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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Australia Urged to Back Copyright Levy Overhaul.
By Andrew Colley, AustralianIT, May 26, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3yj65mg

"Germany's peak ICT industry group BITKOM has called on Australia to join
international efforts to overhaul copyright levies on computing equipment and
storage mediums."
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LimeWire Begs Music Industry for Second Chance.
By David Kravets, Wired News, May 25, 2010.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/limewire-filtering/

"The company behind the file sharing software LimeWire is considering
aggressively filtering out pirated content and is hoping to strike a deal with
the music industry in which it would be permitted to live on as a for-pay
music download service, a company executive said Monday."
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Is Time Warner Cable About to Be Sued for Copyright Infringement?
By Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, May 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2c6hze3

"The legal campaign that targets tens of thousands of alleged movie pirates on
BitTorrent is getting more interesting. Now one of the nation's largest ISPs
could be held responsible for facilitating copyright infringement."
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1 Down, 5 to Go? isoHunt Neutered by US Judge.
By Nate Andersen, Ars Technica, May 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/32l8wzk

"An American judge, concerned about the "staggering volume of infringement"
taking place at BitTorrent search site isoHunt, has issued a permanent
injunction against the site and its owner, Canadian Gary Fung."
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US Copyright Official Discounts ACTA Concerns.
By Grant Gross, PC World, May 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/239ycrz

"U.S. copyright official Steven Tepp said Tuesday he doesn't understand many
of the current objections to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(ACTA), a 37-nation effort to enforce copyright and counterfeit laws across
international borders."
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UK News Pubs Take Meltwater to Court for Aggregator Ruling.
By Robert Andrews, paidContent.org, May 24, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3y78xh4

"In the argument over whether commercial news aggregators should pay
publishers for the privilege, the stakes were just raised. The Newspaper
Licensing Agency (NLA), which in January began charging public relations
monitors and their customers to index its members' sites, is now taking
non-compliant monitor Meltwater News to the High Court."
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Canada: Geist: An unofficial user's guide to the coming copyright bill.
By Michael Geist, The Toronto Star, May 24, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2cxg2dr

"Media reports last week indicated that the government plans to introduce its
long-awaited copyright reform bill within the next few days. The bill is sure
to spark widespread debate since all Canadians - whether consumers, creators,
businesses or educators - have a significant stake in the outcome."
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Irish ISP Launches Pilot Program Aimed at File Sharers.
By Jeremy Kirk, Network World, May 24, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2ahgloe

"Irish ISP Eircom launched a three-month pilot program on Monday that will see
those who repeatedly share files under copyright cut off from their Internet
service. Eircom is implementing the plan as the Irish Recorded Music
Association (IRMA) puts further pressure on other Irish ISPs to do the same by
taking them to court."
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Copyright Neglected.
By Isaac Stone Fish, News Week, May 24, 2010.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/238365

"This week, Hillary Clinton and Timothy Geithner are leading a team of almost
200 wonks to China for the Second Strategic and Economic Dialogue, where they
will try to push Beijing on issues ranging from the North Korean torpedo
crisis to indigenous innovation laws. An evergreen on this wish list is
China's persistent lack of copyright protection, especially in information
technology: almost 10 years after entering the WTO, Chinese companies and
underground organizations still pirate goods at an alarming scale, with expert
hackers who can reverse-engineer most products."
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RapidShare Didn't Infringe On Copyrights, Says US Court.
By Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica, May 22, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2uv58yr

"The US District Court of California denied adult entertainment company
Perfect 10's request for an injunction against file-sharing service RapidShare
on Thursday, saying that the company did not offer sufficient proof that
RapidShare itself had infringed on Perfect 10's copyrights."
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Copyright Registration for Collective Works: Meunch v. Houghton Mifflin.
By Jeneviev Maerker, Trademarkandcopyrightblog.com, May 22, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/35kladx

"A recent decision from the Southern District of New York should be of
interest to anyone responsible for registering the copyright in compilations
or collective works. In Muench Photography, Inc. v. Houghton Mifflin,
09-CV-2669 (S.D.N.Y. May 4, 2010) (PDF), the court ruled that the plaintiff,
which owned the copyright in certain photographs that defendant Houghton
Mifflin had licensed through a stock photo company called Corbis, did not hold
valid registrations and therefore had not fulfilled the 17 U.S.C. ' 411
prerequisite to suit. Plaintiff MPI claimed that Corbis had registered the
copyright in its photographs when it had registered an automated database
containing images by many different photographers."
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James Murdoch v British Library: it's all about copyright.
By Dan Sabbagh, Beehive City, May 21, 2010.
http://www.beehivecity.com/newspapers/murdoch-v-british-library122105/

"James Murdoch's gentle dig at the British Library over its plans to digitise
its entire archive of newspapers (including The Times and The Sun) stirred up
a wearyingly predictable set of reactions today."
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FP Tech Desk: U.S. Judge Slams Canada's Isohunt over Copyright Infringement
Allegations.
By Matt Hartley, Financial Post, May 21, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/38kvylk

"As Canadian politicians in Ottawa prepare to launch new copyright legislation
next week, Canada's most notorious file sharing Website is facing increasing
legal pressure from legal authorities in the United States."
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Amy Mata
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Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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