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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Westergren keeps promise: Pandora profitable.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, January 12, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y8z8xv4

"Pandora, the popular music recommendation and online radio service,
said Tuesday that it has recorded its first quarterly profit and is now
striving to be profitable for all of 2010."
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Mashup Artist Calls for Changes in Copyright Law.
By Grant Gross, Computer World, January 12, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ydykv7t

"U.S. copyright law should be updated to better reflect the changing
ways that mashup artists and other new content creators use existing
works, some participants in the first World's Fair Use Day said."
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Fair Use And Films: Does Running Everything By The Lawyers Really
Improve Your Film?
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, January 12, 2010.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2220247711.shtml

"After the panel discussion on ACTA, a special "Fair Use Film Screening"
(again, as a part of World's Fair Use Day) was held in the same
building, in the offices of the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, which was
quite a lot of fun. It really wasn't so much a "film screening" as it
was a panel discussion with a few short film clips shown. The panel
consisted of Mark Hosler of the band Negativland as the moderator (who,
of course, went through the fair use battles before many of the younger
generation was even born, let alone had to consider this stuff), along
with Brett Gaylor, discussing his film RIP: A Remix Manifesto and
Kembrew McLeod, discussing his film Copyright Criminals."
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Blog: Record Labels Demand Cash from Pirate Bay Founders.
Posted on TorrentFreak, January 11, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ye8ob39

"Universal Music, EMI Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music are demanding one
million Swedish kronor from two Pirate Bay founders. A Swedish court
banned them from operating the site last year, and the labels argue that
they have failed to comply."
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Google Apologizes to Chinese Authors for Book Scanning.
By Owen Fletcher, The New York Times, January 11, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ybpnb2t

"Google has apologized to a Chinese authors' group over its scanning of
books by local writers into an online search system, moving to defuse
copyright concerns around the project in China."
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Canada: Authors Want Out of Google Books Deal.
By Roberto Rocha, The Gazette, January 9, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yku22zt

"A group of writers wants Canada out of the Google Books settlement,
which would create a huge digital library of books for anyone to see,
and asks the federal government to loudly oppose the deal."
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Behind the Warner Bros. and Netflix Accord.
By Brad Stone, The New York Times, January 8, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ycomho2

"Earlier this week, Netflix cut a deal with Warner Bros. that will delay
the availability of new Warner movies to Netflix subscribers by almost a
month but expand the number of older Warner films available for digital
streaming."
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Viacom, YouTube Inch toward Courtroom Showdown.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, January 7, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10429617-261.html

"Google and Viacom are preparing to throw legal blows at each other as
part of Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube, according
to documents filed with a federal court last month."
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Scotland: Pupils struggle to take piracy subject seriously.
By Tristan Stewart-Robertson, News.scotsman.com, January 6, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yhw6vwf

"'DON'T do drugs" is a simple message to direct at pupils, but "don't
download pirated films, games and music" is a message that is not as
straightforward for them to understand."
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Center For Intellectual Property
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