DVDs Take Off

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Jenny Levine on 2003/01/19:

  „DVDs Fast-Forward, Pass VCR Consumer Sales "Consumers pushed the "stop" button on VCRs in 2002 and resoundingly hit "play" for DVD machines, marking a decisive blow in this increasingly one- sided home entertainment battle, industry sales figures showed.“

http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2003/01/ 19.html#a3474 - Cached

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Some slightly related:

DVD Surgery

  „David Appell has more about the dodgy study used to justify the decision, which he says "has serious scientific and methodological flaws." That's putting it nicely, I think, and overall the arguments and the lame statistics coming from the anti-global warming camp increasingly remind me of the desperate attempts by tobacco companies to deny any link between smoking and cancer back in the 50s and 60s.“

Found at a page of Kevin Drum, posted on 2003/06/25

http://www.calpundit.com/archives/ 2003_06.html#001497 - Cached

Federal Relations Updates/E-NEWS

  „In a decisive 7-2 ruling, the Justices upheld an appeals court ruling that the reuse of a freelance author's work on CD-ROMs and in commercial electronic databases without the author's permission constituted copyright infringement. In February 2001, ARL and ALA filed a "friend of the Court" brief to present the library perspective to the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the practical effects of the issues at stake in the case. The brief refuted a number of inaccurate claims and offered constructive ways to balance the rights of freelance authors, commercial electronic database producers, publishers, and the public.“

http://www.arl.org/info/frn/frnmon01.html - Cached

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