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Google Wages Fresh Campaign Against Critics of Project to Digitize Library
Books

By ANDREA L. FOSTER <mailto:andrea.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> , Chronicle.com,
February 23 2006

http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006022301t.htm

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"The battle between publishers and Google over the Internet-search company's
project to digitize library books has heated up with an announcement this
month by Google that it was starting a campaign to dispel misperceptions about
the project."

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WIPO Blasted Over Copyright Tips To Developing Nations

By IPLAW360, Wednesday, February 22, 2006

http://ip.law360.com/Secure/ViewArticle.aspx?id=5403
<https://webmail.umuc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ip.law360.com/Secu
re/ViewArticle.aspx?id=5403>

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"A worldwide federation of consumer organizations has castigated the United
Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization, accusing the institution of
failing some of the world's poorest countries by doling out misleading
copyright advice."

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Bad copyright advice 'stunts learning'
By Frances Williams, FTnew.com, February 20 2006

https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=&location=http%3A//n
ews.ft.com/cms/s/fea5b154-a23b-11da-9096-0000779e2340.html

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"Poor countries are being wrongly advised to enact tougher copyright laws than
required by international treaties, making access to copyright publications
prohibitively expensive, Consumers International charged on Monday."

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Nude-photo site wins injunction against Google

By Declan McCullagh
<mailto:declan.mccullagh@xxxxxxxx?subject=FEEDBACK:Nude-photo%20site%20wins%2
0injunction%20against%20Google> ,  CNET News.com, February 21, 2006

http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6041724.html



"A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search
feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web
sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law."

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Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA

By, Thomas Mennecke, Slyc.com, February 23, 2006

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1106



"The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is steamrolling across the
great indexing plains. Tuesday brought news the eDonkey2000 indexing server
Razorback2 was taken offline by Belgian Police, in conjunction with the MPAA.
Today, the MPAA has announced a tremendous escalation in their fight against
online piracy - this time targeting BitTorrent, eDonkey2000 and Newsgroup NZB
indexing sites."

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Blog: Court Upholds Dual Patent/Copyright Protection for Software: Aharonian
v. Gonzales (N.D.Cal. 2006).

By Patently-O, Feb 15, 2006

http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2006/02/court_upholds_d.html



"Although he operates primarily through an e-mail list rather than through a
website, Greg Aharonian is the honorary trailblazer for today's intellectual
property law blogs (including Patently-O).  He is also an activist."

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Kazaa case back in court

By Louisa Hearn, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 20, 2006

http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/kazaa-case-back-in-court/2006/02/20/11402
83981605.html



"The latest chapter in the courtroom battle between Sharman Networks, owner of
the Kazaa file sharing network, and the Australian recording industry was set
in motion today."

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Music industry souring on IPod

By Fred Reed, Washington Times,com,  February 18, 2006

http://washingtontimes.com/technology/20060217-105332-6734r.htm



"If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if it's really broke bad, like the
grammar in this sentence, maybe you need a new approach. So it is with
file-sharing."

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DMCA axes sites discussing Mac OS for PCs

By Tom Krazit, CNET News.com, February 17, 2006

http://news.com.com/DMCA+axes+sites+discussing+Mac+OS+for+PCs/2100-1016_3-604
0983.html?tag=alert



"Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices."

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New DVDs already sparking copy-protection confusion

By John Borland
<mailto:jborland@xxxxxxxx?subject=FEEDBACK:New%20DVDs%20already%20sparking%20
copy-protection%20confusion> , CNET News.com, February 16, 2006

http://news.com.com/New+DVDs+already+sparking+copy-protection+confusion/2100-
1025_3-6040261.html?tag=alert



"When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this spring, a mad
scramble may ensue--not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what
computers and devices are actually able to play them in their full glory."

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California tying education tech grants to copyright education

By Ken "Caesar" Fisher <http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/bios/caesar.html> ,
Ars Technica, LLC, 2/15/2006

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060215-6184.html



"Legislation is being considered in California that would see the state's
educational technology grant program tethered to requirements for teaching
copyright law to students. Introduced nearly a year ago, AB 307 would amend
section 51871.5 of the Californian Education Code to include new preconditions
for public schools applying for funding under the oversight of the California
Technology Assistance Project. The project is designed to provide a network of
technical assistance to schools and their districts in implementing education
technology as determined by the Californian State Board of Education."

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The year of free culture?
By Becky Hogge <http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Becky_Hogge.jsp> ,
opendemocracy.net,  14 2 - 2006

http://www.opendemocracy.net/media/free_culture_3266.jsp

"As the UK government reviews patent and copyright law to boost Britain's
creative economy, Becky Hogge says democratic access to knowledge ought to
benefit too."