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Blog: Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook. By Vindu Goel,
Bits/NY Times, July 29, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6ayjxm

Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian
users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook.

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Senate panel to debate radio rules, royalty rates. AP/Forbes.com, July
29, 2008.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/07/29/ap5263613.html

Executives from Geffen Records and online music site Pandora Media - as
well the artist behind Five for Fighting - will testify before a Senate
panel on Tuesday about radio's rules of the road in a new media world.

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Blog: Canadian government creates secret copyright advisory panel. By
Rich Fiscus, AfterDawn.com, July 28, 2008.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14939.cfm

Canadian government creates secret copyright advisory panel In May
Canadian journalists began reporting on their government's involvement
in drafting a controversial new intellectual property treaty with other
affluent countries including the US. It turns out that's not the only
copyright-related activity they've been hiding from their citizens.

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Blog: New RIAA Lawsuit Defense Tactic: Admit Liability, Challenge the
Law. By David Kravets, Wired Blog Network, July 28, 2008.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/new-riaa-lawsui.html

Here's a unique defense to a Recording Industry Association of America
file sharing lawsuit: Admit liability and challenge the law under which
you're being sued.

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Blog: Fair Use Prevails Over Michael Savage's Copyright Claims. Posted
by Kurt Opsahl, EFF DeepLinks Blog, July 28th, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5m9gyl

On Friday, a U.S. District Court granted the motion for judgment on the
pleadings we and our co-counsel Tom Burke of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
filed in a copyright infringement suit brought by talk show host Michael
Savage against the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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Illegal sharing is not killing music but scary letters might. By Emily
Bell, The Guardian, July 28, 2008.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/28/internet.musicindustry

The threatening letter on the doormat about licence fee non-payment
might soon be joined by another from your local internet service
provider. At least it will if you have been virally spreading Coldplay
without permission.

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First it was downloads. Now it's organic chemistry. By Randall Stross,
International Herald Tribune, July 27, 2008.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/27/technology/27digi.php

After scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to
download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org
composed a colorful message for "all publishers" of college textbooks,
warning them that "myself and all other students are tired of getting"
ripped off.

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BSA Applauds US Senate for Introduction of the New Copyright Bill.
ag-IP-news, July 27, 2008.
http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=6134&lang=en

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) President and CEO Robert Holleyman
issued on Thursday the following statement on the Introduction of New
Senate Copyright Bill.

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Copyright sales could put EMI back on song. By Dominic Rushe, Times
Online, July 27, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/55u9ho

Four floors above the bustle of Chelsea Market, a foodie paradise in
Manhattan, are the quiet and spacious offices of EMI Publishing.
Visitors enter an airy atrium with a grand piano where some of EMI's
stars have played informal gigs. In this tranquil space it's hard to
believe this is a company in turmoil. That's because this part of it is
not.

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Senator fuses controversial IP bills into big, bad package. By Julian
Sanchez, ArsTechnica, July 25, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/69x9vj

Intellectual property legislation introduced in the Senate on Thursday
would combine elements of two controversial IP enforcement bills: The
PRO-IP Act, which passed the House by a wide margin in May, and the
PIRATE Act, which has won Senate approval several times since its first
introduction in 2004.

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Press Release: "Best Practices for Locating Copyright Owners of
Photographic and Visual Art" Released. DesignerToday, July 25, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/6e5ktg

The American Society of Picture Professionals has released guidelines
entitled "ASPP's Best Practices for Locating Copyright Owners of
Photographic and Visual Art". This guide is intended to be a "living
document" and will be continually updated as new registries and
technologies become available. This version 2.0 contains many useful
links to organizations and other places where one can access
information.

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Redlasso Suspends Blogger Access After Video Copyright Suit. CNN
Money/Dow Jones Newswire, July 25, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/5cmmja

Redlasso Inc. said Friday that it has suspended blogger access to its
video search-and-clipping Web site after it was sued by NBC Universal
Inc., Fox News Network LLC and Fox Television Stations Inc. earlier this
week for copyright infringement.

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Manufacturers warned over use of copyright Games logos. Shanghai Daily,
July 25, 2008.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=368066&type=National

The Olympic rings and "Beijing 2008" are among the most frequently
infringed Olympic logos, a Chinese official said yesterday.

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Research and Markets: Examine the Paradoxical Nature of Copyright as
Tensions Exist Between Copyright Law & Free Speech.
MarketWatch.com/BusinessWire, July 24, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/64x2pl

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Copyright's
Paradox" report to their offering. In Copyrights Paradox, Neil Weinstock
Netanel explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech,
revealing how copyright can impose unacceptable burdens on expression.

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Blog: UK ISPs Move Down The Slippery Slope Of Becoming Copyright Cops.
By Mike Masnick, TechDirt, July 24, 2008.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080724/0413391778.shtml

Some UK politicians have been pushing to get ISPs to play the role of
copyright cops for an unclear reason. It appears they've bought into the
misleading and incorrect claim by the music industry that somehow ISPs
are responsible for the record labels own failure to adapt its business
model.

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Experts attack Big Content's EU copyright power-grab. By Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica, July 22, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/67qwnc

Now that the EU plan to retroactively add 45 years of copyright
protection to old sound recordings looks set to keep the work of the 50s
and 60s locked up for another half century, resistance is solidifying.

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Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman on Google's 'rogue company'. By Greg
Sandoval, Cnet News.com, July 22, 2008.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9996383-93.html

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman doesn't typically bash Google in the press.
While Google CEO Eric Schmidt has publicly ridiculed Viacom for filing a
$1 billion copyright claim against Google and YouTube, Dauman is usually
more reserved.

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Blog: HDNet Founder Mark Cuban and Google Spar Over Copyright at FCC
Hearing. By William Korver, BroadbandCensus.com, July 21 ,2008.
http://broadbandcensus.com/blog/?p=141

The founder of a high-definition cable television channel and a top
content official with Google sparred at an FCC field hearing on Monday
over the role that search engines should play in policing broadband
content for copyright violation.

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