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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Cornell U. Creates Guidelines on Electronic Reserves to Avoid Copyright
Problems
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle.com, September 19, 2006
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/09/2006091901t.htm

"To avoid potential legal action by the Association of American
Publishers, Cornell University issued guidelines for professors this
month on how to place materials on electronic reserve without violating
copyright law."
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Cornell's Guidelines:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/policy/Copyright_Guidelines.pdf
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Google to appeal Brussels copyright ruling
By Expatica.com , 19 September 2006
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=331
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"The court ruled that Google was breaking the law by including headlines
and links to stories from the Belgian press on its Google News website."
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Consumer groups decry copyright bill
By DAN CATERINICCHIA, Busniess Week, SEP. 19
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8K84R4O1.htm

"Consumer groups and satellite radio providers held a press briefing
Tuesday to protest proposed legislation that would require most
temporary copies of songs made on computers and consumer products to be
licensed and paid for regardless of why the music was downloaded."
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UK: Copyright infringement - a question of respect
By Jonathan Weber, Times Online, September 18, 2006
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2363595,00.html

"The proper role and use of copyright is one of the great, unresolved
arguments of the internet era. Many net activists believe that copyright
laws in the US have become an impediment to creativity and innovation in
a world of file-sharing and remixing, and that the entertainment
industry in particular is hurting both itself and its customers by
trying to keep tight control over its products.
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Blog: The Copyright-ization of YouTube
By  Mark Evans, Agoravox, September 19, 2006
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5171

For anyone dreaming of a YouTube IPO (or M&A), hope comes in the form of
a licensing deal with Warner Brother Music that will see some kind of
revenue sharing. According to AP, Warner will license thousands of music
videos to YouTube. Warner will also let people use its songs in
home-made video that appear on YouTube."
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Blog: Google, YouTube: multi-billion dollar 'fair-use' risky bets
Posted by Donna Bogatin, September 18, 2006
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/index.php?p=451

"The "fair-use" doctrine is critical to Google's multi-billion dollar
business and to YouTube's hoped for billion dollar valuation."
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Online music business model questioned
By Jeffrey Goldfarb, Reuters.com, Sep 18, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/kxogr

"LONDON (Reuters) - Only one in five European iPod owners regularly buys
songs online, new research shows, a signal that the music industry will
need to rely more heavily on other ways to recover revenue lost to
piracy and illegal downloading."
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How Copyright Broke
By Cory Doctorow, Locus Magazine, September 2006
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/09DoctorowCommentary.html

"The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright
is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things
cheaply, quickly, and with as little control as possible, while
copyright is the right to control who gets to make copies, so these two
abstractions seem destined for a fatal collision, right?"