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Google Book Search and orphan works. By Georgia Harper, Collectanea,
November 1, 2008.
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

"So, what's so new? Everything. This isn't the Congressional approach to
problem solving (shove the parties into a room and lock the door until
they have reached an agreement -- and may the strongest interest
obliterate the weaker and we'll call it a compromise in the public
interest)."

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Harvard Professor Offers New Challenge to RIAA Antipiracy Campaign
By Jaikumar Vijayan, ComputerWorld, October 30, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5ssk75

"Nesson claims Digital Theft Act, on which RIAA lawsuits are based, is
unconstitutional."
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Harvard Refuses To Open In-Copyright Books to Google
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, October 31, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/64fc7h

"Harvard has refused to join Google's in-copyright book-scanning project
despite a recent agreement to settle copyright-infringement lawsuits
from book publishers and authors, saying the deal has too many potential
limitations on electronic access to works."
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MTV, MySpace: The New Ad Men of Piracy
By Brian Kraemer, ChannelWeb, November 3, 2008
http://www.crn.com/software/212000095

"MTV Networks and MySpace have contracted third-party technology company
Auditude to track pirated videos that are uploaded to the social
networking site and provide the option to serve ads to the content or
have them pulled."
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Google's New Monopoly?
By James Gibson, The Washington Post, November 3, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5642dv
"How the Company Could Gain by Paying Millions in Copyright Fees."
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Games Firms 'Catching' Non-Gamers
By BBC America, BBC, October 30, 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7697898.stm

"Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack
down on pirates, a which? computing investigation has claimed."
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad (c) ?
By Doug Johnson, School Library Journal, October 1, 2008
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6600687.html&;
"Few subjects spark more disagreement and confusion than copyright. As
an information professional, I'm often not certain that I have a firm
grasp of it. And I'm not alone."                    ---------
Looking at Students and P2P - With Data
By Andy Guess, Inside Higher Ed, insidehighered.com, October 31, 2008
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/p2p

"Between the deluge of litigation from the entertainment industry and
defiant opposition from college students, is there a way out of the
deadlock surrounding the debate on peer-to-peer file sharing?"
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Fair Use and the Election
By Leslie Harris, ABC News, October 31, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6156237&page=1
"News Organizations Have Gone After Both Campaigns for Using Snippets of
Broadcasts Without Their Permission."
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Tony Clement New Copyright Minister
By p2pnet News View, ptpnet.net, October 31, 2008
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17435

"Yesterday p2pnet said Jim Prentice was back as industry minister in
Stephen Harper's old new government."
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Participants Ready Agendas for New-Look WIPO Copyright Committee
By William New, Intellectual Property Watch, October 31, 2008
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1297

"World Intellectual Property Organization members gather in Geneva next
week to take up old and new agenda items targeting international policy
on copyright and related rights."
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Copyright dispute among RIAV, FPT Telecom, and Nokia Vietnam: no
settlement reached
By Thanh Chung, VietNamNet Bridge, October 31, 2008
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/10/811211/

"No settlement has been reached in talks between the Recording Industry
Association of Vietnam (RIAV) and FPT Telecom over allegations of
copyright infringement of recorded music."
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Nigeria: MCSN Can Sue Nu Metro Others over Copyrights Infringement
By Innocent Anaba, Vanguard, November 1, 2008
http://allafrica.com/stories/200811010062.html

"A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has held that the Musical
Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN), has the locus standing to bring the
suit against three South African firm, for importing into the country,
musical recordings and reproducing same for distribution and sales,
without its (Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria) permission."
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A senior executive of Nokia in Southest Asia arrived in Ho Chi Minh City
on Friday to meet Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV) for
allegation of copy infringements.
By Thanh Chung, VietNamNet Bridge, November 1, 2008
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/11/811388/

"Nokia Vietnam has been alleged allowing its customers to download 1,000
copyrighted songs from a 10,000 song database through a FPT website."
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Musicians Descend on Bosomprah and Say He Must Be Sacked From Office
By Regina Ani-Awukubea, The Statesman, November 1, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/57ups4

"The Ghana Music Owners Rights Protection Society has called on
Government to dismiss B. K. Bosomprah, the Copyright Administrator, with
immediate effect."
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Google Pays Small Change to Open Every Book in the World
By John Naughton, The Observer, November 2, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/02/google-books-scanning-librar
ies

"The big puzzle about the 'ground-breaking settlement' announced last
week between Google and its legal opponents, the Authors Guild and the
Association of American Publishers, is whether it really is - as all
parties claim - a victory for everyone."
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Mformation Sues RIM for Patent Information
Posted By Leslie Katz, Cnet News, November 1, 2008
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10080681-94.html

"According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern
California, RIM is infringing on two of Mformation's patents, U.S.
Patent Nos. 6,970,917 and 7,343,408, by making, using, and selling RIM's
BlackBerry devices and their management software."
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News Corp's MySpace Takes on Copyright Infringement
Posted by Julia Boorstin, CNBC, November 3, 2008
http://www.cnbc.com/id/27520377

"News Corp got a great deal when it snapped up social network MySpace
for $580 million, but only now is it tackling an issue that should allow
it to profit from a lot of the video posted on its site."

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