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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Russia agrees to shut down Allofmp3.com: But the music download site
that U.S. says is guilty of piracy continues to operate.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com, November 29, 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6139350.html

"update Russia has agreed to shut down Allofmp3.com and other music
sites based in that country that the U.S. government says are offering
downloads illegally."
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From: U.S. Copyright Office: Statement of the Librarian of Congress
Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/2006_statement.html

"In accordance with section 1201(a)(1) of the copyright law, I am
issuing a final rule that sets out six classes of works that will be
subject to exemptions for the next three years from the statute's
prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively
controls access to a copyrighted work. This is the third time that I
have issued such a rule, which the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) requires that I do every three years. These exemptions expire
after three years, unless proponents prove their case once again."
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http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
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BitTorrent cuts online video deals
By Troy Wolverton, Mercury News, Nov. 29, 2006
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16122678.htm

"In the latest volley in the growing battle to distribute movies,
television shows and other video content online, BitTorrent plans to
announce deals today with Paramount, MTV Networks, 20th Century Fox and
several smaller studios."
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Replies End From Google Answers
By James Niccolai, IDG News Service,  November 29, 2006
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128040-c,google/article.html

"Google shuts down ad-hoc online consulting service. Google is pulling
the plug on Google Answers, a service that allows people to submit
questions over the Internet that researchers answer for a fee."

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Professors get 'F' in copyright protection knowledge
By JAMES M. O'NEILL, BLOOMBERG NEWS, Seattle PI,  November 20, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/292898_copyright20.html

"U.S. college professors are flunking basic copyright protection law.
Book publishers say professors who post long excerpts of protected texts
on the Internet without permission cost the industry at least $20
million a year. Cornell University, the Ivy League college in Ithaca,
N.Y., agreed in September to regulate work its faculty puts on the Web,
in response to a threatened lawsuit from the Association of American
Publishers."
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New Copyright Laws Allow Users to Unlock Phones and Copy Movie Snippets
By Christopher Hogg, Digital Journal, Posted Nov 24, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/y3no7e

"Digital Journal - It's not often you hear the words "copyright laws"
and "allow snippets from DVDs to be copied" in the same sentence. But
recent news coming out of the Library of Congress indicates things might
be overhauled."