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Blog: Educational Fair Use: A Provocation.
By Peter Jazi, (c)ollectanaea, March 30, 2009.
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

"Some years ago, I was in a meeting with a high IP official of a certain
political administration (neither of which will be named here),
discussing exceptions to copyright law and trying to make the point that
these were critical to the mission of secondary and higher education,
which were (even then) cash-strapped."
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YouTube Removing Warner Music Videos again, Not Just Muting.
By Samantha Rose Hunt, TG Daily, March 24, 2009.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41828/118/

"Thousands of user-created videos, rather just their audio tracks, are
once again being pulled from YouTube. Due to the ongoing copyright
dispute between Warner Music Group and YouTube, tens of thousands of
amateur videos have been removed from the site. Users believe their
videos fall under the category of "Fair Use", but failed negotiations
between YouTube and Warner Music have resulted in all content being
affected."
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Musician Called A Copyright Violator On MySpace For Uploading Her Own
Music.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, March 25, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090324/2059174244.shtml

"The various record labels have pushed sites like MySpace to institute
aggressive filters to try to stomp out the ability of people to upload
others' music -- but as with any such filters, they seem to make
mistakes that aren't easily fixed."
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Early Nazi-Era Newspapers May Be Reprinted, Munich Court Says.
By Karin Matussek, Bloomberg.com, March 25, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/dbjcrs

"Newspapers from the Third Reich's early years, including the official
Nazi publication Voelkischer Beobachter, can be reprinted in Germany, a
Munich court ruled."
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Comcast, Cox Cooperating with RIAA in Antipiracy Campaign.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, March 25, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10204047-93.html

"The Internet service providers that have agreed to work with the
recording industry to battle illegal file sharing are starting to come
forward."
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Pirate Bay to Launch Anonymous VPN Service.
By Steve Ragan, The Tech Herald, March 25, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/c2gor5

"Upping the ante once again when it comes to taking on corporate giants
dead set against Torrent use of any kind, The Pirate Bay is launching a
new virtua private network (VPN) service aimed at protecting its
established user base."
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Three Strikes and You're Offline: Music Industry, ISPs May Cut Internet
Access for File-Sharers.
By Liza Porteus Viana, March 26, 2009.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510283,00.html

"Under pressure from the big record labels, several countries around the
world are cracking down hard on illegal file-sharers with a "three
strikes, you're out" policy - and the United States may be next."
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Debating Copyright Extension in the UK.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, March 26, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090324/0042034224.shtml

"Unfortunately, the debate is a bit haphazard and goes all over the
place at times. Kretschmer, unfortunately, doesn't do a great job
picking the key points for why copyright extension is bad and sticking
to them (i.e., the fact that copyright is a deal struck between the
public and the creator, and changing that deal at a later date steals
from the public)."
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AT&T Learns From Mom in Fighting File Sharing.
By Saul Hansell, New York Times, March 26, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/dauzey

"'We are not under any circumstances going to suspend or terminate any
customer's service as a result of a third-party allegation unless they
have a court order,' Mr. Cicconi said. 'The copyright owner has legal
rights, and we are not going to be the agent to enforce their rights.'"
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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