In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Google Reaches $125 Million Settlement in Book Copyright Lawsuits
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, October 28, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6f2o77

"The deal with book publishers and authors would clear the way for
Google Book Search to show digitized images of millions of in-copyright
books and other library materials."
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Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA
By EFF.org, October 28, 2009
http://www.eff.org/files/DMCAUnintended10.pdf

"This document, Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA,
collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the
DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers,
scientists, and legitimate competitors."
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Next Step for Blackboard and Open Source
By Andy Guess, Inside Higher Ed, October 28, 2008
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/28/moodle

"Although Blackboard remains the course management system of choice for
colleges, a small but flourishing community of developers still attracts
growing interest in open-source alternatives among some institutions and
individual departments."
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Macmillan Wins Copyright Case on Tourist Map
By Benson Wambugu, Business Daily, October 29, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6ywsag

"Macmillan Kenya has won a 13-year legal battle to keep the copyright of
a tourist guide map."
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Google Wants Records of Viacom's Copyright Cop
By contactmusic.com, contactmusic.com, October 28, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5dj6zw

"Even after filing a $1-billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against
Google's YouTube, Viacom secretly uploaded content onto the video
website for promotional purposes, then asked its copyright policing
service, BayTSP, to ignore those clips and not demand that YouTube
remove them, Google claimed in documents filed in federal court in San
Jose on Monday."
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Black screen angers users in China
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6nqvta

"Microsoft's anti-piracy add-on turns computer screens black every hour.
Use of pirated software is common in China. Consumers are bristling, and
a copyright official criticizes the blackout method."
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Happy Birthday Digital Millennium Copyright Act
By Gillian Reagan, the New York Observer, October 28, 2008
http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/happy-birthday-digital-media-copyright-a
ct

"Cheers to you! Most people hate ya, but apparently you saved the
Internet!"
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Google: Now Somewhat Less of a Copyright Scofflaw
By Joel West, Seeking Alpha, October 29, 2008
 http://tinyurl.com/6pooa4

"Google has a reached a settlement with book publishers and authors that
objected to its unilateral decision to scan their copyrighted works and
give limited amounts of content away to the world with the Google Books
program."
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Search Engine Cache Does Not Infringe Copyright, Rules US Court
By OUT-LAW News, OUT-LAW.com, October 29, 2008
http://www.out-law.com/page-9541

"A court has ruled that Yahoo! and Microsoft had an implied license to
copy and display pages from a website because the operator of that site
knew how the search engines' opt-out procedures worked but chose to
ignore them."
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Copyright Term Gets Brussels Hearing
By Robert Ashton, MusicWeek, October 29, 2008
http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035991&c=1

"The legal affairs committee of the European Parliament is opening its
public hearing on copyright term next Tuesday."
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Ex-Kazaaer Wants to Turn Pirates into Paying Customers
By Joel Hruska, Ars Technica, October 28, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6kjfdk

"Kevin Bermeister and Michael Speck, former courtroom adversaries in the
file-sharing wars, have since formed an alliance and are preparing to
launch a new application that they claim will turn would-be pirates into
customers (reluctant or otherwise)."

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