In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Japan: Extending copyright carries complications
By Yoshikazu Suzuki, Daily Yomiuri Online, Nov 6, 2007
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20071106TDY04302.htm

"A ministerial subpanel debating a proposal to extend copyright
protection periods is sharply divided between those on the panel
sympathetic to copyright holders who want to extend the period and
members cautious about the idea."
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Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infringement Across the
Web
By Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch.com, November 4 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2ha5fo

"Every media company on the planet knows that its articles, songs,
photos, and videos are being copied and spread willy-nilly across the
Web, but they don't have a clue what to do about it. They are not even
sure what to do about all of their stuff that is just on YouTube (should
they let Google monitor itself or create some vague industry guidelines
and hope that every site follows them?)."
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Canada: Broadcasters Denounce Music Labels' Copyright Demand
By Daily News Monday, November 05, 2007
http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=75898&issue=1
1052007

"The membership of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters adopted a
resolution opposing the music labels' copyright payment demand at their
Annual General Meeting in Ottawa."
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How Big Media's Copyright Campaigns Threaten Internet Free Expression
By Cory Doctorow, InformationWeek, November 5, 2007
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20280230
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"Big media companies' efforts to extend copyright are hurting creators'
abilities to find audiences for their work, argues cyber-rights activist
Cory Doctorow."
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University of Oregon Refusing to Help ID Music Pirates
The Associated Press, Law.com, November 2, 2007
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1193994231539

"A lawsuit brought by the recording industry is pitting piracy against
privacy. Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers filed court papers this
week seeking to free the University of Oregon from having to identify
students who illegally downloaded music."
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Website, Lawsuits Take Aim at Pirates
By Stuart J. Johnston, Internet News.com, November 2, 2007
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3709011

"Microsoft made another incremental step in its long-running antipiracy
program this week, suing 20 alleged sellers of pirated software in 13
states, as well as launching a new educational site for users."
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Filmmakers chat on copyright issues: AFM panel discusses proper use
By ELSA BERTET, Variety.com, Nov. 4, 2007
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975360.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

"Documentary and feature filmmakers gathered Sunday to hash out the
proper uses of copyrighted material at the AFM panel "What's So Fair
About Fair Use."
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Blog: Second Life Patent and Trademark Office
By Brett Trout Blog
http://blog.bretttrout.com/2007/11/second-life-patent-and-trademark-offi
ce.html

"According to Virtually Blind, Second Life players FlipperPA Peregrine
(aka Tim Allen) and Michael Eckstein have opened up a virtual Second
Life Patent and Trademark Office (SLPTO) within the video game"
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(Detailed Interview)
Blog: SLPTO Offers Second Life Content Creators Suite of Intellectual
Property Protection Tools
By Benjamin Duranske, Virtually Blind, October 29th, 2007
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Blog: Bad Quote of the Week: Copyright matters.
By Steven Shaviro, The Pinocchio Theory, November 2nd, 2007
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=605

"I have found myself recently wondering about the copyright terms for
academic publications. Whenever an article of mine has been accepted for
publication either in a journal, or in a book of essays by various
authors, I have to sign a contract, or perhaps just an agreement on the
assignment of copyright (I am a bit hazy on the legal distinctions here,
which is one of the problems)."
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Papers:
IPI Policy Report - # 189
The True Cost of Copyright Industry Piracy to the U.S. Economy
By Stephen E. Siwek on 10/03/2007
http://tinyurl.com/2hz7bz

"Widespread piracy of motion pictures, recorded music, software, and
electronic games harms the companies that design, create and sell these
products. Since many of these are American companies, the harm of global
copyright piracy falls disproportionately on U.S. industry, its
stockholders and employees, and on federal, state and local governments
that lose tax revenue due to piracy. "
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The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis (with
F. Oberholzer).
Journal of Political Economy. 2007. 115(1):1-42.
http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/JPE%2031618%20FileSharing%202006-12-12.
pdf

For industries ranging from software to pharmaceuticals and
entertainment, there is an intense debate about the appropriate level of
protection for intellectual property. The Internet provides a natural
crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection because it
drastically lowers the cost of copying information. In this paper, we
analyze whether file sharing has reduced the legal sales of music."
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New Library Director Calls for E-Scholarship
By ANGELA A. SUN, Harvard Crimson, October 31, 2007
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=520414

"Darnton says he wants to "move into the world of digitized information"
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OU plays host to file-sharing discussion panel after RIAA crackdown on
illegal downloaders
By David Hendricks, The Post, October 30, 2007
http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2007/10/30/21996/

An eight-member panel will discuss file sharing and its effects on the
music industry today, nine months after Ohio University garnered
national attention for receiving more copyright complaints from the
recording industry than any other U.S. university."

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