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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Writers wary of university's digital plan
By CBC News,  Jan 10 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/nl/story/nf_library_writers_20060110.html

"Newfoundland and Labrador writers are fighting a plan to make their
work available on the internet for free."
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US copyright czar bound for Bangkok
By Bangkok Post,
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=71307

"The US government has appointed a high-ranking official to take charge
of the battle against copyright theft in Asia. Based in Bangkok, federal
prosecutor Christopher Sonderby, a federal prosecutor until now, is to
be the US Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator."
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Press Release: Court Rejects Knight Ridder Newspaper's Fair Use Defense
in Copyright Infringement Action
Source: Trial & Technology Law Group,  January 5, 2006
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060105/sfth121.html?.v=7

"MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 3, 2006 the
Federal District Court for the Northern District of California ruled
against Knight- Ridder's flagship newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News,
on its motion to dismiss a copyright infringement action brought against
it by Trial & Technology Law Group, a Silicon Valley law firm, on behalf
of Christopher Harris, a prominent Southern photographer. Mr. Harris has
worked on assignment for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and he
is currently a professor at Middle Tennessee State University."
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Chirac orders rethink in copyright row: Collapse of Internet piracy
legislation prompts French president to ask for revisions.
By Reuters, January 5, 2006
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/05/news/international/bc.media.france.copyr
ight.reut/

"PARIS- French President Jacques Chirac waded into a political row over
music piracy on Thursday by asking lawmakers to improve their proposals
to fine online bootleggers while safeguarding Internet freedoms."
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Grokster To Users: "You Are Not Anonymous".
By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb News  Jan 4, 2006
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17580148
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"Visitors to Grokster now see their own IP address with the warning that
it has been logged. Some see this as part of the file-sharing network's
bid to settle its legal problems"
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Blog: Freeculture Urges Boycott of DRMed Disks
By Alan Wexelblat, Corante, January 09, 2006
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2006/01/09/freeculture_urges_b
oycott_of_drmed_disks.php

"Gavin Baker of FreeCulture.org sent me a note asking for people to sign
up for their Pledge to boycott DRM campaign."