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Collapse in Illegal Sharing and Boom in Streaming Brings Music to
Executives' Ears.
By Alexandra Topping, The Guardian, July 12, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/m4f44w

"They are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their
bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their
friends has been blamed for bringing an industry to its knees. But new
research shows that the number of teenagers' illegally sharing music has
fallen dramatically in the past year."
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AP, AHN Media Settle Intellectual Property Lawsuit.
By Elinor Mills, CNET News, July 13, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10285827-93.html

"AHN Media has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the Associated
Press to settle a lawsuit in which the AP accused AHN of rewriting AP
stories and putting AHN's name on them, the companies announced on
Monday. In the settlement, AHN admitted to improperly using AP content
in many instances, according to a joint news release published on the AP
Web site."
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AP Has No Right to Obama 'Hope' Image, Photographer Tells Judge.
By Erik Larson, Bloomberg, July 13, 2009.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aVR_et1I9K.Q

"The Associated Press, which sued artist Shepard Fairey for using an AP
photograph as inspiration for a Barack Obama campaign poster, wrongfully
copyrighted the image it seeks to protect, the photographer told a
judge."
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Stephen Fry: Time for Politicians to Represent People's Interest on
Copyright, Not Corporations.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, July 14, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090713/1936485534.shtml

"Stephen Fry is a very well known British actor, comedian and writer.
He's also known as a real tech geek sorta guy -- who doesn't mind
getting his hands dirty with new technologies to learn about them. He
apparently gave a speech (made up on short notice) about copyright and
the future of music, where he complained that politicians, such as those
who created the Digital Britain report were clearly reflecting the views
of various industries and not of the people."
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The Music Industry Wants Cut of Pirate Bay Sale.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, July 16, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10288495-93.html

"The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the
Pirate Bay, according to a high-level music industry source and a
spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI), the trade group representing the music industry worldwide."
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An Orwellian Moment.
By Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2009.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/17/an-orwellian-moment-for-amazons-k
indle/

"On Thursday, some Amazon.com customers discovered that e-books they had
bought by George Orwell had disappeared from their Kindle e-readers. The
issue, says Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener, is that the Orwell books had
been added to the company's catalog using a self-service platform by a
third party that did not actually have rights to sell the books. "When
we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal
copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded
customers," he said."
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Canada: Copyright Forums to Begin in Vancouver on Monday.
CBC News, July 17, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/mvr5um

"The federal government will begin consulting Canadians on the issue of
copyright reform next week, starting Monday in Vancouver."
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New Pirate Bay to be Based on Give-and-Take Models.
By Louise Nordstrom, The Associated Press, July 19, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/nns9eo

"One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is
going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in
some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said
Saturday."
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Opinion: A Writer's Tale.
By L. Gordon Crovitz, The Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124804423491263485.html

"Novelist Mark Helprin couldn't have made up what happened after an
op-ed article he wrote for the New York Times in 2007 urging stronger
protection for copyright. He thought this was a topic of interest only
to publishing houses, authors and copyright lawyers. Instead, within a
week there were 750,000 comments online criticizing him for wanting to
extend authors' rights beyond the current 70 years, many of them
opposing any copyright protection at all."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College amata@xxxxxxxx
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