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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Under legal pressure, lords of file-sharing going legit or out
By ALEX VEIGA, Mercury News, Jan. 02, 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/
northern_california/13534969.htm

"LOS ANGELES - Weeks before the original Napster shut down for good in
2001, Internet users were flocking to alternative song-swapping
programs. Nearly 20 million people used Morpheus in its first four
months, for example, to trade music and other files for free online."
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Blog: News: Copyright protection: How far will Sony go?
Posted By: Digital Digest, Dec 31, 2005
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/forumnews_59756.html

"After the firestorm kicked off by Sony's use of rootkit cloaking
technology in CDs to prevent piracy, you might think other media firms
would never consider such intrusive methods. But some observers believe
the controversy may just lead studios to push for anticopying measures
that are hard-wired into your system."
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350 writers register for copyright protection
By VNE, VietNamNet Bridge, 01/01/2006
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/01/528244/

"On December 28, Vietnamese writers and cultural managers discussed on
"Using literature works and copyright", on background of Vietnam
Copyright Law is preparing to issue."
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Rootkit fiasco shows sterner laws needed
By MICHAEL GEIST, Toronto Star, Jan. 2, 2006
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1136155809237&call_pageid=968350072197&col=96
9048863851
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The Sony Rootkit controversy, in which the world's second largest record
label rendered hundreds of thousands of computers vulnerable to hackers
by inserting faulty copy-protection software into CDs, was one of the
top technology law blunders of 2005."
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Blog: The Benefits of Copyright Reform
By Michael Geist, Dec. 28, 2005
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105
1&Itemid=89&nsub=

"One of the responses to my post on the latest CRIA poll warns against
referring to "copyright reform" just because Graham Henderson does in
the CRIA release.  While I obviously do not support Henderson' s view of
changes to Canadian copyright law nor the efforts to prop up Sam Bulte
(both financially and rhetorically) against a tough NDP challenger, I do
not think that those concerned with balanced copyright and the interests
of Canadian education, consumers, and artists should shy away from
reform."
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Copyright and Digital Works: Still No Clear Answer from the Courts
By Caroline Horton Rockafellow, Special To LTW.com,
http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=12988

"RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Last week, the United States Supreme Court
declined to hear Psihoyos, v. National Geographic Enterprises, a dispute
between National Geographic Magazine and several of its freelance
writers and photographers."
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Video crooks come in from the cold
By Nick Butterly, News Limited. AU, December 28, 2005
http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,17673408-10431,00.html

"MILLIONS of Australians who tape TV shows and copy CDs will soon get
the right to do it with a clear conscience. The Federal Government will
next year legalise the video recording of television shows for personal
use, and the transfer of songs from CDs to MP3 players, in a bid to
overturn a ban which has made criminals of much of the population."
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A new chapter in the death of the book
By Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald, December 29, 2005
http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/a-new-chapter-in-the-death-of-the-book/20
05/12/28/1135732641559.html

"Libraries and publishers are up in arms about Google's latest venture,
writes Peter Martin."
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New copyright law approaches -- content to be removed
By dRD of Afterdawn, 26 December 2005
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7179.cfm

"As some of you might remember, Finnish Parliament approved a new
copyright legislation in October, 2005 and that new legislation will
come into force on 1st of January, 2006. As AfterDawn Ltd is a company
based in Finland, we have to play along with the new law, however vague
and draconian it is."
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He revives books others have forgotten
By Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun, December 25, 2005
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/custom/aetoday/bal-ae.alcott25dec25
,1,845354.story?coll=bal-aetoday-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
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"Brentwood, Tenn. // Steve Hines spends hours camped out at the
Nashville Public Library, looking for obscure works by famous authors."
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P-to-P amendment delays French copyright bill
By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service, MacWorld.com, December 23, 2005
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/12/23/frenchp2p/index.php

The French government has postponed the National Assembly's vote on a
new copyright law until the new year, abandoning its earlier insistence
that the bill was so urgent that it must pass before year-end."