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["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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NYT, Gatehouse Release Settlement Details.
>From The Boston Globe Business Team, The Boston Globe, January 27, 2009.
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/01/nyt_gatehouse_r.html

"GateHouse Media Inc. will set up technical barriers preventing Boston.com,
the Boston Globe's website, from automated "scraping" of GateHouse content,
and Boston.com has agreed to honor those barriers under a settlement disclosed
this morning in a widely watched lawsuit filed by GateHouse against The New
York Times Co."
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Isle of Man Plans Unlimited Music Downloads.
By Eric Pfanner, New York Times, January 25, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/b2xvsg

"Two generations ago, the Isle of Man gave the world the Bee Gees. Now it says
it wants to help the wounded music industry stay alive."
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UK: Music Pirates Will Not Be Disconnected from the Internet.
By Patrick Foster, The Times Online, January 26, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/cczb9q

"Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who
repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times
has learnt."
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Why the U.S. Lost Its WTO IP Complaint Against China.
By Michael Geist, MP3newswire.net, January 28, 2009.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/9002/wto.html

"The World Trade Organization yesterday released its much-anticipated decision
involving a U.S. complaint against China over its protection and enforcement
of intellectual property rights. The U.S. quickly proclaimed victory, with
newspaper headlines trumpeting the WTO panel's requirement that China reform
elements of its intellectual property laws."
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PPL and Connarty Host Copyright Meeting.
By Robert Ashton, Music Week, January 28, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/dcnoyr

"Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group co-chair and copyright term campaigner
Michael Connarty is hosting a meeting in the House of Commons on Monday to
give an update on the progress of legislation in Brussels."
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Sources: AT&T, Comcast May Help RIAA Foil Piracy.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, January 28, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10151389-93.html

"AT&T and Comcast, two of the nation's largest Internet service providers, are
expected to be among a group of ISPs that will cooperate with the music
industry in battling illegal file sharing, three sources close to the
companies told CNET News."
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BitTorrent Researcher: Copyright Will Be Obsolete by 2010.
By Janko Roettgers, NewTeeVee.com, January 31, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/apesj4

"Pouwelse, who's been tracking the P2P phenomenon over the last decade, has
just published along with some of his colleagues an article highlighting some
of the key points of his research. It's a good 21-page read, but here's the
short version: That whole copyright thing ain't gonna work."
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YouTube Music Silenced as Google and Warner Fight over Copyright.
By Chloe Lake, Couriermail.com.au, January 31, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/dhynsz

"YouTube users are outraged over a sudden copyright crackdown on the
video-sharing website."
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EFF Explains Why You Should Be Allowed To Sell Promo CDs.
By Mike Masnick, Tech Dirt, January 29, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090129/0302373564.shtml

"Universal's claim was that the stamp meant that it continued to own the CD,
even though it never asked for such CDs back. If allowed, this would
effectively let any company create their own copyright laws by simply stamping
the content with the rules. So, forget the current, already ridiculous, term
for copyright. New authors or musicians could just stamp every product with
"Property of the content creator" and you would never actually own the
product."
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Palm Beware: Apples Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes.
By John Mahoney, Gizmodo, January 29, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/cqb4zt

"If Palm ends up in court over the Pre's multitouch, it'll join a prestigious
line of firms that have tussled with Apple, which loves a good legal battle
almost as much as sexy aluminum."
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Canada: Copyright Implications for Document Delivery.
By Karen Herland, Concordia Journal, January 29, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ccsbs9

"Professors become emotional when they learn that showing a film in class or
posting a PDF on Moodle might violate copyright. Associate Librarian Olivier
Charbonneau is reminded of Elisabeth K|bler-Ross's five stages of grief."
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Ruling in WoW Bot Case at Odds with Intention of Copyright Law.
By Mike Masnick, Tech Dirt, February 2, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090201/1819123591.shtml

"When a judge ruled last summer that a World of Warcraft bot violated
Blizzard's copyright, the ruling was already quite problematic in that it
vastly expanded the scope of copyright law in terms of the power of an EULA to
limit the activities of legitimate purchasers by use of copyright law."
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Pirates watch out, ISPs agreeing to ban copyright violators.
By Samantha Rose Hunt, TG Daily, February 2, 2009.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41283/118/

"The music industry's hard work to prevent pirating seems to be moving
forward. An Irish internet service provider has agreed to the so-called
"three-strikes" policy which would ultimately ban users who repeatedly violate
copyright laws."
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Is Technology on the Verge of Killing Copyright Dead?
By Mike Masnick, Tech Dirt, February 2, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090202/0121203596.shtml

"While I have significant problems with copyright law, and believe that it's
been stretched and twisted to a breaking point, even I find it surprising to
see a researchers' prediction that technology will basically make copyright
completely obsolete by some time next year."
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Comcast Already Screws Up Playing Copyright Cop.
By Karl Bode, BroadbandDSLreports.com, February 2, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/cdz8b6

"Last week it was made clear that both AT&T and Comcast are participating in
the RIAA's secret plan to make carriers content cops, willing to disconnect
repeat offenders (though AT&T tells me they're not sold on automating that
last part)."
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Successfully Defending Copyright Infringement Suits.
By David J. Meiselman and Jeffrey I. Carton
Meiselman, Denlea, Packman, Carton & Eberz P.C.
http://tinyurl.com/c3tzt9

"The successful defense of a copyright infringement suit is part art, and part
science. With the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and Internet sites
capable of distributing original, artistic content, the likelihood that
creative, for-profit entertainment endeavors will be challenged as allegedly
owing their origins to others is occurring with alarming frequency."
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Rather Than Mocking Confusion Over Copyright Law, IP Lawyers Should Look At
Fixing It.
By Mike Masnick, Tech Dirt, February 2, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090201/1839253592.shtml

"Over the past few years, around Superbowl time, there have been various
articles about the NFL threatening groups (often churches) for potentially
violating copyright law by having a "public performance" of the Superbowl on a
TV greater than 55" inches."

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