In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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U.K. music biz vexed by file sharing
By Reuters, CNet.com, April 4, 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6057571.html

"The British music industry lost more than 1 billion pounds ($1.8
billion) in the past three years as a result of people illegally file
sharing on the Internet rather than paying for music, its trade
organization said Tuesday."
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More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4875142.stm
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What could Tory copyright look like under Harper government?
By Michael Geist, The Hill Times, April 3rd, 2006
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/
april/3/geist/&c=1

"Bill C-60 has been relegated to the dustbin, but the new Conservative
ministers responsible for copyright have provided some clues that change
may be on the way."
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Digging Deeper: YouTube CEO Hails 'Birth of a New Clip Culture'
By Mark Glaser, PBS.org, April 4, 2006
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/digging_deeperyoutube_ceo_hail.htm
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There is a simple truth about video-sharing site YouTube  , and an
enigma. The simple truth is that this web startup has bottled up the
viral video  idea and made it eminently drinkable by anyone - you go to
the site, find the video clip you want to watch, and, voila! you're
watching it in seconds."
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Creative way to licence copyright: Dutch court upholds online copyright
protection
By Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, 04 Apr 2006
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2153379/creative-way
-license-copyright

"Individuals who publish their work on the internet can now use an
alternative to copyright laws to protect their work a Dutch court has
ruled."
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Libraries cut back: Universities struggle to afford academic journals
By Mark Pitsch, The Courier-Journal, April 3, 2006
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060403/NEWS0
104/604030355

"University of Louisville medical professor Toni Miles said she
sometimes can't get the latest scholarly information in her field,
geriatrics."
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Sinking a music pirate: When the FBI came calling, all those 'free'
songs suddenly came with a big price tag.
By Mickey Borchardt, LATimes, April 3, 2006
(MICKEY BORCHARDT is a senior at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-borchardt3apr03,0,1
235215.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

"I THOUGHT THAT anything would be better than my early morning Spanish
class, but I realized I was wrong on that day two years ago when a
campus police officer pulled me out of class to inform me that an FBI
agent was waiting for me at my dormitory room."
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Music labels, Apple divided over pricing as talks approach
By Associated Press, Mecury News, Apr. 03, 2006
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14252432.h
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"Three years ago, Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs
persuaded major recording companies to buy into his vision of a simple,
one-price-fits-all online music store."
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Faculty, Copyright Law and Online Course Materials
By Phyllis C. Sweeney, PhD, Online Journal of Distance Learning
Administration, Volume IX, Number I, Spring 2006
University of West Georgia, Distance Education Cente
http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring91/sweeney91.htm

"Abstract
Copyright and fair use laws that regulate educational materials seem to
be fairly well understood by the U.S. courts and educators for use in
face-to-face (f2f) classrooms (Post and Trempus, 1998). Ever-changing
revisions to these laws blur the distinction between tangible and
intangible materials shared with students in f2f, online and hybrid
courses and must be decided on a case by case basis."
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Blog: Lawrence Lessig on Copyright
By Philipp Lenssen, GoogleBlogoscope, April 3, 2006
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-04-03-n67.html

"Lawrence Lessig is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the author
of Free Culture, a monthly columnist at Wired since 2003, blogger, and
father of the Creative Commons movement. He says for him there's "too
much travel, too much email, not enough time for reading or writing,"
but he found some time to answer my questions by email."
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Blog: Comments sought on copyright exemptions for libraries
By Nate Anderson, arstechnica.com, 4/3/2006
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060403-6512.html

"The Library of Congress has convened a Section 108 study group in
charge of looking at the copyright provisions that govern libraries and
archives."
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At Last, Movies to Keep Arrive on the Internet
By SAUL HANSELL, New York Times, April 3, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/business/03down.html

"Six major studios plan to begin selling movies over the Internet today
that buyers can download and keep for watching at any time."
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Seeking changes to the DMCA
By Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, March 31, 2006
http://news.com.com/Seeking+changes+to+the+DMCA/2100-7348_3-6056616.html

"WASHINGTON--Because of a controversial 1998 copyright law, it may be
illegal to defang even potentially harmful software, like the
anticopying technology found on some Sony BMG Music Entertainment CDs."
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Internet Archive's value, legality debated in copyright suit
By JOE MANDAK< Mecury News, Mar. 31, 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/
northern_california/14234638.htm

"PHILADELPHIA - An ongoing lawsuit between a company and a popular
archive of Web pages raises questions about whether the archive
unavoidably violates copyright laws while providing a valuable service,
according to attorneys and an independent law expert."
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AG tells kids to respect copyright laws when surfing the Net
By MARTHA MENDOZA, San Jose Mecury News, Mar. 31, 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14226270.h
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"SAN JOSE, Calif. - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brought a
simple message to middle school students: Don't steal."