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	<description>Restore The Balance</description>
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		<title>World Fair Use Day Has Arrived!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it is awesome.
Public Knowledge Co-Founder and President Gigi B. Sohn has announced their First Annual World Fair Use Day event coming this Tuesday January 12, 2010. This years WFUD event has some great stuff lined up.
From the Public Knowledge site&#8230;
The first annual World&#8217;s Fair Use Day is almost upon us! The festivities kick off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2010/01/09/world-fair-use-day-has-arrived/</link>
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		<title>Happy 5th Annual Fair Use Day</title>
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		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2008/07/11/happy-4th-annual-fair-use-day/</link>
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		<title>2008, the year D.R.M. hits your T.V.</title>
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Recently many television subscribers have started worrying about whether or not they will continue getting what they pay for. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection  (HDCP) has begun rolling out through many service providers and could be in use very soon.  While this will only apply for premium channels and pay-per-views for now, who knows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/12/07/2008-the-year-drm-hits-your-tv/</link>
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		<title>Can Copyright and the DMCA be used to silence critics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I wrote about AT&#038;T&#8217;s terms of service that  included termination of your service if you said critical things about them.  After a great deal of criticism AT&#038;T has changed their terms of service. It now reads in part:
5.1 Suspension/Termination. AT&#038;T respects freedom of expression and believes it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/10/13/can-copyright-and-the-dmca-be-used-to-silence-critics/</link>
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		<title>Support Creative Commons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Creative Commons (CC) is holding their 2007 fundraiser now through Dec 31st and they need your help.  Creative Commons licenses enable artists (an artist is you!) to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others as opposed to an &#8220;all rights reserved&#8221; copyright. For example you can grant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/10/06/support-creative-commons/</link>
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		<title>Sony BMG lawer says copying music you own is stealing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony BMG&#8217;s chief litigator, Jennifer Pariser, made some astonishing statements in the first RIAA file sharing law suit to make it to jury trial this Tuesday.
As reported here, when asked if making even one copy of music they have purchased was wrong Pariser said &#8220;When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/10/04/sony-bmg-lawer-says-copying-music-you-own-is-stealing/</link>
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		<title>AT&amp;T stomps on Americans right to free speech</title>
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&#8220;5.1 Suspension/Termination.   Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such&#8230;&#8230;..[edit] for conduct that AT&#038;T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy; (b) constitutes a violation of any law, regulation or tariff (including, without limitation, copyright and intellectual property laws) or a violation of these TOS, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/29/att-stomps-on-americans-right-to-free-speach/</link>
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		<title>No Lending!</title>
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The internet is abuzz with news about Amazon&#8217;s DRM free MP3 store. Early reports are positive. High bit rate MP3&#8217;s at or below iTunes prices with the top 100 songs costing only $0.89. There is even support for Linux in the works.
On the down side you can&#8217;t re-download tracks you buy so you need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/27/no-lending/</link>
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		<title>Cable Lobbying Group Crushes Consumer Choice, again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was elated when I heard the EPB (Electric Power Board) In Chattanooga announce their Fiber to the Home initiative. But there was a dark cloud looming overhead from the very moment I heard the news. I knew the powerful cable and telephone lobby groups would never let an alternative to their broadband services see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/22/cable-lobbying-group-crushes-consumer-choice-again/</link>
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		<title>Arrrrr! Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!</title>
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Ahoy me maties. Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! If you are trying to find something fun to do on TLAPD check out some of these awesome links.
Learn how to talk like a pirate in English and German.
Generate a pirate name for yourself.
Translate any text into pirate speak.
Read an interview with Cap’n Slappy on TorrentFreak.
YouTube [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/19/arrrrr-happy-talk-like-a-pirate-day/</link>
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		<title>Fair Use industries add $4.5 trillion to economy</title>
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We hear about the millions of dollars the entertainment industry claims to lose due to unauthorised use of copyrighted material all the time. But how much does fair use contribute to the economy? A lot, that&#8217;s how much! A new study commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) found that fair use enabled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/16/fair-use-industries-add-45-trillion-to-economy/</link>
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		<title>MediaDefender Busted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends over at torrentfreak recently discovered a huge cache of internal emails that were made public from MediaDefender. The sole purpose of MediaDefender&#8217;s &#8220;Miivi&#8221; site was to trick people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for it.  These emails discuss everything from Miivi to fake torrents.
From the TorrentFreak article:
&#8220;When TorrentFreak reported that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/15/mediadefender-busted/</link>
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		<title>Free downloads 12, this time games!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our free downloads series here is a new one that has some slightly different content from our usual links. Abandonia Reloaded is a site dedicated to remakes, freeware, and opensource games.  The site has games spanning every genre so there is just about something for everyone there.  So if your looking to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/09/15/free-downloads-12-this-time-games/</link>
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		<title>Viacom steals video, issues take down notice to the artist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Christopher Knight made a video as part of his campaign for Rockingham County Board of Education and posted it on Youtube last fall. A little over a month ago the cable network VH1 took the video he made from Youtube without permission and used it in their for-profit television show Web Junk 2.0. Knight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/08/30/viacom-steals-video-issues-take-down-notice-to-the-artist/</link>
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		<title>US Pirate Party announces registration in Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state  of Utah is one step closer to having another officially recognized political party. The Pirate Party of the United States announced they are accepting statements of support in the state of Utah. This is a first step in the registration process to become officially recognized as a political party. The party has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2007/08/10/us-pirate-party-announces-registration-in-utah/</link>
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