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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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The Most Important Copyright Decision of the Decade?

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Proposed Copyright Law Fails Canadian Artists.
Music Industry News Network, June 8, 2010.
http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=130762

"The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) criticized proposed
amendments to the Copyright Act tabled in the House of Commons today for
failing to strike a balance between Canadians' desire to make copies of
music onto digital audio devices, like the iPod and other MP3 players,
and the rights of Canadian artists to be paid for the use of their
work."
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Lime Wire Copyright Case Gets January Damages Trial.
By Don Jeffrey, Bloomberg News, June 7, 2010.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_15246868?nclick_check=1

"File-sharing website Lime Wire received a January trial date for
damages in a copyright infringement case brought by record companies
including Warner Music Group."
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YouTube vs. Hulu
Carolyn Duffy Marsan, NetworkWorld, June 7, 2010.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/198138/youtube_vs_hulu.html

"The argument between video Web sites Hulu and YouTube has all the
makings of a blockbuster movie. Upstart Hulu is competing against
Goliath YouTube to attract the attention of billions of users and an
increasing amount of ad dollars, against a backdrop of copyright and
piracy issues."
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The Copyright Debate and RSS.
By S. Housley, Cloud Computing Law, June 6, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2888vte

"RSS is commonly defined as really simple syndication. So, this means
that any material contained in a feed is available for syndication,
right? Well no, not exactly. It means that the content contained in an
RSS feed is in a format that is syndication friendly, if the copyright
holder allows for syndication. Offering a feed for syndication does not
in fact grant any legal rights to anyone to reuse the feeds content
beyond what the Copyright laws grant as Fair Use."
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Copyright Administrator Warns the Public Against Extortionists.
Peace FM Online, June 5, 2010.
http://news.peacefmonline.com/news/201006/45136.php

"The Copyright Office on Friday said some people have been extorting
monies from unsuspecting video and audio compact disc dealers under the
pretext of providing them mandate to freely exhibit copyright works
including pirated copyright works both local and foreign on the market."
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Thomas Reuters Accused of Copyright Violations.
By Darryl Greer, Courthouse News, June 5, 2010.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/04/27819.htm

"Attorney Lorne Waldman filed a $50 million class action demand against
Thomson Reuters Corp., claiming the media giant engages in and
encourages mass copyright violations by publishing attorneys' pleadings
on its Litigator database service, and "brand(s) documents with a
statement asserting that they are the owner of copyright."
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Canada: Copyright Bill May Muddy Waters on Digital Locks.
By Kathryn Leger, The Gazette, June 4, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/25kt8lf

"Try to log on to to view www.hulu.com, the hugely popular U.S. free
online service featuring episodes of hit television shows and movies,
from a computer in Canada and you will get a message saying: "Sorry,
currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United
States."
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Court Rejects Copyright Action against SyFy Channel.
By Steven M. Ellis, Metropolitan News-Enerprise, June 4, 2010.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2010/mont060410.htm

"The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday declined to reinstate
a lawsuit accusing NBC Universal and the former Sci-Fi Channel of
stealing the idea for the television show "Ghost Hunters."
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Venerable British Museum Enlists in the Wikipedia Revolution.
By Noam Cohen, The New York Times, June 4, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/arts/design/05wiki.html

"The British Museum has begun an unusual collaboration with Wikipedia,
the online, volunteer-written encyclopedia, to help ensure that the
museum's expertise and notable artifacts are reflected in that digital
reference's pages."
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Rights Groups Enter Illegal Downloading Fight.
By Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal, June 4, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3xwre4k

"Civil rights and consumer organizations are backing Time Warner Cable's
federal court effort to block subpoenas for the names and addresses of
thousands of individuals who allegedly downloaded movies illegally."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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