses in some
countries, results of a survey revealed Thursday."
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Blog: Distance Learning and Interlibrary Loan: Broken Promises
By Online Rights Canada, Updated on December 7, 2005
http://www.onlinerights.ca/learn/distance_learning_n_libraries/

"Bill C-60 included several qualified exceptions intended to benefit
Canadians by addressing access to educational resources -- namely
distance learning and digital interlibrary loan -- via the Internet.
These socially valuable endeavours involve acts of copying that could
trigger expensive litigation, so "exceptions" are necessary for schools
and libraries. Uncertainty about such lawsuits has slowed access to
distance learning in rural areas and many First Nations communities.
Unfortunately, C-60's attempts to remedy this situation were hamstrung
by copy restrictions and administrative burdens. We can do better in
2006."
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Google Book Search: Not So Easy to Find the Library Link
By Library Journal.com, December 12, 2005
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6290431.html

"Librarians and library users alike are starting to use Google Book
Search (formerly Google Print) the way they use Google-and are now
mining information from books. But does Google Book Search let its users
easily find a library version of a book?"
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Students raise funds for roommate sued by RIAA
By Ross Liemer, Princetonian, December 9, 2005
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/12/09/news/14093.shtml

Delwin Olivan '08 might be luckier than the other 23 University students
charged with music piracy by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) last spring - his friends created a website and t-shirt
line to defray the cost of his settlement."
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Song sites face legal crackdown
By Ian Youngs, BBC News, 12 December 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm

"The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal
action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics."
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The Dead's Gamble: Free Music for Sale
By JON PARELES, New York Times.com, December 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/arts/music/03pare.html?ei=5070&en=071e
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"The Dead did a quick turnabout - call it a half-step uptown toodleloo -
this week. First, band representatives told the Live Music Archive, at
www.archive.org, which includes countless jam-band concerts in its
repository of freely downloadable music, to stop making available its
trove of live Grateful Dead recordings, which have been free online for
years. Grateful Dead Merchandising (www.gdstore.com) now sells downloads
of the band's own concert recordings, and didn't want free competition."
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