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4th Circuit Affirms Software
Engineers Verdict.

By Barbara Grzincic, The Daily Record, December 8, 2008.

http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=150587&type=Daily



The decision is a
win for Juan Altmayer Pizzorno, who claimed that L-Soft continued to sell his
copyrighted work in conjunction with its own popular LISTSERV product for
years
after he terminated its contract over a royalty dispute.

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New System Can Improve Video-sharing Web Sites Like YouTube.

ScienceDaily, December 8, 2008.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208114308.htm



As video sharing websites like YouTube continue to grow in
popularity, so do challenges around proper labeling of videos and monitoring
for copyright infractions.

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Coldwater Creek Loses Copyright Lawsuit.

By the Statesman Staff, The Idaho
Statesman, December 8, 2008.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/business/story/598002.html



A California-based womens and mens accessories company has won a
$6.7 million lawsuit against the Coeur dAlene-based Coldwater Creek womens
clothing chain for infringing on its intellectual property right.

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This Fair-use Guide Offers Copyright Shelter.

By Meris Stansbury, eSchool News, December 8,
2008.

http://tinyurl.com/5lj3zd



Media and legal experts create a code to help
teachers and students understand fair use of copyrighted materials.

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Obama Embraces Creative Commons.

By Ben Jones, TorrentFreak, December 2, 2008.

http://torrentfreak.com/obama-embraces-creative-commons-081202/



US President-Elect Barack Obama is a man with a message, and
according to the speeches made during his campaign, that message is Change.
One of those changes has been somewhat of a snub to the creative industries
and
their lobby groups - the embracing of Creative Commons licensing.

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Apple Wins Copyright Case in China: State Media.

AFP, December 2, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/58gbjs



US electronics giant Apple Inc has won a trademark
infringement suit against a Chinese corporation that used a logo similar to
the
US company's distinctive symbol, state media reported Tuesday.

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Harvard Team: Let Consumers Hack Abandonware.

By Chris Soghoian, CNet News, December 3, 2008.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10112022-46.html



When a digital rights management-based music, video, or software
product shuts down, as has happened in the past with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo
and Wal-Mart Stores, one thing
is guaranteed: customers lose legal access to works for which they paid.

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DMCA Exemptions Desired to Hack iPhones, DVDs.

By By Chris Soghoian, CNet News, December 3, 2008.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10112046-46.html



For copyright activists, Christmas comes but once every three
years: a chance to ask Santa for a new exemption to the much-hated Digital
Millennium Copyright Act's
prohibitions against hacking, reverse engineering, and evasion of digital
rights management (DRM) schemes protecting all kinds of digital works and
electronic items.

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Award-winning Open Source
Doc Looks at Digital Copyright.

Media Caster Magazine,
December 3, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/6od5pe



Montreal filmmaker Brett
Gaylor's documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto looked at copyright issues in the
digital age has taken a top
prize at the 21st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. A mash-up
in
itself, RiP is described as the worlds first Open Source documentary,
shattering the wall between users and producers, and challenging the
thresholds
of fair use. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares
his
raw footage for anyone to remix.

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Press Release: SAFE Corporation Releases SourceDetective, Internet
Search for Software Plagiarism Detection.

Market Watch, the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, December 3,
2008.

http://tinyurl.com/5l7cxa



Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation ( www.SAFE-corp.biz),
the leading
provider of software tools for detecting and measuring software intellectual
property, has just released SourceDetective(TM), a tool in its CodeSuite(R)
set
of software tools for comparing computer code to detect plagiarism, copyright
infringement, and trade secret theft.

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European Booksellers Slam Google Book Settlement.

By Andrew Albanese, LibraryJournal.com, December 2, 2008.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6619104.html



The Belgium-based European
Booksellers Federation (EBF) has released a statement slamming
the recent Google Book Search settlement with the Association of American
Publishers (AAP) and the Authors Guild, telling members the deal gives too
much
power to Google, and runs afoul of European copyright law.

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Apple May be Chilling iTunes Competition: Critics.

By David Lawsky, Reuters, December 3, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/5oebwy



Apple felt compelled to act last month, out of concern its
copyright was violated.

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Blog: New Firefox Extension Turns Amazon.com into Illegal Free for
All.

Posted by Josh Lowensohn, CNet News, December 3, 2008.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10112541-2.html



A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon lets users
download movies, games, TV shows, and MP3s free of charge by cross
referencing
Amazon's product pages with torrent files from the Pirate Bay.

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New Short Film Asks, Why Copyright?

By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, December 4, 2008.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/law.ars/2008/12/04/new-short-film-asks-why-co
pyright

http://tinyurl.com/58hngz



50 years ago, did anyone but big rightsholders and lawmakers
care about copyright? It certainly wasn't the tremendous public issue it has
become today, and a new short film from
Canadian law professor Michael Geist takes a look at why copyright matters to
people and what they think copyright should cover.

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How the Wal-mart Grinch Stole Black Friday Link Love.

By Sage Lewis, SearchEngineWatch.com, December 4, 2008.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3631983



The blog post,
"Walmart Sends DMCA Notice to
SearchAllDeals, TechCrunch" on Search Engine Watch's Blog was
extremely interesting on several levels.

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Swedish Govt Mulls New Anit-File Sharing Law.

The Associated Press, December 4, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/5qnwmb



The Swedish government says it is drafting a law that will
allow record and film companies to pursue Internet users sharing music and
movies illegally.

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Tyler Perry Takes the Stand in Copyright Lawsuit.

The Associated Press, December 4, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/5tonpd



Actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry testified in a copyright
infringement lawsuit Wednesday that he did not steal material from a woman's
play for his blockbuster movie "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."

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UK:
Pantomime Renames Dwarfs to avoid Breaching Disney Copyright.

By Matthew Moore, Telegraph.co.uk, December 4, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/6pqepn



Doc, Dopey, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy and Bashful have been
ditched from the show at The Albert Halls theatre in Bolton,
Greater Manchester.



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