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Press Release: May 31, 2006
Blackwell Publishing Streamlines Copyright Permissions With Rightslink
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20060531005963&newsLang=en

"DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2006--Copyright Clearance
Center (CCC), the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and
compliance solutions, today announced that Blackwell Publishing has
selected Rightslink(R) as its automated, online permissions licensing
solution. Blackwell Publishing, the world's leading society publisher
which publishes more than 800 scholarly journals and has more than 6,000
books in print, is using Rightslink to instantly license customer
requests to reuse content from its journals."
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Chinese Ministries Make Joints Efforts In Intellectual Property
Copyright Protection
By China Tech News, May 31, 2006
http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=4012

"China's Ministry of Commerce, China Customs, General Administration of
Industry and Commerce, National Copyright Administration of China, State
Intellectual Property Office of China and China Council for the
Promotion of International Trade have together set up a special team to
better enhance the protection of intellectual property rights at
conferences and exhibitions. "
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China to fine Internet pirates
By China Knowledge, May 30, 2006
http://www.chinaknowledge.com/news/news-detail.aspx?id=3213

"China has announced a new law banning the uploading and downloading of
pirated material over the Internet as well as the production, import and
supply of any technology that aids piracy.
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Want to copyright digital photos? It's a snap
BY JAMES COATES, Chicago Tribune, Mary 31, 2006
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/14681579.htm

"A. The boom in digital photography and the ease of copying photos as
files and sending them helter-skelter over the Internet generates
renewed interest in the arcane procedure known as copyright, as your
situation illustrates."
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Life in Google's Copyright Cross Hairs
by Ben Charny, Oracle Watch, May 30, 2006
http://oraclewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/05/30/10394
.aspx

Despite a recent headline-grabbing trademark enforcement, Google seems
to have settled on a live-and-let-live attitude about many of its chief
trademark offenders, namely Web sites with names that sound like Google
that offer Internet search."
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Press Release: Education Ministers want amendment in federal copyright
legislation
Priority issue - educational use of the Internet - discussed with
federal Ministers
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2006/30/c8534.html

"TORONTO, May 30 /CNW/ - When education ministers consider the federal
government's new copyright legislation, educational access to the
Internet will remain a priority. The ministers' Copyright Consortium
Chair, the Honourable Jamie Muir of Nova Scotia, has met with Canadian
Heritage Minister Bev Oda and will soon be meeting with Industry Canada
Minister Maxime Bernier to ensure that the next federal copyright bill
is a balanced piece of..."
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Ohlone College goes high-tech to pioneer iTunes University
By Angela Woodall, Insode the Bay Area, 05/29/2006
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3877368

"FREMONT - Ohlone College will jump into the digital revolution in
September by making class lectures and other educational content
available on iPods, the hand-held devices used for downloading music
from the Internet."
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Canada: Higher Stakes for Copyright Infringers
by Daphne Maravei, (c)2006, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 28 May 2006
This article was originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual
Property - May 2006
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=39782&searchresults=1
(Registration Required)

"In Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency v. U-Compute, a significant
amount of evidence leads to a finding of guilt on a criminal law
standard - beyond a reasonable doubt - in regard to an illicit copying
operation."
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Promoting Science and Useful Arts: The Growth of Copyright Since 1976
by Omkar Muralidharan , Stanford Review, May 26 , 2006
http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXXVI/Issue_9/Features/feat
ures1.shtml

"In early 1971, a cartoonist named Dan O'Neill and his colleagues
"decided that what America truly needed was the destruction of Walt
Disney" (Levin). They drew raunchy, unauthorized comics featuring Mickey
and friends doing drugs, having sex, and generally acting unDisneylike.
Predictably, Disney sued for copyright infringement. Given the comics'
insignificant sales and the nonexistent potential for confusion with
real Disney comics, an observer might think the case an easy free speech
decision."