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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Stanford Signs Google Book Search Agreement, Endorses Court Settlement.
Stanford University News, February 2, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yjyjajc

"Stanford University has affirmed its support for the recently amended
Google Book Search settlement agreement, which is now before a federal
court, by expanding its earlier agreement with Google Inc. to digitize
its library materials."
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Global Internet Industry Awaits Federal Court Decision on iiNet
Copyright Case.
By Patrick Stafford, Smart Company, February 2, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yez2shy

"The battle between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft
and Perth-based ISP iiNet will finally come to an end on Thursday, when
the Federal Court hands down its decision on the case that will change
the face of the telco and internet industries."
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Ruling on Online Term Papers Cites Copyright Questions.
By Mary Beth Marklein, USA Today, February 2, 2010.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-01-term-papers_N.htm

"A district court judge in Illinois has ordered the owner of a Web-based
company to stop selling term papers unless he can prove he has
permission from the papers' authors."
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UK ISP Talk Talk: Copyright Bill Will Increase Piracy.
Zeropaid, February 2, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ybr763q

"Warns that Digital Economy Bill, as written, will only "hasten the
migration away from P2P" as people develop tools and applications to
evade anti-piracy measures."
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Who Knew? 99% Of Available BitTorrent Files Violate Copyright.
By Karl Bode, DSLreports.com, February 2, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ydxlqjy

"Princeton Professor Ed Felten over at the Freedom To Tinker blog
explores a survey his students recently completed on BitTorrent file
availability that found, not surprisingly, that a significant majority
of the content available violates copyrights. Again, this is what's
available, not necessarily what's being actively downloaded, the survey
taking a random, 1021-file sample of files available via the trackerless
variant of BitTorrent, using the Mainline DHT. Of that data, just ten of
the files, or approximately 1% were likely to be non-infringing."
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Open Video Alliance Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig.
By Cameron Parkins, Creative Commons, February 2, 2010.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20481

"On Febuary 25th the Open Video Alliance will be hosting a wireside chat
with CC founding board member Lawrence Lessig to discuss copyright, fair
use, and online video. While the talk itself will be taking place at the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, it will
also be broadcast live online - as such, the OVA are encouraging
screenings to be set up around the globe."
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AP & Google Reach a Deal - Sort of
By Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land, February 1, 2010.
http://searchengineland.com/ap-google-reach-a-deal-sort-of-34875

"Google and the Associated Press have reached an agreement allowing
Google to continue using AP content. But whether this is a long-term
agreement replacing the one that expired last month is unclear. And
despite the agreement, AP stories won't be hosted by Google News any
time soon, it seems. Yahoo's also struck a new deal with the AP."
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Grandmother Cleared of Piracy Charge; Internet Access Restored.
By Mark Hefflinger, Digital Media Wire, February 1, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y9blfow

"San Francisco - A 53-year-old grandmother was wrongly accused by
copyright holders of downloading 18 films and TV shows, and further had
her Internet service suspended by Qwest before media inquiries
eventually helped resolve the matter, CNET News.com reported."
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Authors Cry Foul over Google 'Rights Grab'.
By Caroline Davies, The Gaurdian, February 1, 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/01/authors-google-rights-grab-b
ooks

"Proposed settlement could prove to be one of the most important
agreements in digital publishing."
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Louisiana AG Brokers End 'Who Dat' Spat.
By Chris Rizo, Legal News Line, February 1, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yfxf963

"The National Football League on Monday acknowledged that it does not
have exclusive copyright ownership of a popular New Orleans Saints
football rallying cry, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell told
Legal Newsline."
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Editorial: Google, Booked.
The Financial Express, February 1, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y93o8dn

"The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation and the Federation of
Indian Publishers, alongside 15 Indian authors and publishers, have
filed objections against the Google Book Settlement with a New York
District Court."
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Church Super Bowl Parties OK as Long as NFL Rules Followed, Experts Say.
By Robert Marus, Associated Baptist Press, January 29, 2010.
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4787/53/

"Despite crackdowns from the National Football League in recent years
that frightened many church leaders into abandoning watch parties for
America's biggest sporting event, experts say churches are free to host
viewings of Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 as long as they follow a few NFL
guidelines."
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Can You Fairly Distinguish Commercial vs. Non-Commercial Use in
Copyright?
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, January 29, 2010.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100127/0658337941.shtml

"One issue that comes up in discussions of copyright quite often is the
idea of whether or not you could change copyright law to distinguish
between commercial and non-commercial use. In some ways this is quite
appealing, and Cory Doctorow's latest column makes the case for at least
exploring those distinctions. However, even he admits that there is a
gray area, and I wonder if that gray area is really complex."
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Blogging ACTA across the Globe: Lessons from Korea.
By Heesob Nam, Commentary by Danny O'Brien, EFF, January 29, 2010.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/acta-and-korea

"If there's one country that might have insight into what a post-ACTA
future may look like, it's the Republic of Korea. Korea is known as
having one of the most advanced networks in the world, but more recently
it has also been the recipient of some of the strongest foreign pressure
to ramp up its IP laws. Heesob Nam is a member (and former Chair) of
IPLeft, a Korean digital rights activist group founded in 1999 to
critique the increasingly maximalist IP rights agenda in that country,
and research and present alternative policy proposals. He writes of the
impact on Korea of ACTA and other international IP agreements."
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Google's Digital Book Settlement Still Under Fire.
By Michael Liedtke, ABC News, January 28, 2010.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9691440

"Google Inc.'s bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books
remains under attack from rivals and other critics trying to block a
revised legal settlement that would unlock a vast electronic library.
The opposition fired its latest salvo Thursday, the deadline for filing
objections with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York."
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Jammie Thomas Rejects RIAA's $25,000 Settlement Offer.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, January 27, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10442482-261.html

"The four top recording companies on Wednesday made a settlement offer
to Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman who was found liable last
summer of willful copyright infringement and ordered by a jury to pay
$1.92 million in damages. And wasting little time, Thomas-Rasset's
attorneys rejected the settlement offer almost immediately."
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EMI/Vimeo Lawsuit Leaves Lip-Dubbers Speechless.
By Justin Silverman, Citizen Media Law Project, January 27, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yazll9h

"Several record labels working under the EMI Music group filed a
complaint on December 10, 2009, alleging that Vimeo not only hosts
high-quality, full-length recordings of their music, but also "actively
encourages" and "induces" its users to post that music as part of
original work, most commonly "lip dubs." No doubt based on videos like
the one above, the complaint also alleges that Vimeo staff participates
in "making, selecting, commenting on, and at times choosing to delete
audiovisual works that comprise the Video website."
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Blog: ACTA Guide, Part Three: Transparency and ACTA Secrecy.
By Michael Geist, Michael Geist Blog, January 27, 2010.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4737/125/

"Part Three of the ACTA Guide focuses on the issue that has dogged the
proposed agreement since it was first announced - the lack of
transparency associated with the text and the talks."
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China's Baidu Wins Court Case Against Music Groups.
By Kate Holton, Reuters, January 26, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P4J220100126

"China's most popular search engine Baidu has been cleared of piracy in
a dispute with the music industry, the IFPI trade body for the music
sector said on Tuesday."
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