In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Study: Movie piracy cost Hollywood studios $6.1 billion in '05
By Associated Press, Silicon Valley.com, May. 03, 2006
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14491646.h
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"Internet and DVD piracy cost major Hollywood movie studios $6.1 billion
in lost revenue last year, according to a study commissioned by the film
industry's trade group."
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French copyright bill changes may favor Apple
By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service, May 3, 2006
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/03/french/index.php

"French lawmakers may throw out plans to require online music stores to
use interoperable DRM (digital rights management) systems to protect
their wares when a new copyright bill comes up for debate Thursday."
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Viewpoint: Copyright and its discontents
By: Lance Gallop, The Observer Online (Notre Dame and Saint Mary's),
5/3/06
http://tinyurl.com/ny7qh

"I am rather embarrassed to admit it, but there is almost nothing in the
world that I love so much as words. In the art and science of writing,
when everything falls into place there can be found fulfillment,
spirituality, self-actualization and truth. It is a light that comes and
goes - because I am as adept at writing garbage as anyone. But when
words willingly flow I wonder whether or not humans themselves are just
living words, and I think I understand what Genesis means when it says
that the universe was spoken into being."
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Press Release: New Service from Internet Archive Enables Memory
Institutions to Archive Historic Collections for Posterity

Internet Archive Launches Archive-It Service
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=59978

San Francisco, CA - May 1, 2006 - Internet Archive today announced the
latest release of Archive-It 1.5 (www.archive-it.org), a new
subscription-based archiving service geared towards a broad range of
institutions at a cost considerably lower than other archive platforms.
Archive-It enables subscribers to capture, categorize, and preserve
online material from their own institutions' websites as well as from
the world wide web. Users are able to access and explore and these
text-searchable collections, without needing additional technical
expertise."
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Blog: Preserving the Web one group at a time
By CNET.com, May 1, 2006
http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6067173.html

"The Internet Archive, a nonprofit out to archive all the pages on the
Web, has introduced subscription-based software that allows institutions
and historic societies to create and search their own digital catalogs
of information or multimedia. The software, called Archive-It 1.5, has
been in lab testing for most of the year, but it's now available
commercially for a $10,000 annual subscription."
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Homes for copyright orphans
By William Jackson, GCN.com, 05/01/06
http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40582-1.html

"The Copyright Office is proposing legislation that would make it easier
for libraries, universities and archives, including the Library of
Congress, to digitize collections that contain "orphan works."

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A Barenaked guide to music copyright reform
By Steven Page, National Post, Monday, May 01, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/q4umo

"Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies offers his opinions on the state of
Canadian copyright law."
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Microsoft CEO: New Web offerings could cut program piracy, prices
By Laurence Frost, USAToday.com, 4/27/2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-04-27-france-microsoft_x.htm

"PARIS - Software prices could fall as companies develop subscription
sales and distribute increasingly complex programs that run in Web
browsers, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday."
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Hollywood Targets Campus LANs
By Roy Mark, Internet News.com, April 28, 2006
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3602596

"The music and movie industries are again targeting illegal file sharing
through college and university local area networks (LANs)."
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More Coverage:
Studios, RIAA target student piracy
http://news.com.com/Studios%2C+RIAA+target+student+piracy/2100-1025_3-60
66118.html?tag=alert
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Digital Dissertation Dust-Up: Film clips and hyperlinks in graduate
theses raise tough copyright and open-source issues
By PETER MONAGHAN, Chronicle of HE, April 28, 2006
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i34/34a04101.htm

"Virginia A. Kuhn, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin
at Milwaukee, was having dissertation trouble. Nothing unusual about
that."
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Bill seeks music royalties for satellite downloads
By Brooks Boliek, Reuters, April 26, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR200604
2600054.html

"WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - 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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PERFORM Act to restrict recording, broadcasting rights
By Anders Bylund, Ars Technica, 4/26/2006
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060426-6679.html

"Yet another bill aimed at restricting the rights of entertainment
consumers was introduced to the US Senate yesterday. Dubbed the PERFORM
Act ("Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of
2006") and sponsored by the cross-party team of Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN), the
proposed changes to the Copyright Act would force the use of protected
formats for all streaming media services, whether online, on cable, or
through satellite radio and TV. Not surprisingly, the EFF and the Home
Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) have already voiced their opposition
to the measure."