In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Entertainment Software Association Joins New Copyright Alliance
By PortalIT News.com, 29.05.2007
http://tinyurl.com/2xo5fk

"The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) decided to join the
newly-established Copyright Alliance, a non-profit trade group with a
stated goal of "promoting the value of copyright as an agent for
creativity, jobs and growth."
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Copyright Silliness on Campus
By Fred von Lohmann, Washington Post, June 6, 2007; Page A23
http://tinyurl.com/2h2os9

"What do Columbia, Vanderbilt, Duke, Howard and UCLA have in common?
Apparently, leaders in Congress think that they aren't expelling enough
students for illegally swapping music and movies."
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Lawmakers Encourage Colleges to Consider Using Technological Tools to
Curtail Campus Piracy
By BROCK READ, Chronicle.com, June 6, 2007
http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/06/2007060604n.htm

"Members of the U.S. House of Representatives quizzed college officials
at a hearing on Tuesday about using technology to block illegal file
sharing on their campuses -- and nudged institutions that have not
adopted such tactics to consider doing so."
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Newsmaker: The copyright buzz from the 'Electric Slide': Richard Silver
explains what all the fuss was about over online videos of the 1970s
line dance he created.
By Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com, June 4, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2h7aa4

The "Electric Slide" now has a Creative Commons license. Just how the
iconic line dance came to be governed by that Internet-friendly license
starts with a video of a software engineer and his friends having a go
at the '70s moves."
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Microsoft expands Live Search Books by including copyright content
By  Zipporah Koganowich, EarthTimes.org, 04 Jun 2007
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/69205.html

"Microsoft announced that it has obtained permission from various
publishers to include copyrighted material into the beta version of its
Live Search Books."
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Blog: A Disturbing Message
By Matt Baker, LividSpot, June 3, 2007
http://fimbaz.blogspot.com/2007/06/prison-time.html

"Some militant UCLA administrator recently put a desktop background with
a vague and threatening message on all of the several hundred residence
hall computers. Probably it was meant to intimidate potential pirates,
but it comes off as pretty ridiculous."
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Does digital file sharing render copyright obsolete?
By Victoria Shannon, International Herald, June 3, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/03/business/rights04.php

BRUSSELS: When the 1980s pop star Robin Gibb writes a song these days,
he says he doesn't think about whether it is copyrighted or licensed -
he devotes himself to his art and lets his handlers see to its legal and
financial well-being."
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UNESCO/PAWA Copyright Workshop
By GhanaBase.com, 2-Jun-2007
http://ghanabase.com/archives/news/2007/1248.asp

"Participants at a two-day UNESCO/PAWA workshop on copyright have called
for a stakeholders forum on the issue of the indigenous use of folklore.
They also wanted more consultations among the Executive, the Legislature
and other relevant stakeholders before laws on copyright were made."
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Webcasters Appeal Royalty Rates
By Roy Mark, InternetNews.com, May 30, 2007
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3680581

"Webcasters went to court today seeking to stave off a Copyright Royalty
Board (CRB) ruling tripling Internet radio royalty rates. Without
intervention by the courts or Congress, the new rates become effective
July 15.

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