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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Law professor and copyright expert lets ideas percolate at Breakfast
Briefing:
No economic evidence has been compiled to show the patent system does more
good than harm, intellectual property expert asserts
BY MICHAEL PEQA, Stanford Report, August 23, 2006
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/august23/lessig-082306.html

"Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, widely considered the foremost
authority on intellectual property issues in the digital era, presented the
case for overhauling copyright law to attendees of the Stanford Breakfast
Briefing on Aug. 9."
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Copyright vs Scholarship
By Alan Wexelblat, Corante, August 23, 2006
http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2006/08/23/copyright_vs_scholarship.php

"In this case it's feminist scholarship. In August of 2004, the New York Times
published an op-ed by Sarah Glazer, reporting on the disgraceful state of
translation of the feminist classic The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
Glazer covers in detail how the translator's ignorance of philosophy,
particularly the Existential and Phenomenological philosophical traditions,
led to a work that - in English - has virtually the opposite meaning of the
original French."
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The Books Google Could Open
By Richard Ekman, Washington Post, August 22, 2006; A15
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR20060821011
49_pf.html

"The nation's colleges and universities should support Google's controversial
project to digitize great libraries and offer books online. It has the
potential to do a lot of good for higher education in this country.
The rapid annual increase in the number of new books and journals, coupled
with far-reaching technological."
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Publishers Fight Back Against Google with New Book Search Service
by Steve Bryant, Google Watch/e-week, August 22, 2006
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/08/22/12595.aspx

"Publishers who want to make their books searchable online but aren't
comfortable with Google Book Search now have another option."
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DRM : Oversight of DRM Misuse (Markets)
By Michael Geist , Agoravox, 22 August 2006
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5080

"Today's installment focuses on the need for an amendment to the Competition
Act should Canada introduce anti-circumvention legislation. The Act should be
amended to ensure that the Competition Bureau is not restricted in its ability
to bring actions against abusive behaviour stemming from the application of an
anti-circumvention provision."
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Now the Music Industry Wants Guitarists to Stop Sharing
By BOB TEDESCHI, New York Times, August 21, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21ecom.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"The Internet put the music industry and many of its listeners at odds thanks
to the popularity of services like Napster and Grokster. Now the industry is
squaring off against a surprising new opponent: musicians."
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UK: Tories at centre of copyright row
By Alex Lewis, Review and Observer, 21st August 2006
http://www.stalbansobserver.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.886840.0.tories_
at_centre_of_copyright_row.php

"LITERATURE produced by the local Conservative Party used two photographs with
no apparent regard for the law of copyright, the St Albans Observer has
learned."