In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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New York Times Sued over Boston.com's Linking Practice.
Posted by Elinor Mills, CNET News, December 23, 2008.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10128600-93.html

"A publisher of mostly small, local newspapers has sued the New York
Times Co. over its aggregation of news headlines on Boston.com,
challenging the practice many sites use of linking to other sources."
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Apple Sued over Apple TV.
Posted by Steven Musil, CNET News, December 18, 2008.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10126855-37.html

"A maker of wireless set-top boxes has filed a patent infringement
lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company
hired away three employees with knowledge of technology that would be
included in Apple TV."
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Online Piracy Menaces Pro Sports.
By Tim Arango, New York Times, December 28, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/9txe7l

"'We never felt that the jewel in our crown, the live games, would be
vulnerable,' said Ayala Deutsch, senior vice president and chief
intellectual property counsel at the National Basketball Association."
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RIAA Loses Mistrial Appeal.
Posed by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News, December 29, 2008.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10129640-93.html

"A federal judge has denied the Recording Industry Association of
America's request for an appeal of an earlier decision to grant a
retrial in its copyright infringement case against Jammie Thomas."
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India to Sign Bilateral Pact with UK to Protect Copyrights.
Press Trust of India, January 4, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/8lmjxa

"To ensure that Indian authors get royalty for their literary work
reproduced in the United Kingdom, the Indian Reprographic Rights
Organisation (IRRO) will sign a bilateral agreement with its British
counterpart -- Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA).
The agreement is expected to be signed in April this year during the
London book fair, IRRO chairman Ashok K Ghosh said."
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Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions.
By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, December 30, 2008.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/30/copyright

"Professors, librarians and others have proposed that the U.S. Copyright
Office significantly expand its list of when, and by whom, DVDs and
other audiovisual materials should be exempted from technological
measures that control access to copyrighted works."
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Kenya: Copyright Board to be Independent Organisation.
By Okuttah Mark, Business Daily Africa., December 29, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/92dy7g

"The Kenya Copyright Board is on the final stages of being delinked from
the Attorney General to be an independent intellectual property rights
watchdog."
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ISP Says RIAA Must Pay for Piracy Protection.
Posted on ZeroPaid.com, December 30, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/7wtxa2

"Last week the RIAA made headlines by announcing that it was going to
quit suing individual file-sharers and instead begin targeting their
Internet connections with assistance from ISPs. Now one ISP is saying
that this assistance isn't free and the entertainment industry better
expect to pay for enforcement of copyright protection on its network."
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Old Electronics Kit Manuals Forced Offline Thanks to Copyright.
Mike Masnick, Techdirt, December 24, 2008.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081215/0106043118.shtml

"Even though the company stopped making and selling kits back in 1992,
it apparently just sold the copyrights on its old manuals to another
company, which is going around forcing any old manuals offline and
demanding people buy them instead"
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New Psystar Filing Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing.
By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica, December 23, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/9lv6dg

"Despite having its countersuit against Apple thrown out, Psystar
continues to deny it is violating any law and that Apple has no legal
standing to sue Psystar for selling unlicensed copies of Mac OS X."
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Facebook Puts Coal in Project Playlist's Stocking.
By Chloe Albanesius, PCMag, December 24, 2008.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2337549,00.asp

"The site allows its users to compile playlists and, until recently,
embed them on their profiles on social networking sites. Copyright
concerns, however, have prompted these sites to pull their support."

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