FW: digital-copyright Digest 7 Feb 2005 16:00:00 -0000 Issue 475

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

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:27:28 -0500
To: digital-copyright@lists.umuc.edu
From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: In The News
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Group urges mass screening of 'Eyes'
By John Kiesewetter, Enquirer.com, February 6, 2005
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050206/ENT/5020603
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"Downhill Battle, a nonprofit organization based in Worcester, Mass., is
urging groups in every major U.S. city to hold screenings Tuesday of 
"Eyes on the Prize," the award-winning civil rights documentary which 
has not been available to the public because of lapsed copyright
licenses."

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Screening will protest copyright laws: "Eyes on the Prize" to be shown 
by activist group
By The Associated Press, MSNBC.com, Feb. 4, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6914918/

NEW YORK - The documentary "Eyes on the Prize," is lauded as the 
quintessential work on the civil rights movement, but don't expect to 
buy a new copy or watch it on PBS any time soon. Legally, that is.

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Senate OKs Anti-Piracy Measure
By Brooks Boliek, Reuters.com,
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=filmNews&storyID=200
5-02-03T081658Z_01_N03216921_RTRIDST_0_FILM-FILM-PIRACY-DC.XML

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - The third time could be the charm for
legislation that would make it a federal crime to camcord a movie and 
would protect the manufacturers of players that edit out purportedly 
offensive content from movies.

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Lawsuits aim to stop file sharing at elite universities
BY JEFF MUSKUS, Yale Daily, February 3, 2005
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=28185

"Some Yale post office boxes may soon be filled with subpoenas if the
University is targeted in the latest wave of anti-file-sharing
litigation."

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Trinity University signs digital music agreement with Cdigix
By SanAntonio Business Journal, February 2, 2005
http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2005/01/31/daily24.
html

"Trinity University has reached an agreement with digital music and media
provider Cdigix that will allow the school's 2,700 students to legally
download music and movies."

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Music lawsuits get students' attention: The recording industry has been 
cracking down on illegal sharing of files.
By JEFFREY PATCH, Demoines REGISTER, February 4, 2005
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050204/NEWS02/
502040406/1004

"Iowa City, Ia. - Todd Lantz vaulted onto a University of Iowa Top 10 
List during his freshman year."

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University policies on piracy reviewed
By Owen Hembry, New Zealand Herald, 04.02.05
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10009487

The spectre of recording industry raids on Australian universities to 
stem the illicit trade of copyright material has not crossed the Tasman 
yet, but as music sales dive the gloves may soon come off. 

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High Noon approaching for Google and academic publishers
4th February 2005
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/69026/high-noon-approaching-for-google-and-a
cademic-publishers.html

"Google is heading for a possible showdown with academic publishers 
according to an article in the latest issue of Nature. It seems that 
while Google has committed itself to putting the contents of the world's
great academic libraries online, it has yet to get the agreement of the 
publishers of copyrighted works."

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Copyright: Public views on copyright law considered
By Business and Finance Hong Kong, February 5, 2005
http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/businessandfinance/050205/html/050205
en03002.htm

"All views collected will be taken into account by the Government when 
drawing up proposals to further improve Hong Kong's legislative regime 
for the protection of copyright, Secretary for Commerce, Industry & 
Technology John Tsang says."

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File-sharing contains risks
By Gabriel Monte, North Texas Daily, February 04, 2005
http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/04/42031bfc27735

"More and more online music stores are allowing consumers to download 
songs cheaply and legally, but the practice of downloading music 
illegally through peer-to-peer services does not seem to be
diminishing."

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Senate Passes Camcorder Piracy Bill
By Reuters.com, Feb 2, 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=75179
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who secretly videotape movies when they are
shown in theaters could go to prison for up to three years under a bill
approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate.

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