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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Book review: New Book Explores Social Costs of Digital Rights Management
by Susan Lang, LinuxElectrons, September 09 2007
http://tinyurl.com/28yyv3

"Ithaca, NY - Copyright law was conceived when only a few people had the
ability to mass-produce intellectual property. Computers and the
Internet, however, have opened a whole new can of worms, allowing almost
anyone to copy almost anything and distribute it widely. Instead of
relying on the enforcement of copyright laws, more and more industries
are relying on such technologies as encryption to protect their
content."
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Press Release: SPARC letter to members on the PRISM anti-open access
effort
Date: September 6, 2007
To: SPARC Members
From: Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director
Re: PRISM anti-open access effort
http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/07-0907prism.html

"I'm writing to bring to your attention the recent launch of an
anti-open access lobbying effort. The initiative, called "PRISM - the
Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine" (
http://www.prismcoalition.org), was launched with development support
from the Association of American Publishers and specifically targets
efforts to expand public access to federally funded research results -
including the National Institute of Health's Public Access Policy."
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Blog: The rhetoric of fair use
by Carlos Ovalle, (c)ollectanea Blog, September 7, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/ynvbok

"Here's one of the subjects I've mentioned in a few places in action:
the rhetoric of fair use. The technology trade group Computer &
Communications Industry Association (CCIA) recently filed a complaint
with the FTC regarding the misleading and overreaching copyright
warnings that appear during sports events, on DVDs and books, and other
places."
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Blog: US court rules that free speech trumps copyright (sometimes)
by Cory Doctorow, boing-boing, September 5, 2007
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/05/us-court-rules-that.html

"A major copyright victory -- the Tenth Circuit court has ruled in favor
of Larry Lessig, et al, in Golan v. Gonzales, a case about the scope of
fair use. The court has acknowledged that First Amendment freedoms must
be considered when copyright law is made."
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Japan: Artists and Right Holders to Build Search Site for Copyright
Information
By Keita Mochizuki, Tech-On!, Sep 04, 2007
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20070904/138725/

"It was revealed in a press conference Aug. 31, 2007, that a group of
artists and right holders organizations in Japan will construct a Web
site that will enable searches of copyright information on literature,
photos and music via the Internet, targeting January 2009."
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The First Close Look at Colleges' Digital Pirates
by BROCK READ, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 September 2007
(subscription required)
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i02/02a00102.htm

"Ms. Elzy and Mr. Arbogast wanted financial support from the industry,
and they got it. The Digital Citizen Project, as Illinois State calls
it, has benefited from considerable entertainment-industry financing,
including an influx ofseveral hundred thousand dollars that came shortly
after the meeting. . Later, Illinois State secured promises that the
information the university collects will not be used to prosecute
students."

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