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Information Today February 2003 Paula J. Hane	Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo.
Wired February 2003 Frank Rose	The Civil War Inside Sony Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed.
Wired February 2003 Todd Woody	The Race to Kill Kazaa The servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the Pacific. The 60 million users are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the plug.
Information Today January 27, 2003 Marydee Ojala	Infotrieve Is on the Acquisition Path Infotrieve's dual announcements last week---its acquisition of the assets of TheScientificWorld (TSW) and of Ariel software -- position the company to dominate document delivery.
Wired February 2003 Matt Bai	Hating Hilary Napster slayer. Corporate thug. Industry shill. Hilary Rosen has heard it all as the reviled frontwoman for the music biz. Sure, she knows file-sharing is the future. She's just fighting to give the dinosaurs one last gasp.
Wired February 2003 Charles C. Mann	The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please.
PC World January 21, 2003 Joris Evers	New Microsoft Tools Copy Protect CDs and DVDs Software will allow recording companies to restrict what you can do with CDs and DVDs on your computer.
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years.
Salon.com January 17, 2003 Siva Vaidhyanathan	After the copyright smackdown: What next? Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun.
PC World February 2003 Tom Spring	Tool Copies DVD Movies 321 Studios challenges Hollywood, DMCA with release of DVD X copy.
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