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RECENT ITEMS FROM THE CIP COLLECTANEA BLOG:

Blog: The commentary sometimes outstrips the story. By Georgia Harper,
Collectanea, July 8, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/62ej9x

Open Access business models are numerous. There's no magic path to OA.
But some high-profile efforts have been around long enough to warrant
analysis. So Declan Butler writes an article about PLoS (Public Library
of Science), which he calls the "poster child for open-access, that
appears in Nature News, ironically not open to anyone who does not have
a subscription: <Access: PLoS stays afloat with bulk publishing: Nature
News.>

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Blog: Blaming The Flickr API For Copyright Infringement? By Tom Lee,
TechDirt, July 9, 2008.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080708/0905171621.shtml

The Fourth of July is over, but for some Flickr users the holiday's
revolutionary spirit is still running strong. Apparently over the
weekend a company called MyxerTones made Flickr's entire photographic
catalog available for sale as cellphone wallpaper -- regardless of the
license selected by each photo's owner.

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Press Release: WIPO Workshop to Probe Copyright Issues Arising from the
Preservation of Digital Content.
PressZoom, July 9, 2008.
http://presszoom.com/story_145255.html

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with
the International Digital Preservation and Copyright initiative (IDPC)
is organizing a one-day workshop on July 15, at WIPO's Geneva
headquarters, to survey recent developments and trends at the
intersection of digital preservation and copyright. The aim of the
workshop is to contribute to the debate on how to develop and improve
policies and practices that support the digital preservation of
copyright-protected content.

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Security matters: Gunning for the copyright pirates. By Danny Bradbury,
Financial Times, July 8 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5qlntq

Peter Anaman works for law firm Covington and Burling, but rather than
sorting through briefs all day, he sifts IP addresses. Mr Anaman is an
internet investigator and co-ordinates a team that tracks down software
pirates.

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Blog: Threads of copyright abuse. By Ed Foster, InfoWorld, July 08,
2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6ld68c

How far will copyright "protection" organizations go in threatening end
users with highly-questionable infringement claims? Far enough to claim
that victims of counterfeiters are infringers themselves, as the
continuing practices of the Embroidery Software Protection Coalition
(ESPC) demonstrate.

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Govt will stop illegal broadcasts during Games. By Xie Chuanjiao, China
Daily, July 8, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5spxog

Authorities are determined to prevent unauthorized companies and
individuals from broadcasting Olympic events, an official from the
National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) said Monday. "No
website, mobile phone platform or individual is permitted to transmit
audio and video information regarding the Beijing Olympic Games or
events within the mainland without a copyright or copyright holders'
authorizations," Xu Chao, deputy director of the copyright management
department of the NCAC, told a press conference in Beijing.

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Blog: Canada - Bloc Leader Wants ISPs Liable for Copyright Infringement.
By Drew Wilson, ZeroPaid.com, July 7, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5vs4r3

The copyright reform debate in Canada has a new twist - and it comes
from the party that wants to separate Quebec from Canada. Bloc leader
Gilles Duceppe answered a concerned Canadian's letter over bill C-61
with what his stance is.

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Judge Suspends Recording-Industry Subpoena Served on N.C. University. By
Andrea Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6ezyut

A federal judge has become skeptical of tactics used by the recording
industry to identify students at North Carolina State University
suspected of swapping music online in violation of copyright law.

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YouTube Users Vent Anger In Anti-Viacom Videos. By Thomas Claburn,
InformationWeek, July 7, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5nqu95

Viacom (VIAB) has reassured the YouTube community that it only wants
YouTube viewer log data to prove its copyright case against Google
(NSDQ: GOOG), but the YouTube community hasn't gotten the message.
Rather, the video-sharing site's users have launched an expletive-laden
counterattack, calling for a boycott of the media giant.

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Press Release: Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for
User-Generated Content Released. By American University, PR Web, July 7,
2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5qyluf

American University's Center for Social Media announces the release of a
new code of best practices in fair use for creators in the burgeoning
online video environment. The code, grounded in the practices of online
video makers and in the law, was collaboratively created by a team of
scholars and lawyers from leading universities. It was coordinated by
American University professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi.

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Blog: The End of Internet Privacy? A Look the Viacom-Google Order. By
Dan Slater, Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5h4lxj

Last week, in the context of Viacom's $1 billion copyright suit against
Google's YouTube, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to
turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on
YouTube. To give you an idea of how many users might be affected by the
order, the WSJ reports that, according to comScore, Google sites, which
include YouTube, were the top U.S. video property in April, with more
than 4.1 billion videos viewed, or 38% of all online videos.

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Google forced onto back foot in copyright battle. By Commday & Ian
Scales, TelecomTV, July 7, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5uu4p4

Last week's US court ruling, which instructed Google to hand over its
video download records complete with users' names and IP addresses, has
caused a predictable storm of protest from privacy groups in the US and
a promise from Google that it will appeal the ruling.

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Blog: Science 2.0 and rights protection. By Martin McBrown,
ComputerWorld, July 7, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6p3caa

I was reading in Scientific American about how modern scientists and
researchers are beginning to use web technologies, including blogs,
wikis and social networks. So-called Science 2.0 is trying to take
advantage of the same technology used by other groups to provide tools
for sharing knowledge, research notes and experience. But not everybody
is happy.

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EU on track for 95-year copyright. By Ben Cardew, MusicWeek, July 7,
2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5pcpp6

The music industry is confident that copyright term extension in Europe
remains on track, with European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy's draft
proposal to change the term of protection directive still likely to be
delivered before the end of this month.

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Don't forget authors of digitalized works. By The Yomiuri Shimbun, July
5, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6olpsq

The so-called dubbing 10 system, which allows up to 10 copies of digital
TV programs to be made, was launched Friday in time for the Beijing
Olympics, during which many people likely will spend more time than
usual watching TV. Under the previous so-called copy-once system, users
were able to copy a digital
TV program once. But this restriction has been eased under the new
dubbing 10 system.

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EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing. By Kimberly Chow, AP,
July 3, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6pstrf

The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned
Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt
musicians and the songs they write. The European Commission, the EU's
executive arm, is close to finishing an antitrust investigation into how
royalties are collected. The outcome might help large music retailers
like Apple Inc.'s iTunes sell from one store across Europe, rather than
different stores with different products in each of the 27 EU nations.

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Blog: Campus copyright battle moves to textbook torrents. By John
Timmer, ArsTechnica, July 1, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/3jb26p

The RIAA's extensive campaign against filesharing has drawn in a lot of
individuals, but college campuses have remained a major target of the
content owners' legal threats. It's pretty clear that there's
significant expertise with filesharing on college campuses, so it
shouldn't come as a surprise that this expertise has been put to use
with other copyrighted materials. Textbook companies are getting worried
about the sharing of their bread-and-butter online, and have started a
campaign designed to block the sharing at its source.
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