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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Check out Peter Jazi's latest post on the CIP's Collectanea Blog:
Who Cares about Costco Corp. v. Omega?

http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

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Treaty Targets Internet, Not Knock-off Purses.
By Margot Kaminski, San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/35u4e44

"On April 21, negotiators released the draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting
Trade Agreement - a treaty containing the biggest changes to
international intellectual property law since 1994. Negotiating
governments have until now stonewalled attempts to access the agreement,
which has prompted terrified speculation about border agents seizing
laptops to search for downloaded songs. The draft reveals what many
expected: The Internet, not counterfeit purses, is what is at issue
here."
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Twitter Removes Song Link Tweet after DMCA Complaint.
By Mark Hefflinger, Digital Media Wire, April 27, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/37wrzgp

"Citing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice,
Twitter has removed a user's tweet that contained links to download
songs from an album that leaked to file-sharing services before its
official release, Mashable reports."
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YouTube's Copyright Fight Flares Up.
By Javad Heydary, E-Commerce News, April 27, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2fksaun

"How determined was Viacom to keep its intellectual property off
YouTube? Not very, argues YouTube in its defense against Viacom's
billion-dollar copyright infringement suit. Google claims that Viacom
uploaded its own copyrighted video clips to YouTube for marketing
purposes, going as far as sending Viacom employees on special trips to
Internet cafes outside the company's premises to do the deed."
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Study: Fair Use Contributes Trillions to U.S. Economy.
By David Kravets, Wired, April 27, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2ffbaml

"One study after another purports to chronicle how much intellectual
property piracy hurts the economy, and contributes to every societal ill
from  terrorism to child porn and slavery. A new study unveiled Tuesday
sets out to examine intellectual property in a different light: How fair
use - which doesn't require permission from the copyright holder -
actually benefits the economy."
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Pirate Party of Canada Latest Option for Voters.
By Richard Mccallum, Digital Journal, April 27, 2010.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/291257

"In its own words The Pirate Party of Canada strives to reform Canadian
copyright laws, reform the patent system and protect every Canadian's
right to privacy. They are the new federal option for Canadian voters.
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Justice Appoints New FBI Agents, Attorneys to Focus on IP.
By Juliana Gruenwald, Tech Daily Dose, April 26, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/277ondk

"To mark the 10th anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day, the
Justice Department said Monday that it has appointed 15 new assistant
U.S. attorneys and 20 FBI special agents who will focus on combating
domestic and international intellectual property crimes."
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Historical Association Claims Copyright to Scans of 100 Year Old Photos.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, April 26, 2010.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100419/0051419072.shtml

"The Clinton County Historical Glass Negatives Portrait Project has been
"diligently identifying, sorting, re-sleeving and generally
rediscovering a collection of over 15,000 glass negatives dating back to
1897." They have made a selection of these photos available for purchase
as reprints, but they have also put all of the photos behind a copyright
gate that requires anyone viewing the photos agree to a ridiculously
large block of legalese."
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UK: Mobile Broadband Providers May Get a Pass on New Copyright Laws.
Broadband Genie, April 23, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3389fag

"Mobile broadband providers and small fixed-line ISPs may be made exempt
from the new rules under the Digital Economy Act which require them to
act against file-sharers on their service, according to The Register
today."
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Iowa State Daily Apologizes for Article Theft, Copyright Infringement.
By Zach Thompson, The Northern Iowan, April 22, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2d7bfa6

"Some of you may be aware of the fact that a column written by one of
the Northern Iowan's columnists, Trevor Boeckmann, was published in the
Iowa State Daily, the independent student newspaper serving the Iowa
State University community, April 14. Unfortunately, we went about
publishing the piece in all of the wrong ways. The Daily -- and many
other student newspapers across the country - had subscribed to a wire
service, known as U-Wire, for a number of years. The service provided us
with access to news and sports articles, as well as columns and
editorials from across the country for republishing in our paper."
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Blog: India's Copyright Bill Gets it Right.
By Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, April 22, 2010.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/22/indias-copyright-bil.html

"India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it
declares private, personal copying to be "fair dealing" (like US fair
use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only
illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright."
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Kirby Comix Copyright Case Cleared for Gotham.
By Allison Frankel, Law.com, April, 22, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2aex5zf

"A mere 10 days ago, we wrote about Marvel Entertainment outside counsel
David Fleischer fending off a $2 billion derivative suit involving an
erstwhile partner of legendary Marvel artist Stan Lee. On Wednesday,
Fleischer and co-counsel James Quinn of Weil, Gotshal & Manges scored
again for Marvel, this time in a case against the children of another
famed Marvel artist, Jack Kirby."
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U.S. Groups Slam Anti-Piracy Accord's Draft Text.
Reuters, Washington Post, April 21, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/37tgb6o

"U.S. digital rights advocates and a computer industry trade group on
Wednesday criticized the newly released draft text of an international
agreement to toughen penalties for copyright theft."
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Draft Copyright Treaty Not as Bad as Feared.
By Joseph Menn, Financial Times, April 21, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/23d6t38

"For months, civil libertarians and internet freedom advocates have been
fretting, with good cause, about the nominally secret multilateral
negotiations on a document called ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement."
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