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MySpace to Stop The Music
By Clint Boulton, Internet News.com, October 31, 2006
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3641076

"MySpace is taking measures to beat back the looming specter of litigation
swirling over the downloading of copyrighted material."
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Press Release: UNEP, Yale and Publishers Launch "Online Access to Research in
the Environment" for Global Access to Critical Environmental Research
PRESS CONTACT
Janet Rettig Emanuel
203-432-2157
http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-10-30-05.all.html

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French publishers join fight against Google Book Search
By Eric Bangeman, arstechnica.com, 10/31/2006
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061031-8114.html

"Le Syndicat National de l'idition (SNE), a national trade union of French
publishers, has signed on to French publisher Le Martinihre Groupe's lawsuit
against Google's controversial Book Search service. In a statement, SNE said
that it was joining Le Martinhre Groupe's legal fight to "defend the
collective interests of the profession."
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Music Publishers Say Kazaa Deal Reached
The Associated Press, Washington Post.com, October 31, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR20061031009
53.html

"LOS ANGELES -- The music publishing industry reached a tentative deal with
operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright
infringement, an industry group said."
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China steps up anti-piracy campaign on Internet
By Xinhua, China Daily,  2006-10-28
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-10/28/content_719096.htm

"China has started this week a three-month campaign on the crackdown of
Internet piracy to purify the online atmosphere of copyright protection,
officials said.
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Report: U.K. Copyright Law Should Allow CD, DVD Copying
By CIO Tech.com, OCT 30, 2006
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=26181

"A report published Sunday and assembled by the United Kingdom's Institute for
Public Policy Research (ippr), a government-sponsored think tank, states that
U.K. copyright law is outdated and should be modified to give users of iPods
and other MP3 players "a private right to copy" content they purchased on CD
or DVD, according to an Oct. 29 ippr press release."
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Copying own CDs 'should be legal'
By BBC.com, 29 October 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6095612.stm

"A think-tank has called for outdated copyright laws to be rewritten to take
account of new ways people listen to music, watch films and read books."