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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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See Peggy Hoon's latest post on the CIP's Collectanea Blog!

YouTube, Copyright, and Higher Education: Lessons from Viacom?
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

"If you are reading blogs, it is safe to assume that you know what
YouTube is. If you are reading this blog, it is probably also safe to
assume that you are aware that there are significant copyright issues
related to materials uploaded and available on the YouTube site. If you
are working at a college or university, you are also undoubtedly aware
that YouTube videos are frequently used by faculty in both F2F teaching
and in online courses."
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French Anti-Piracy Law Actually Increasing Piracy.
By David Muphy, Fox News, March 29, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yhq7wd7

"Don't pirate content in France: That's the mantra of the country's High
Authority for Copyright Protection and Dissemination of Works on the
Internet law (HADOPI 2), but it's not clear that its intended audience
has received the message loud and clear."
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UK Music Calls for Stronger Copyright Protection.
By Shane Richmond, Telegraph, March 29, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ykzk4hn

"UK Music, the umbrella organisation that represents various parts of
the British music industry, has released its recommendations for the
future of the industry, among them a call for stronger copyright
protections."
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Summary Judgment Motions Filed in Georgia State Copyright Infringement
Lawsuit.
By George H. Pike, InformationToday, March 29, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yjgdfta

"The increasingly testy copyright infringement lawsuit between Cambridge
University Press and other publishers and Georgia State University (GSU)
over electronic course materials may be coming to a climax. Both sides
have recently filed competing motions with the federal court in Atlanta
for a summary judgment decision on their behalf. The publishers are
relying on evidence that shows that GSU continues to infringe on their
copyrights beyond any reasonable fair use level. Georgia State asserted
initially that the law immunized them from past actions and that their
current actions do not violate the law due to fair use. Their motion for
summary judgment, however, minimizes fair use in favor of technical
legal arguments and assertions that they are not legally responsible for
any infringement taking place."
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Lawmakers Gripe about Broadband Plan's Copyright Suggestions.
By Wendy Davis, MediaPost Publications, March 26, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yfgsfvh

"Education expert Ryan Goble, who creates English language study guides,
wanted to use Beatles lyrics but found the $3,000-plus licensing fee
prohibitive. "Some rich and exciting songs will be out of our price and
never written up as curriculum for a mass teacher audience," he
complained."
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Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Raises Constitutional Concerns.
By Jack Goldsmith and Lawrence Lessig, Washington Post, March 26, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ylcd5ng

"The leaked draft of ACTA belies the U.S. trade representative's
assertions that the agreement would not alter U.S. intellectual property
law. And it raises the stakes on the constitutionally dubious method by
which the administration proposes to make the agreement binding on the
United States."
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Charlie Daniels' Signature Song at Heart of Copyright Dispute.
By Brian Reisinger, The Nashville Business Journal, March 26, 2010.
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2010/03/29/story2.htm
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"Decades after writing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," Charlie Daniels
is still chasing his own shiny fiddle made of gold: full rights to that
classic song and dozens of others he wrote when his career was heating
up. The country and Southern rock icon is waging an attempt to regain
his copyrights decades after he signed them away - placing Nashville at
the forefront of a simmering legal issue that stands to put countless
writers at odds with publishing companies over when a song, story or
other work returns to its creator."
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Lawmakers Warn Against Regulation after U.S. Internet Plan.
By Todd Shields, Business Week, March 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yclosgl

"Republican lawmakers said the Federal Communications Commission's plan
to expand high-speed Internet shouldn't be followed with broad
regulations."
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Viacom Chief Says YouTube Clips Weren't Licensed (Update1).
By Sarah Rabil, Business Week, March 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y9hlgde

"March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Viacom Inc. videos uploaded to Google Inc.'s
YouTube Web site weren't licensed, conflicting with the cable-television
company's practice of licensing its content, Viacom Chief Executive
Officer Philippe Dauman said."
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Draft of ACTA Trade Deal Leaks.
By Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post, March 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/ykc2ye9

"Earlier this week, a draft of one of my least favorite
intellectual-property proposals, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(ACTA), showed up on the Internet."
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Biz to Obama: Put teeth in piracy plan.
By Ted Johnson, Variety, March 24, 2010.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016886.html?categoryId=22&cs=1

"Once again sounding the alarm on the threat of copyright theft to the
entertainment industry, a coalition of studios, record labels and labor
unions on Wednesday urged the White House to deploy a broad array of
techniques to combat piracy."
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Amy Mata
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Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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