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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Judge: Psystar Can Claim Apple 'Copyright Misuse.' By Dawn Kawamoto,
CNET News, February 9,
2009.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10159450-37.html

"A federal judge is letting Mac clone maker Psystar amend its legal
defense against Apple."
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RIAA Hires New VP of Litigation, Legal Affairs. By Marcia Coyle,
National Law Journal, February 5, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/aum2b9

"The Recording Industry Association of America has hired Jennifer
Pariser as the organization's senior vice president of litigation and
legal affairs.
Pariser comes to the RIAA with more than two decades of legal experience
and expertise in intellectual property law."
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Could You Go to Jail for Jailbreaking Your iPhone? By Saul Hansell, New
York Times, February 16, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ao7s34

"There is something deeply exasperating about the debate, spotlighted
Thursday, about whether unlocking an iPhone violates Apple's copyright
on the cellphone's software. There's a real issue at stake, but it isn't
fundamentally about copyrights."
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The Pirate Bay Trial to Begin in Sweden. By Peter Musil, CNET News,
February 15, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10164777-93.html

"File-swappers are expected to be keeping their eyes on a court in
Sweden this week as a landmark copyright-infringement trial gets under
way."
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Two Scottish Companies File Patent Lawsuits against Apple. By Andrew
Morse, CNNMoney.com, February 13, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/d7h3em

"A pair of small Scottish companies have filed a lawsuit against Apple
Inc. (AAPL), claiming two of the computer maker's best- selling products
include technology that infringes on their patents."
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Artists Flout Copyright Law to Attack Damien Hirst. Telegraph.co.uk,
February 13, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/b2pjtm

"Damien Hirst's work has been being 'ripped off' by a group of artists
who want to make a point about the multimillionaire's stringent use of
copyright law."
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Amazon.com's Kindle 2 Faces Possible Copyright Battle. By Nicholas
Kolakowski, eWeek.com, February 13, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/cw92f6

"Amazon.com's Kindle 2 mobile electronic reader had a buzz-heavy Feb. 13
launch with Jeff Bezos and Stephen King. But now The Authors Guild says
the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature could violate authors' audio book
copyrights."
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The Evidence is Against a Copyright Extension on Music, but the EU Will
Force-feed it to Us Anyway. By Jim Killock, Telegraph.co.uk, February
13, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/d6f8w2

"On Thursday, the EU took another step towards doubling copyright term
in sound recordings from 50 to 95 years, much to the dismay of consumer
groups and academics across Europe. It's not yet a final decision, just
one more turn of the EU legislative sausage machine."
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Berlin: Germany Rejects Three-Strikes Piracy Plan. By Wolfgang Spahr,
Billboard.biz, February 10, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/bd9l4z

"The German federal government has decided against embracing the
Olivennes Agreement - the French model for combating illegal
file-sharing activities. The French three-strikes scheme would cut off
the ISP connections of repeat offenders who violated copyright by
illegally downloading content."
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Record Labels Make ISPs 'Copyright Cops' for Piracy (Update 1). By
Kristen Schweizer and Adam Satariano, Bloomberg.com, February 13, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/cxp3pb

"The world's biggest record companies sued college students, a
12-year-old girl and a dead woman and still failed to stamp out music
piracy. Now they're turning to Internet service providers."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
amata@xxxxxxxx