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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Music Journalism is the New Piracy.
By Tim Jones, EFF, February 16, 2010.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/musicblogocide

"Imagine you're a music journalist who maintains a blog. You've just found a
great, new, virtually-unknown artist that you want to tell the world about.
How can you do so, in a way that is simple and convenient for your readers,
but does not place you or your blog's host at risk of being sued?
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Press Release: Public Knowledge Proposes New Copyright Act Reform.
Public Knowledge, February 15, 2010.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2906

"Saying that, "We need a bolder vision that starts to break down the barriers
to free culture - that starts to break the vise grip the few and powerful have
on ownership," Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn
announced a new five-part Copyright Reform Act."
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Tanzania: Government to Review Copyright Law to Curb Piracy.
By Faraja Mgwabati, AllAfrica.com, 14 February 2010.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201002151776.html

"President Jakaya Kikwete has pledged to end the misery of piracy against
artists' work by giving teeth to the law governing copyrights."
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UK: Publicans Toast Ruling on Music Copyright.
News.Scotsman.com, February 13, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yl6hg9v

"Pub landlords across the UK are celebrating a possible windfall to the tune
of #20 million."
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US Announces Intellectual Property Watchdog.
By Diane Bartz, Reuters, February 12, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1224904520100212

"The U.S. Justice Department is forming an intellectual property task force
because of what some estimate to be billions of dollars in losses from
copyright piracy."
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U.K. Court Acquits Stream Index TV-Links of Copyright Charges.
By Hefflinger, Digital Media Wire, February 12, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yhuu6a7

"TV-Links, now-defunct U.K. website that offered links to unauthorized
streaming TV episodes on third-party websites, has been found not guilty of
conspiracy to defraud and violations of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act,
TorrentFreak reported."
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Australia: Sensis Loses Case to Protect Copyright of Yellow Pages and White
Pages.
By James Thomson, Smart Company, February 12, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yb3uxcw

"Telstra's directories division Sensis has lost its bid to protect the
copyright of its Yellow and White Pages phone directories after a judge ruled
that the creation of directories did not involve some "creative spark."
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Olympics Using Bogus Copyright Claims to Take Down All Videos of Fatal Luge
Crash.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, February 12, 2010.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1527178155.shtml

"As you probably heard today, just as reports warning about the luge track at
the Olympics were coming out, a Georgian luger crashed and died while on a
training run. It's a horrible situation all around, but it looks like the
International Olympic Committee is trying to stifle the whole thing by using
copyright claims to take down videos on YouTube, saying that only those who
paid for broadcast rights can show the video."
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Google Boots Music Blogs Claiming Copyright Fouls.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, February 11, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10451740-261.html

"Six music blogs hosted by Google's blogging services have been accused of
violating the company's terms of service by allegedly posting unauthorized
copyright material and have been booted from the sites."
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Google Staunchly Defends Pact to Digitize Books.
By Diane Bartz, Reuters, February 11, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61B0AN20100212

"Google Inc argued in a staunch and sometimes eloquent brief that an agreement
reached with the Authors Guild to digitize millions of books was legal and a
contribution to human knowledge."
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EFF, Library Groups Argue Against Autodesk Appeal.
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, February 11, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ycfml5d

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with several other groups including
the American Library Association, urged an appeals court to uphold a ruling in
a long-running suit related to secondhand software sales. The groups say that
if the ruling is overturned, secondhand sales of copyright items including
books and CDs could become illegal."
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File-swapper Headed for Third Trial on Copyright Charges.
By Mark Hefflinger, Digital Media Wire, February 10, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ygtnunb

"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has rejected a judge's
order reducing the damages convicted file-swapper Jammie Thomas-Rasset from
$1.92 million to $54,000, meaning that the Minnesota woman will now face a
third trial on the issue of damages, Ars Technica reported."
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Nintendo Pirate to Pay 1.5 Million.
The Sydney Morning Herald, February 9, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yhserhy

"A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after
illegally copying and uploading one of its new games to the internet ahead of
its release, the gaming giant says."
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Italy: Rome Trial Tackles Piracy Responsibility of Telecom Carriers.
By Philip Willan, The San Francisco Chronicle, February 9, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yfc7j87

"A trial is due to open in Rome Wednesday that pits a major antipiracy
organization against Telecom Italia and the national Privacy Authority over
who is responsible for policing the Internet."
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UCLA Pulls Videos from Course Sites after Copyright Challenge.
By Jill Laster, The Chronicle for Higher Education, February 2, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yjha3vw

"The University of California at Los Angeles has stopped posting copyrighted
videos on course Web sites after complaints from an educational-media trade
group, leaving other colleges worried about repercussions."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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