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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Start-Up Plans to Make Journalism Pirates Pay Up.
By Saul Hansell, The New York Times, July 26, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/q22q76

"Online piracy isn't just a problem for music companies; it hurts
newspapers and magazines as well. News organizations are now trying to
do something about the many Web sites that simply copy articles and
paste them into their own pages."
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Hollywood Movie Houses Sue Pirate Bay Operators.
By Mario Perez, USA Today, July 29, 2009.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-07-28-pirate-bay_N.htm

"A dozen Hollywood production companies have filed a new lawsuit against
file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. Columbia Pictures, Disney
Enterprises, Universal Studios and 10 others are demanding the site's
operators be fined and prevented from distributing TV-series including
"Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" and films such as "Batman."
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Court: It's Fair Use to Use Exec Photos in a Griper's Wanted Poster.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, July 29, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090728/0329415681.shtml

"We've had some interesting discussions around here concerning "fair
use" lately -- especially in talking about the Shepard Fairey case. Some
have suggested that because Fairey didn't do "enough" to change the look
of the photo, it's not fair use. But, of course, that's now how fair use
works. As an example of this, here's a recent lawsuit involving an angry
blogger who set up some "gripes" sites against a certain company. He
also created "WANTED" posters/postcards, using photos of execs that he
pulled off the corporate internet page."
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Is Apple Suggesting That the DMCA Prevents Terrorism?
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, July 30, 2009.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090729/1929035702.shtml

"The EFF is trying to get a DMCA exemption from the Library of Congress
for people who jailbreak their iPhones (if history is any indication,
this won't happen -- the Library of Congress never seems to care about
consumer rights). However, Apple's response to the Library of Congress,
suggesting that open or jailbroken iPhones could be used by terrorists
to bring down cell towers is both preposterous and totally unrelated to
the issue at hand."
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RIAA Says Consumers Shouldn't Expect DRM Servers to Run Forever.
By Nilay Patel, Engadget, July 30, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/mourxe

"Man, these Copyright Office triennial DMCA hearings seem to be some
kind of competition for media-industry lawyers to present ridiculous
arguments -- just a couple months after the MPAA tried to convince us
that videotaping DVDs was an acceptable alternative to ripping, the
RIAA's claiming that consumers shouldn't expect their DRM servers to
stay online and allow them to play their music to play forever."
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Dutch Court Tells Pirate Bay to Scram, or Else.
By Josh Lowensohn, CNET News, July 30, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10300164-248.html

"A Dutch court has ruled in favor of antipiracy foundation BREIN, giving
three of The Pirate Bay's co-founders 10 days to block traffic to and
from the Netherlands, effectively revoking access to its residents."
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RIAA Seeks Up to $150,000 a Song in File Sharing Trial.
By David Kravets, Wired, July 30, 2009.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/riaa-jugular/

"The Recording Industry Association of America is going for the jugular
in an ongoing file sharing trial in Massachusetts, urging a federal
judge to clarify jury instructions so panelists would award up to
$150,000 in damages for each of 30 songs at issue."

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Tenenbaum Hit with $675,000 Fine for Music Piracy.
By Jaikumar Vijayan, Computer World, July 31, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/kwauru

"In another big victory for the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) a federal jury has fined Boston University student Joel
Tenenbaum $675,000 for illegally downloading and distributing 30
copyrighted songs."

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Record Companies, RIAA Prevail in Copyright Trial.
By Sheri Qualters, The Blog of Legal Times, July 31, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/nwo6pv

"A jury in a high-profile federal copyright infringement trial here
ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay $675,000 to several
record companies for illegally downloading and distributing 30 of their
songs."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College

amata@xxxxxxxx
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