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Viacom May Have E-Mails Showing YouTube Knowingly Violated Copyrights.
By David Kaplan, paidContent.org, October 6, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yc6cfgz

"Viacom may be in the possession of e-mails proving that YouTube
employees knowingly uploaded unauthorized videos, which could help the
entertainment company in its $1 billion copyright infringement suit
against the video site."
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Australia: iiNet Copyright Trial Begins.
By Lars Brandle, Billboard.biz, October 6, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/y87rjb7

"Investigators tracked nearly 100,000 instances of iiNet customers
sharing files illegally during a 59-week period, prosecutors told the
Federal Court in Sydney today as the Internet Service Provider's
copyright trial finally got underway."
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UK: Madonna copyright victory - what is the law?
By Chris Cheesman, Amateur Photographer, October 6, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yessznx

"In 2003 an interior designer was alleged to have copied at least 27
images from Madonna's private wedding album, supplying them to a third
party who then offered them to the Mail on Sunday which published them
last year. But what does UK law state on photographic copyright?"
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Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again By Greg Sandoval, CNET
News, October 5, 2009.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10367767-93.html

"The Pirate Bay was inaccessible most of the day Monday after a group
representing copyright owners forced the BitTorrent search engine's
bandwidth provider to cut off service, according to a published report."
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Apple and Eminem's Music Publisher Settle Copyright Suit By Andrew
Longstreth, AM Law Litigation Daily, October 5, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/y9z85jk

"The news coming out of Detroit these days--like this package from Time
magazine--is mostly about the city's economic decay. But for a week in
September, a Motown federal district courthouse was home to an important
music industry copyright bench trial that had the potential to change
the way online music distributors obtain licenses."
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Press Release: The Drinnon Law Firm Announces Copyright, Trademark
Lawsuit Over Adidas' 'We Not Me' Advertising Campaign.
PR Newswire, October 5, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yec985v

"The Drinnon Law Firm is announcing a federal trademark and copyright
lawsuit against Adidas AG (OTC Bulletin Board: ADDYY) and the NBA Store,
charging that the company's "We Not Me" national multimedia advertising
campaign violates an active and long-held trademark and copyright."
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Pirate Bay Back Online and Back on Google.
By John Oates, The Register, October 5, 2009.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/05/google_piratebay/

"Pirate Bay is back on Google, and back online, following a double
whammy of downtime and a wrongly served DMCA notice."
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Future of Music: Sen. Al Franken weighs in on net neutrality.
By Greg Kot, The Chicago Tribune, October 5, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/y9ebvlp

"Big day Monday for the Future of Music Coalition summit, with Sen. Al
Franken (D-Minn.) and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius
Genachowski both scheduled as featured speakers. The primary topic: Net
neutrality, the principle that the Internet should not discriminate
against any data carried over it."
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Will Books be Napsterized?
By Randall Stross, The New York Times, October 3, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/business/04digi.html?_r=1

"YOU can buy "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at
Amazon.com. Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from
another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other
file-storage sites."
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Lawsuit: Does Copyright Screening Constitute Copyright Infringement?
Avvo, October 2, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ydrpycy

"A lawsuit filed in California regarding the regulation of
user-generated content on websites will decide whether copyright laws
protect companies who use trademarked content to screen for possible
cases of infringement."
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Blog: Advantage Google.
By Lewis Hyde, Beattie's Book Blog, October 1, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ycxzlaz

"Three hundred years ago, Daniel Defoe offered a memorable image for the
relationship between authors and their work: "A Book is the Author's
Property, 'tis the Child of his Inventions, the Brat of his Brain." The
line comes from an essay Defoe wrote in support of the first-ever
copyright act, the 1710 Statute of Anne. That law, one of the great
inventions of human civilization, managed to do two good things at once:
it gave writers ownership of their work, thus freeing them from
patronage, and it limited the term of ownership to 28 years, thus giving
the rest of us a public domain, a world of print we all may enter
because no one owns it."
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Layton Man Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor in Textbook Case.
By Pamels Manson, The Salt Lake Tribune, October 2, 2009.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_13465005

"A Layton man accused of bilking the Davis School District of millions
of dollars intended for low-income school children has pleaded guilty to
a copyright violation and agreed to turn over cash and property to the
government."
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Egalitarian or Elitist?
By Moses Nakamura, Lucy Sun, and Jia Ahmad, The Columbia Spectator,
October 1, 2009.
http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/article/2009/10/01/egalitarian-or-eliti
st

"Google Books is changing how the world reads. The project's start
coincided with the emergence of the search engine itself."
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A Remix Manifesto for Our New Copyright Czar.
Jonathan Melber, The Huffington Post, September 30, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/y8cqt4g

"President Obama just appointed Victoria A. Espinel to be the first U.S.
copyright czar. The position sounds like one more unnecessary addition
to Washington bureaucracy (and it probably will be), but Espinel
actually has a real opportunity to help fix our profoundly broken
copyright laws, which--rather than fostering creativity, as they were
originally intended--now inhibit it at every turn."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College Rm. 2407, Largo, 3501
University Boulevard East Adelphi, MD  20783
(240) 684-2967 office
(240) 684-2961 fax
amata@xxxxxxxx





Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
Rm. 2407, Largo, 3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD  20783
(240) 684-2967 office
(240) 684-2961 fax
amata@xxxxxxxx