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["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

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Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you're out. By Cory
Doctorow, The Guardian, July 1, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/3p6df4

I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company
that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and
you're out, mate.

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Copyright Office Would Deny Key TV License To Internet. By Ted Hearn,
Multichannel News, July 1, 2008.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6574635.html

In a report to Congress Monday, the U.S. Copyright Office said companies
that intend to stream local TV signals over the Internet should be
denied a key copyright license that cable operators use to distribute
the same signals.

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Blog: RIAA 'Making Available' Argument: File Sharers 'Freeload'. By
David Kravets, Wired Blog Network, June 30, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5roz4e

The Recording Industry Association of America on Monday urged a federal
judge to leave intact a $222,000 jury verdict against Jammie Thomas, the
Minnesota mother of two who has become a public symbol of the RIAA's
litigation campaign of more than 20,000 copyright lawsuits against
peer-to-peer file sharers.

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Judge quashes mod chip seller's conviction, blames prosecution error.
Out-Law News, June 30, 2008.
http://www.out-law.com/page-9217

A man who ran a business selling computer chips that helped games
consoles play pirated games has had his conviction for copyright
infringement overturned on appeal. The High Court judge called him
"fortunate" and criticised the prosecution case.

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A Look Back at Canarsie, Clouded by Copyright Woes. By Jake Mooney, New
York Times, June 29, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/4hkd48

The photograph, in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society,
showed a group of people having drinks at Whittaker's Hotel, a
long-disappeared way station in Canarsie that once served travelers
bound for the Rockaways. It was just what Brian Merlis, who publishes
books of historical Brooklyn photographs, wanted.

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Blog: Where is that "buy me now" button for Copyright? By Rusell
McOrmond, IT World Canada, June 28, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5fkkam

Much of the copyright debate reads like fiction. People supposedly find
content on the Internet which has a "buy me now" button and a "take
without paying" button, and they choose the latter. The non-fiction
version of this story is very different. For the vast majority of
content which people can acquire illegally on the Internet, there is no
way to purchase the same thing legally.

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In Lawsuit, University Asserts That Downloading Copyrighted Texts Is
Fair Use. By Andrea Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27,
2008.
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/06/3583n.htm

In a closely watched copyright-infringement lawsuit, Georgia State
University fired back this week at its accusers, three academic
publishers that say the institution invites students to illegally
download and print readings from thousands of works. The university
asserts that its online distribution of course material is permitted
under copyright law's fair-use exemption.

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Copyright legislation delayed until fall. By Kathryn Leger, The Gazette,
June 27, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/3w8vcc

With the close of Parliament last week, controversial Canadian copyright
law reform that would have put clear legal limits on the downloading of
free music from the Internet and the making of personal copies of
television shows and films has been pushed forward at least to the fall.

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Copyright Developments: New Zealand. By Cherie Lawrence and Andrew
Matangi, ALB Legal News, June 27, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/4yugxf

The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (the Amendment Act)
received royal assent on 11 April 2008 (most of the Amendment Act comes
into force on a date still to be set by Order in Council). The Amendment
Act is intended to update the Copyright Act 1994 (the Act) to reflect
international copyright developments and to make the Act more technology
neutral.

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Jury Convicts Web Site Operator in P2P Case. By Grant Gross, IDG News
Service, June 27, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/4vqt2w

A former administrator at EliteTorrents.org has been convicted of
conspiracy and felony copyright infringement in a Virginia court, the
first time in the U.S. that a peer-to-peer user has been convicted by a
jury of copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed
Friday.


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