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["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

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Congress urges peace talks in Net radio conflict
By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, June 28, 2007
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6193933.html

Members of Congress on Thursday expressed reluctance to intervene in a
raging conflict over new Internet radio fees scheduled to take effect in
scarcely two weeks, saying they hope Webcasters and the record industry
can work things out.

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Blog: What publishing can learn from the iPhone
By Georgia Harper, (C)ollectanea Blog,  June 27, 2007
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

"Are you anticipating the launch of the iPhone in two days? Are you at
this moment in a line to buy one? You could be. You probably aren't. But
if things go even a little bit like everyone is predicting they will,
the iPhone will change your life whether you have one or not. Take, for
example, the post at Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age -- Apples
and Changes: What publishing can learn from the iPhone. The author sees
the triumph of the multi-use device as the big story here, with profound
implications for publishing. I don't disagree, actually, but from my
perspective, it's another example of the triumph of "show me the money."
Once any content industry figures out how it can make more of it from
letting loose than from holding tight, it will let loose. Copyright
won't have to change for this to happen. It will just slip into the
background from whence it came (before the Internet)."

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FTC urges cautious approach on net neutrality laws
Associated Press, June 27, 2007
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6242974

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended
against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic. Deborah
Platt Majoras said policymakers should proceed cautiously on the issue
of "net neutrality," which is the notion that all online traffic should
be treated equally by Internet service providers.

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Two-tiered net could be coming
BBC News, June 26, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6241386.stm

Net providers (ISPs) may start charging some websites for faster access
to customers, a report has predicted.

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Victim of Dropped RIAA Lawsuit Sues RIAA, Alleges Illegal Investigation
of US Citizens
By Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired Blog Network, June 25, 2007
http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/06/victim-of-dropp.html

Tanya Andersen, who had been defending herself against a RIAA lawsuit
for about two years before the RIAA dropped its case, has launched an
offensive against her former accusers, filing suit today against the
RIAA. Andersen's complaint claims the RIAA's methods are criminal, and
that their lawyers are needlessly vicious in pursuing defendants.

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Online video recorders stoke new piracy concerns
By Reuters/CNET.com, June 23, 2007
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6192924.html

It took Brian Baker only five minutes to persuade a major U.S.
television network that it needed his company's technology to protect
their programs from Web pirates. Using software easily found on the
Internet, Baker, chief executive of Widevine Technologies, recorded a
video clip stream from that network's Web site, stripped out the
commercials and sent the company back the altered video.

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More online classes, more online cheating
By Justin Pope, Associated Press, June 23, 2007
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6211742

The number of college students taking courses online is surging,
creating a dilemma for educators who want to prevent cheating. Do you
trust students to take an exam on their own computer from home or work,
even though it may be easy to sneak a peek at the textbook? Or do you
force them to trek to a proctored test center, detracting from the
convenience that drew them to online classes in the first place?
The dilemma is one reason many online programs do little testing at all.
But some new technology that places a camera inside students' homes may
be the way of the future - as long as students don't find it too creepy.

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Judge Denies S.J. Motions in YouTube Copyright Case
By Matthew Belloni, The Hollywood Reporter, June 22, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/yrmuo2

The judge in the first copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube
has denied both sides' motions for summary judgment, ruling that more
evidence is necessary to determine whether Google's video-sharing giant
is shielded from liability by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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Google seeks U.S. government support in fighting Internet censorship
abroad
By Associated Press, June 22, 2007
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6204278?nclick_check=1

Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is
seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship
worldwide. The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the
problem by asking U.S. trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as
international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global
commerce, such as tariffs.

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Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC

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