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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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German Government to Tighten Copyright Law.
By Wolfgang Spahr, Billboardz, October 27, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yl6ccsk

"Germany's new coalition government has pledged to tighten up copyright
law, but has shied away from introducing any "three strikes"-style
legislation to deter illegal downloading."
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China Must Do More to Battle Copyright Theft: US Agency France Press,
October 27, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yg893yu

"US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Tuesday that China must adopt
stricter copyright and trademark rules, while boosting penalties for
intellectual property theft. Locke, speaking at an intellectual property
forum in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, also said the
manufacturing powerhouse should focus on creating more "homegrown
entrepreneurs."
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UK: David Lammy Calls for a Pan-European Approach to Copyright
Protection.
By Mark Sweney, The Gaurdian, October 27, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yjc5j66

"David Lammy, the intellectual property minister, has today warned that
the UK cannot solve the problem of copyright piracy without the support
of other European governments."
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New Zealand: Printer Exposed for Copyright Theft.
Beattie's Book Blog, October 26, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yl7brje

"New Zealand's print copyright agency, CLL has uncovered illegal copying
activity by a printer based in Auckland's Takapuna and warns others that
copying published works without permission is breaking the law."
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MPAA and Chinese Copyright Group Collaborate to Fight Illegal
Camcording.
By Screen Staff, Screen Daily, October 26, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ygxj4ws

"Motion Picture Association (MPA) and China Film Copyright Association
(CFCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to encourage
closer collaboration between the two organisations, particularly on
illegal camcording."
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Universities in Hot Water over Students' Peer-to-Peer Sharing.
By Zach Whittaker, ZDNet's iGeneration Blog, October 25, 2009.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=3168

"The battle against online piracy is heating up: a new artist led
initiative is taking on the diplomatic and negotiation approach whereas
governments and legislators are hitting down punitive policies on their
citizens."
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Movie Remakes and the Copyright Question.
By Anupam Pandey, Live Mint.com & Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ylzv7qs

"The English film industry (with its biggest hub in the US, popularly
known as Hollywood) is now recognizing the Indian film industry as a
creative partner. The era of synchronization of the two biggest film
industries in the world has arrived and Hollywood now clearly recognizes
the value of the Indian market. This means that Hollywood producers are
keen for Indian remakes of their movies and are correspondingly becoming
proactive in enforcing copyrights of their original films under Indian
law."
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Book Review: 'Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars' by William Patry
Reviewed by Jonathan Handel, New York Times, October 23, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ykqzsqy

"Illegal file sharing is killing the entertainment industry -- at least,
that's the received wisdom. Others disagree, favor legalization or even
argue that the activity is legal already. Some just want free stuff, or,
citing economist Joseph Schumpeter, say that "creative destruction"
accompanies innovation. Many people simply consider the freebies payback
for overpriced CDs and bad movies."
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British Copyright Org Threatens Singing Store Employee.
By Jason Mick, Daily Tech, October 23, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yzxbogz

"Yet another example of irresponsible copyright enforcement rears its
ugly head"'
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No Internet for French Pirates after Constitutional Ruling.
By Peter Sayer, PC World, October 23, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yfz8ekc

"France's Constitutional Council has validated the so-called "three
strikes" law, clearing the way for an accelerated judicial process that
will cut off the access of Internet users accused three times of
downloading copyright content without authorization."
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Kalashnikov Copyright Defended.
Associated Press, October 23, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ygjqtav

"Russia has been a major market for counterfeit music, movies and
computer programmes from around the world, but at least one Russian
product has been pirated worldwide: the Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Russia will step up action to defend the copyright of the Kalashnikov,
which is made without licence by dozens of manufacturers around the
world, said Anatoly Isaikin, the chief of the nation's state
arms-trading monopoly."
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Man Sentenced in Software Case.
By Del Quentin Wilber, The Washington Post, October 23, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ylak72r

"A Falls Church man was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in
federal prison for selling more than $1 million in pirated software on
eBay."
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U.K. Music Company's Copyright Suit Ends on a Sour Note in U.S. Court.
By Henry Gottlieb, Law.com, October 22, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yj37nx3

"A federal judge has squelched a suit accusing a New Jersey company of
invading the exclusive territory of Europe's largest distributor of
sheet music."
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Critics of Google Online-books Deal Seek Delay.
Reuters, October 22, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yfzzpay

"Critics of Google's deal with an authors' group to put millions of
books online have asked for a delay in a hearing set to consider the
settlement in a court filing on Thursday."
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UK: Photographer Wins Landmark 'Online' Copyright Ruling.
By Chris Cheesman, Amateur Photographer, October 22, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/yjek5zn

"The High Court has ruled in favour of a celebrity photographer who sued
Mirror Group Newspapers for infringing his copyright in archived images
that were subsequently published in digital form for newspaper back
issues."
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UK: PPL 'Disappointed' At Copyright Tribunal Verdict.
By Andre Paine, Billboardz, October 22, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ykmajsk

"U.K. music licensing organization PPL has lost its Copyright Tribunal
case on tariffs for the hospitality sector, in a ruling that will also
impact on its tariffs on offices and factories. It has announced that it
will appeal the decision at the High Court."
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ImageRights Launches to Help Protect Photographers and Stock-Photo
Agencies from Copyright Infringement.
By Kevin Wolf, Reuters, October 22, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ykzfnay

"ImageRights International, an Internet-based services company, today
announced the availability of its first service-ImageRights-a low-cost,
easy to use solution designed to help protect the copyrights of
photographers and stock-photo agencies. Targeted to the estimated three
million worldwide commercial photographers, ImageRights is applying
visual search and image recognition technology to track the use of
photographs and illustrations across the Internet, enabling rights
holders to discover and ultimately recover fees for the unlicensed use
of their works."
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DutchCourt Rules Against the Pirate Bay Again.
By Toby Sterling, Business Week, October 22, 2009.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9BG8CK82.htm

"A Dutch civil court Thursday ruled for a second time against three
Swedish men said to control The Pirate Bay, ordering them to remove
links to copyrighted material from the Web site and block all traffic
between it and the Netherlands within three months."
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Canada Deserves Spot on U.S. Naughty List Due to lax Copyright Laws.
The Canadian Press, October 21, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/ygxbr6r

"The new U.S. ambassador won't apologize for his country's decision to
scold Canada for its lax copyright laws by placing it on a priority
watch list."
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Yes on One Ad Rankles NPR.
By Josie Huang, The Maine Public Broadcasting Netowrk, October 21, 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/yjk7xtc

"The campaign to overturn Maine's same-sex marriage law is taking on an
unlikely new adversary: National Public Radio. NPR wants the Yes on
One/Stand for Marriage Maine campaign to stop airing television spots
featuring audio from an NPR story because the organization does not want
to be associated with a political issue. But the campaign says it is
ignoring the cease-and-desist order from NPR and will keep airing the
ads. "This is a ridiculous and frivolous complaint," says Scott Fish,
spokesman for the campaign to repeal the gay marriage law, reading from
a prepared statement. "Stand For Marriage Maine has the absolute right
to use news clips aired on NPR in our advertisement. This is a protected
exercise of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and is
expressly contemplated as 'fair use' in our nation's copyright laws."
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HP Bets on Paper Books and Magazines in Digital Age.
By Steven E.F. Brown, Business Journal, October 21, 2009.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/10/19/daily53.html

"Hewlett-Packard Co. is placing a big bet on paper magazines and paper
books, even as electronic books and readers become more popular, with
Barnes & Noble introducing its new Nook reader Tuesday. HP is setting up
projects to allow people to print their own magazines and to print old
books that are out of copyright."
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Chinese Group Says Google Violating Copyrights.
By Elaine Kurtenbach, MercuryNews.com, October 21, 2009.
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_13608318

"Search engine powerhouse Google is facing new complaints over its
book-scanning digital library project-from Chinese authors who say their
copyrights are being violated."
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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
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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