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Tech Companies Fear Implications of Trade Pact.
By Joelle Tessler, Associated Press, April 20, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y7zxxdo

"Companies across the technology industry - from Internet access
providers to social networking sites to video-sharing services - are
bracing for this week's release of a draft of a trade agreement that
they fear could undermine all sorts of online activities."
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'Downfall' Parody Clips Slowly Being Removed from YouTube.
By Jason Linkins, Huffington Post, April 20, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y6b6fae

"Bad news for people who like to see the news of the day filtered
through parody videos of otherwise obscure German movies about Adolf
Hitler. Constantin Film, the copyright holder of the movie "Der
Untergang" (also known as "Downfall") has requested that YouTube take
down all instances in which their movie is being used satirically, and
YouTube is complying with this request."
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Man Gets Jail for Pirating Movies under House Arrest.
By Grant Gross, PC World, April 20, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y6amm3v

"A 22-year-old Ohio man has been sentenced to 29 months in prison for
selling counterfeit movies online while serving a home detention
sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice said."
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'Three-strikes' Rule Dropped from ACTA.
By Darren Pauli, NetworkWorld, April 20, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y5zp6v9

"The controversial three-strikes ban in the secretive
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) appears to have been
dropped."
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The Economist on Why Copyright Needs to Return to its Roots.
By Greg Fenton, Tech Dirt, April 20, 2010.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100412/0102298960.shtml

"An article in The Economist from earlier this month highlights what
many Techdirt readers know well: the current state vs the historical
intent of copyright brought forward by The Statute of Anne."
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Major Labels go bragh? Irish Judge Allows 3 Strikes.
By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, April 20, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yyb5czf

"The Irish High Court ruled on April 16 that cutting off the Internet
access of suspected P2P pirates was fine, that no data privacy rules
would be breached by doing so, and that such schemes are needed because
"the mischievous side of the human personality, containing a repulsive
aspect as well as an attractive and humorous one, has also come to the
fore over the Internet."
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Feds Hampered by Incomplete MPAA Piracy Data.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, April 19, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20002837-261.html

"Last summer, not long after the U.S. government began a review of how
piracy affects consumers and the nation's economy, the feds went to the
major movie studios for help. Representatives from the Government
Accountability Office (GAO), Congress' investigative arm, asked the
studios for information about a survey the studios had commissioned
(PDF) that concluded piracy and counterfeiting cost the film industry
$6.1 billion in 2005."
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Justice Stevens, the Man Who Saved Hollywood from Itself.
By Matthew Belloni, Hollywood Reporter, April 19, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y5o8azt

"As President Obama zeroes in on a replacement for retiring Supreme
Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Hollywood should be paying close
attention. Stevens' record serves as a perfect example of how much
influence a single vote can have on the entertainment industry. Joe
Mullin at Corporate Counsel has posted an interesting analysis of
Stevens' impact on intellectual property law, and it includes a nice
chunk devoted of the bowtied jurist's heavy footprint on the modern
copyright industry."
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U.S. Top Court to Hear Costco-Swatch Copyright Case.
By James Vicini, Reuters, April 19, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y36dsft

"The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear Costco Wholesale
Corp's (COST.O) appeal in a copyright infringement dispute with a Swatch
Group (UHR.VX) unit over imported Swiss-made watches."
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Canada: Copyright bill to be tabled this spring: Heritage Minister.
By Andrew Mayeda and Sarah Schmidt, National Post, April 18, 2010.
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2922248

"The federal government will soon unveil its latest version of
legislation to modernize Canada's copyright laws through a series of
reforms that will affect everything from what Canadians can play on
their iPods to how artists pay their bills."
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ACTA Draft Coming Next Week.
By Sara Jerome, Tech Daily, April 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y7pyov6

"Countries negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will
release a draft of the copyright treaty on April 21, the Office of the
United States Trade Representative announced Friday. It does not include
a rumored three-strikes approach to copyright violations, USTR said,
noting that "no participant is proposing" such a provision."
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Ireland is Latest with Plan to Cut into Copyright Violations.
By Eric Pfanner, New York Times, April 16, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/technology/17eircom.html?src=busln

"A judge in Ireland on Thursday cleared the way for the implementation
of a crackdown on Internet piracy, dismissing the Irish Data Protection
Commissioner's concerns that the plan could result in the invasion of
privacy."
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MPAA and RIAA Outline Chilling Copyright Charter.
By Marc Chacksfield, TechRadar.com, April 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y7rt75j

"Want to know how the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and
the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) want to control
copyright infringement in the US?"
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India: Activists Oppose 'Discriminatory' Amendment to Copyright Act.
By Manavi Deopura, Indian Express, April 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y7x38ue

"Opposing the upcoming amendment to the Copyright Act, 1957 that
proposes to exempt only the 'specially designed' formats like Braille to
help the disabled read, a group of disability rights activists on
Thursday said that the move is "discriminatory" to people not knowing
Braille and will be "counterproductive."
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The Uncertain Future of Cable Television.
By Robert J. Elsiberg, The Huffington Post, April 15, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y7tndmg

"When Comcast won its appeal against the FCC last week, it became one of
the great losing victories of all time. It was like winning a bet that
if you were smacked in the head with a tire iron, you wouldn't be
unconscious for more than an hour."
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It's Time to Fight the Copyright Police State.
By Molly Wood, CNET News, April 15, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-20002541-256.html

"Ok, nerds. It's time to mount up. We're going to war. We're living in
what is increasingly becoming a copyright and intellectual property
police state, and it's time we self-organize and do something about it.
Here's the deal. Recently, the office of the Intellectual Property
Enforcement Coordinator (a new post under the Obama administration)
asked for comments as it puts together its "Joint Strategic Plan" for
intellectual property enforcement. Yes, you the public are also invited
to comment, and that's what I'm hoping you'll do after you read this. Or
during. Or both."
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Viacom Says Google Ignored YouTube Copyright Concerns (Update1).
Edited by Michael Hytha, Steve Farr, San Francisco Chronicle, April 15,
2010.
http://tinyurl.com/y37bl5v

"Viacom Inc. says court documents show Google Inc. ignored warnings
about YouTube Inc.'s copyright violations and now uses the threat of
infringement to force content owners into licensing deals."
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