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Studios to OK Copying Movie Downloads to Disc. By Greg Sandoval; CNET
News, 8/10/2006.
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6104388.html

Accused often of being anti-consumer when it comes to digital media, the
movie industry has plans to relax controls over how films are copied to
DVDs.

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Software Mines Internet To Identify Music Piracy. By Laurie Sullivan;
InformationWeek, 8/9/2006.
http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1919
00940

Software from vendor Identity Systems will search unstructured text on
the Internet, including e-mails, file directory listings, and search
results for peer-to-peer sites, to identify piracy.

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UC Libraries Join Google's Book Scanning Project Despite Lawsuits.
SiliconValley.com (San Jose Mercury News, MercuryNews.com), 8/9/2006.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15234395.h
tm

The University of California is joining Google Inc.'s book-scanning
project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an
ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright
infringement.

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The Upside to Video Uploads. By William Murray; BusinessWeek Online,
8/7/2006.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060807_376446
.htm?chan=top+news_top+news

Set apart from the file-sharing rebels by copyright cooperation and ad
income potential, user-created video sites will continue to flourish.

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Lessig Seeks Legal Ground for Content Exchange. By Martin LaMonica; CNET
News.com, 8/4/2006.
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6102451.html

High-profile legal scholar Lawrence Lessig on Friday called for an
initiative to create compatible content licenses as a way to exchange
content and promote "free culture."

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Copyright Suit Challenges What's Public vs. Private. By Lisa M. Krieger;
Mercury News, 8/4/2006.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/15196766.htm

Standford University attorneys are suing Stephen James Joynce, the
grandson of James Joyce, in a closely watched case that will affect not
only copyright law, but the world of literature, art and film. The
question is this: Do the works of a long-dead writer belong to his heirs
-- or the public?

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Music Industry Sues P2P Firm Limewire. By Greg Sandoval; CNET News,
8/4/2006.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6102509.html

After months of issuing warnings, the music industry finally made good
on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company
LimeWire.

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Napster Subscribers Decline. By Reuters; CNET News, 8/3/2006.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6101620.html

Napster provided a disappointing outlook for its online music service
and said its subscriber base had fallen 7 percent as it focused on
promoting a new free Web site on Wednesday.

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UC Libraries May Join Google Project.  By David A. Utter;
Webpronews.com, 8/3/2006.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060803UCLibrariesMayJ
oinGoogleProject.html

The University of California (UC) system could take part in Google's
book-scanning project, and would make 34 million volumes available to
the search engine.

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