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Press Release: For immediate release:
September 7, 2006
Contact:
David McGuire
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Paper Offers Framework For Evaluating Digital Rights Management (DRM)
http://www.cdt.org/press/20060907press.php

"WASHINGTON -- The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) today
released a document designed to help promote a greater public
understanding of the choices and tradeoffs associated with products and
services that include Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology."
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Copyright treaty draws tech industry criticism
By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, September 5, 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6112532.html

"ALEXANDRIA, Va.--An online culture built around user-generated content
on Web sites like YouTube and MySpace would be imperiled by a new
treaty, public interest groups and some technology companies said
Tuesday."
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Google-UC contract unnerves publishing giants: Copyright brawl takes
another turn after agreements revealed
By Juan Carlos Perez, ComputerWorld.com,  September 05, 2006
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&;
articleId=9003021

"(IDG News Service) -- The book-scanning contract between Google Inc.
and the University of California has made the Association of American
Publishers (AAP) even more distressed over Google's project to digitize
millions of volumes from libraries."
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Copyright tussle looming over online video?: Broadcast treaty threatens
the net, says tech coalition
By Anne Broache, Silicon.com, 6 September 2006
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39162123,00.htm

"An online culture built around user-generated content on websites such
as MySpace and YouTube would be imperiled by a new treaty, public
interest groups and some technology companies said on Tuesday."
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Google to Offer News Archive
By Michael Liedtke, washingtonpost.com, September 6, 2006; Page D04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR200609
0501563.html?referrer=email

"Google Inc. is expanding its online news index to include stories
published years ago, continuing its efforts to create new sales channels
for long-established media and make its Web site more useful.
The archive, to be unveiled today, includes articles from media outlets
including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and
The Washington Post. Information storehouses such as LexisNexis, Factiva
and HighBeam Research also have opened up sections of their databases to
Google's expanded index."
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Blog: Education Ministers' Copyright Proposal Needs a Rewrite
By Michael Geist, Agoravox, 5 September 2006
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5125

"As thousands of children across the province return to school tomorrow,
nearly everyone will be asking "what did you do this summer?" If the
question were posed to Education Minister Sandra Pupatello, her candid
reply might be that she was working with her fellow Provincial Ministers
of Education on reforms that will have damaging consequences on Internet
use in Canada."
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Vietnam: Collecting management of copyright and related rights needs
well-functioning
Nhan Dan, September 5, 2006
http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/050906/culture_c.htm

"A well-functioning collecting management of copyright and related
rights is very important for  protection of artists and creators, the
development of copyright related industries together with the promotion
of cultural assets."
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Blog: Keeping the books
By Andrew Brown, Commentisfree.com, September 5, 2006
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/andrew_brown/2006/09/google_books.ht
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"Google's project to digitise classic literature may seem ambitious, but
libraries still have the upper hand."
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Google offers digitised Dante and online Hugo
By Katie Allen, The Guardian, August 31, 2006
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1861685,00.html

"The search engine Google is allowing web surfers to download entire
classics such as Dante's Divine Comedy for free as it extends its
controversial Book Search."