In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Bill seeks music royalties for satellite downloads
By Reuters, CNet.com, April 25, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/l8nak

"A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation that would
require satellite radio companies to compensate the music industry for
downloads, industry and congressional sources said."
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EU seeks minimum sentence for goods forgery
By Sarah Laitner, Financial Times, April 25 2006
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/83204150-d479-11da-a357-0000779e2340.html

"Counterfeiters could face minimum four-year jail terms in the European
Union as part of sweeping plans to combat piracy set to be unveiled on
Wednesday."
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Press Release: Attention National/Arts & Entertainment Editors
Media Advisory - Launch of A New Voice: The Canadian Music Creators
Coalition
Montreal, April 26
http://www.musiccreators.ca/docs/Press_Release-April_26.pdf

"Canadian musicians, songwriters and producers unite to provide a new
voice in Canadian copyright and cultural policy. Canada's leading
artists to speak for themselves."
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States struggling to deal with digital documents
By Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com, April 25, 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-6064793.html

"st state governments are not actively tackling the creeping problem of
digital archives and long-term access to public documents, according to
the head of an industry group."
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Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com,  April 23, 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html

"update For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies,
academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress
to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
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Patent Awarded to RealNetworks May Give It a Competitive Edge
By JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times, 24, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/mqpbu
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"SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 - RealNetworks has received a patent on a way
to stream multimedia content over the Internet, and the company said
last week that it believed the patent would give it leverage as
companies rapidly expand their efforts to turn the Internet into a
broadcast medium."

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6th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property "Copyright at a
Crossroads: The Impact of Mass Digitization on Copyright and Higher
Education"
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