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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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When Declining to Enforce your Intellectual Property Rights Strengthens
your Market Position.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, January 20, 2010.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100115/1737037782.shtml

"Over the years we've shown many examples of times when it makes much
more business sense not to enforce your intellectual property rights,
but reader Jerry Leichter sends in another example. It discusses how
Apple is benefiting from not going after those who copy its iPhone UI,
suggesting that Apple's aggressiveness in such lawsuits with PCs helped
Microsoft win the personal computer war in the 80s and 90s."
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EMI Licenses Songs to New Ad-Supported Site.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, January 19, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yeaj5jq

"EMI Music has licensed music to ad-supported music service
FreeAllMusic.com, becoming the second major label to partner with the
start-up."
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An Antitrust Complaint for Google in Germany.
By Eric Pfanner, The New York Times, January 18, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/technology/19antitrust.html?em

"Google said on Monday that it faced antitrust complaints in Germany
from newspaper and magazine publishers who want the company to pay for
using article snippets in its Web news service and search results."
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What are the Music Industries?
By Chris Castiglione, Music Think Tank, January 18, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yhnotmq

"The term 'music industry' is a misnomer. In reality the 'music
industry' is not one industry, it is several independent industries.
This is an important distinction because if we say that there is a
"crisis in the music industry" it suggests an equal amount of misfortune
for everyone (musicians, the recording industry, the live-music
industry, Internet radio, etc.) and in fact this not true. Misuse of the
term 'music industry' distorts the reality of the situation."
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Report: New York Times to charge online readers.
By Steven Musil, CNET News, January 17, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10436455-93.html?tag=mncol

"The New York Times is reportedly getting ready to charge readers for
access to the venerable newspaper's online content."
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Apple App Store Has Lost $450 Million to Piracy--Or Perhaps Not By Jeff
Bertolucci, PC World, January 14, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/18r

"Estimating the financial impact of software piracy is always a tricky
business. Data needed for accurate number-crunching is often impossible
to obtain, a fact that leads to fair amount of guesswork on the part of
the researchers. As a result, any dollar figure attributed to piracy is
often highly debatable."
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RIAA: Net neutrality shouldn't inhibit antipiracy.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, January 14, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10435388-261.html

"The lobbying group for the top four recording companies wants to make
sure that when regulations on Net neutrality are adopted, they don't
impede antipiracy efforts."
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Blog: Data collection, the pursuit of knowledge, and intellectual
property rights.
By Jeff Yates, PrawfsBlog, January 2, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ycf6z73

"Yates discusses the social norm within academic circles of freely
sharing data used in research, and wonders if there shouldn't be some
sort of intellectual property protection on the data. He isn't claiming
that there definitely should be -- he's just exploring the topic, and
questioning whether or not it makes sense."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College Rm. 2293, Largo, 3501
University Boulevard East Adelphi, MD  20783
(240) 684-2967 office
(240) 684-2961 fax
amata@xxxxxxxx
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