In The News

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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YouTube Copyright System Gone Mad, EFF Prepares to Sue.
By Marshall Kirkpatrick, Read Write Web, February 3, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/c7ncrj

"YouTube and Warner Brothers have broken a little girl's heart by
deleting a video of her singing the copyrighted song "Winter
Wonderland," and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't going to take
it anymore."
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Finland: Copyright Dispute Continues over Mobile Phone Music Files.
YLE.fi, February 3, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/cdbmyp

"Copyright agencies have again suffered a setback in efforts to secure
greater royalties from music files copied to mobile phones."
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UK Copyright Holder Getting Creative in Quest for Royalties.
Zero Paid, February 4, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ajr55z

"The UK Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS), a copyright holder
group that collects royalty payments for songwriters and composers, is
going after workplaces where anybody other than the one listening to a
radio can hear it."
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AP Alleges Copyright Infringement of Obama Image.
AP, LocalNews8.com, February 4, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/crj4ly

"On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last
year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as
if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and
underlined with the caption HOPE."
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Digital Pirates Winning Battle with Studios.
By Brian Stelter and Brad Stone, New York Times, February 4, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/b4rpd4

"On the day last July when "The Dark Knight" arrived in theaters, Warner
Brothers was ready with an ambitious antipiracy campaign that involved
months of planning and steps to monitor each physical copy of the film."
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Copyright Alliance and AAP Welcome Re-introduction of Anti-open Access
Bill.
By Peter Suber, Public Knowledge, February 6, 2009.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1981

"Two publisher groups which supported the Conyers bill the last time
around are supporting it again. No surprises here."
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AP Goes After Obama Artist for Copyright Violation.
By Gene Quinn, IP Watchdog, February 6, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/c2qt69

"A Los-Angeles based street artist named Shepard Fairey created what
many would say was one of the most enduring images of the 2008
Presidential Campaign, a poster of Barack Obama with a stern and
confident look gazing slightly upward and to his left.  The trouble with
this poster is that is based on a copyrighted photo taken by the
Associated Press, and the Associated Press wants to be paid for the use
of the photograph."
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Coldplay Won't Be Served With Copyright Lawsuit at The Grammys.
AHN, February 6, 2009.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013976019

"Coldplay can now attend the Grammys sans worries. The band will not be
served with a copyright lawsuit by guitarist Joe Satriani at the
prestigious show, where they are nominated for 7 awards at the major
music event."
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Australia: Truckie's Amazing copyright fight.
By Kim Arlington, Daily Telegraph, February 7, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/bodzku

"Truck driver and musician Mark O'Keefe has penned more than 1000 songs.
He acknowledges that none have been hits - except, he claims, the one he
co-wrote with singer Alex Lloyd on a beer coaster at a Rozelle pub."
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Blog: Idiot Copyright Holders.
By Ryan J. Davis, Huffington Post, February 5, 3009.
http://tinyurl.com/as6m6c

"In 1947 Tennessee Williams wrote a masterpiece of a play, Streetcar
Named Desire, which has been a major part of the American dramatic
cannon for over sixty years. It's now 2009 and Mark Sam Rosenthal has
put together a satirical look at the government's response to Hurricane
Katrina through the eyes of Blanche DuBois, Streetcar's leading lady.
The play, Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, is a
one person drag performance that didn't really work for me - but
certainly is not in any way infringement on Tennessee Williams'
intellectual property."

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