Scholars push for freedom from digital copyright restrictions

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Scholars push for freedom from digital copyright restrictions By
Associated Press http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D86ECDM81-322.shtml

"BANGOR, Maine As academic and scholarly journals move toward publishing
in paperless formats, university professors are finding it difficult to
maneuver through copyright laws that restrict how their work can be used."

Fighting file sharing: New law requires e-mail addresses By PATRICK
GIBLINBEE, modbee.com , November 18, 2004
http://www.modbee.com/business/story/9445842p-10355423c.html

"File traders beware:

Gov. Schwarzenegger signed a new law that says anyone who trades
computerized music, movies or game files with 10 or more people a year
must attach their legitimate e-mail address to those files."

CEA Concerned With Copyright Enforcement Wednesday, November 17
http://news.designtechnica.com/article5952.html

"The Consumer Electronics Association expresses serious concern over
components of the Intellectual Property Protection Act."

digital-copyright Digest 24 Nov 2004 16:00:00 -0000 Issue 452

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Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825