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I’ll be getting back to my deconstruction of copyright next week. Here’s what’s been floating around the web and blogosphere in the past week…

While most discussions about copyright infringement and the internet is focused on users as infringers, Digital Copyright Canada picks up on the itWorldCanada article We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source). Monica Hesse of the Washington Post also writes about the topic, focusing on corporate misuse of copyrighted photos.

The Crave blog finds software that allows users to record free, unlimited MP3 audio with your cell phone and hardware to share content between iPods.

Both Michael Geist and Russell McOrmond pick up on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s public letter to the Industry Minister and Canadian Heritage Minister on the impacts DMCA-style legislation has on privacy.

The Vancouver Sun also publishes an article arguing that reformed copyright laws shouldn’t suppress creativity.

Meanwhile, Howard Knopf picks up on another camcording bust.

And I’m still behind on my reading of some blogs I recently discovered:

• Northworthy
• ©ollectanea
• Scrutiny
• The Patry Copyright Blog

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I couldn’t help but notice and bookmark some of the articles about Prince’s crusade against legitimate piracy and legitimate fair use. I suspect this one will be an interesting one to watch, because he seems to be targeting everyone, whether legitimately or not.

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