In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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US groups urge worst piracy label for Russia

By Reuters.com, Feb 13, 2006

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006
-02-13T184327Z_01_N13252345_RTRUKOC_0_US-TRADE-RUSSIA-PIRACY.xml&archived=Fal
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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. music, movie and software groups urged the Bush
administration on Monday to immediately suspend trade benefits for Russia in
retaliation for widespread piracy that annually costs American companies about
$1.76 billion in lost sales"

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Committee skirts copyright issues with unspoken theme

By Harshil Shah, The Dartmouth, February 10, 2006

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006021001140



"Murmurs about a Calvin and Hobbes theme for Winter Carnival that have been
heard around campus for weeks are technically unfounded: the 2006 theme for
Dartmouth's blowout winter weekend is "Stupendous Games: Mischief in the Snow"
--- a deliberate move by the carnival committee to skirt copyright laws.

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Copy shop faces copyright lawsuit

By JACK STRIPLING, Gainsville.com,

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060210/LOCAL/20210032
2/1078/news



"Facing allegations that he illegally and routinely copied some 20 published
works without paying royalties, a local copy shop owner was sued by six
publishing companies in federal court Wednesday."

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MP3 Inventor Develops Tool to Fight Piracy: Digital watermarking technology
would be used to track pirated audio files online.

By John Blau, IDG News Service, February 09, 2006

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124676,00.asp



"Fraunhofer Institute has developed prototype technology to help curb the
sharp rise in online music piracy, which, ironically, has been enabled through
another invention of the renowned German research group: MP3 audio
compression.

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Nigeria: This Day versus The Sun copyright case: Our position
By RAZAQ BAMIDELE, Sun News Online, February 9, 2006

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2006/feb/09/national%20-0
9-2-2006-009.htm



"The last has by no means been heard on the landmark copyright violation case
between The Sun and ThisDay newspaper, upon which judgment was delivered on
Tuesday by a Lagos High Court."

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US college backs Google Book plan

By BBCNews.com, 8 February 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4692600.stm



"A leading US academic has defended Google's controversial plan to digitise
the contents of major libraries."

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President Mary Sue Coleman

"Google, the Khmer Rouge and the Public Good"

Feb. 6, 2006

Address to the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association
of American Publishers

http://battellemedia.com/archives/MSC_AAP_Google_address.pdf

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Blog: SIVACRACY.NET <http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/>

How DRM is Destroying Libraries: Ben over at if:book on DRM and the damage
done to libraries:
<http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2006/02/drm_and_the_dam.html>

February 13, 2006

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/002769.html



What these restrictions in effect do is place locks on books, journals and
other publications -- locks for which there are generally no keys. What
happens, for example, when a work passes into the public domain but its code
restrictions remain intact?"