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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Microsoft to offer book search: Company joins Yahoo's book digitization
project, paying to bring 150,000 books online. Will MSN Book Search stay
out of legal trouble?
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, October 25, 2005
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+offer+book+search/2100-1025_3-5913711.h
tml?tag=nl

"In the wake of lawsuits filed against Google, Microsoft said on Tuesday
that it would join a competing and less controversial library book
digitization project sponsored by Yahoo and Internet Archive."
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TVUPlayer: Another Napster?
The video service is building an audience but legal experts wonder about
copyright issues.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com,  October 24, 2006
http://news.com.com/TVUPlayer+Another+Napster/2100-1025_3-6128775.html?t
ag=alert

"By streaming video of popular television programs over the Web, a
self-described peer-to-peer service called TVUPlayer has begun to draw a
loyal worldwide following."
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Loyal, helpful and respectful of copyright
By David Pierson,Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2006
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003318170_scouts23.ht
ml

"LOS ANGELES - Boy Scouts can earn badges for carving wood, raising
rabbits and firing shotguns.
But in Los Angeles, Scouts will now be able to earn their stripes by
proselytizing about the evils of copyright piracy."
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Blog: Google: Our fuzzy (legal) logic prevails, 'like it or not'
Posted by Donna Bogatin, October 23, 2006
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/index.php?p=579

"Google CEO Eric Schmidt, leader of $140 billion market cap "most
powerful Internet company (as cited by the New York Times)," confidently
reported to Wall Street an "excellent" Q3 performance last Thursday in a
public conference call."
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We're Google. So Sue Us.
By KATIE HAFNER, New York Times, October 23, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/technology/23google.html?_r=1&ref=tech
nology&oref=slogin
(Registration Required)

"SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19 - Google attracts millions of Web users every
day. And, increasingly, it's attracting the attention of plenty of
lawyers, too."
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>From The Age (no registration required)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/the-name-is-google-so-sue-us/2006
/10/23/1161455664451.html
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YouTube's no friend to copyright violators: Those who post copyright
material should expect no protection from the video-sharing site if
accused of infringement.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com, October 21, 2006
http://news.com.com/YouTubes+no+friend+to+copyright+violators/2100-1030_
3-6128252.html?tag=alert

"People posting copyright material on YouTube shouldn't be surprised if
the company makes no effort to protect them in a copyright battle."
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YouTube deletes 29,549 videos at request of Japanese broadcasters,
copyright groups
By Manichi Daily News, October 20, 2006
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20061020p2a00m0et018000
c.html

"A total of 29,549 videos were deleted from video streaming site YouTube
following a request from copyright-related rights organizations, NHK and
other broadcasters, the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors,
Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) said Friday."
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Perspective:  Web 2.0 as a metaphor for 'rip-off': perspective CNET
News.com's Charles Cooper says a frank discussion of copyright
protection in the new cyber-age is long overdue.
By Charles Cooper, October 20, 2006
http://news.com.com/Web+2.0+as+a+metaphor+for+rip-off/2010-1030_3-612778
0.html

"In one of those delicious ironies that history occasionally dishes up,
quasi-socialist Europe turns out to be leagues ahead of the capitalist
United States when it comes to protecting intellectual property on the
Internet."
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European film-makers angered by proposed copyright changes
By Expatica news 2006, 19 October 2006
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=338
20

"BRUSSELS - The European Commission's plan to modify copyright
legislation will threaten the livelihood of artists and creators in the
multimedia business."
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Microsoft in talks over newspaper copyright
By Mark Sweney, MediaGuardian.co.uk, Oct 18, 2006
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1925192,00.html

"Microsoft is being targeted by the organisation that won a court battle
with Google over the reproduction of newspaper content."
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Microsoft to catch up on its reading: Super scanner and Cornell join
Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search
project.
By Candace Lombardi, CNET News.com, October 18, 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6127081.html

"A super scanner and a major university have agreed to work on
Microsoft's book digitization project."
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