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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Lawsuit Dropped; Claimed That Copyright-Filtering Violates Copyright.
By David Kravets, Wired, July 19, 2010.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyrightfiltering-scribd/

"Lawyers have abandoned a closely watched lawsuit against the
document-sharing site Scribd that alleged the site's copyright filtering
technology is itself a form of copyright infringement."
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Appeals Court Affirms 'We Are Marshall' Copyright Ruling.
By Kelly Holleran, The Record, July 19, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2vuhk3b

"Producers of the film "We Are Marshall" did not infringe on copyright
laws as alleged by the makers of the documentary "Ashes to Glory,"
judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District found."
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Russia's Medvedev Says Copyright Protection Bone in WTO Accession.
RIA Novosti, July 19, 2010.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100719/159869508.html

"Problems in copyright and intellectual property rights protection
hamper Russia's WTO accession, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on
Monday."
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CCIA Releases EU Study Calculating Economic Value of Copyright
Exceptions.
Music Industry News, July 19, 2010.
http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=132147

"Industries that rely on exceptions and limitations that balance
copyright laws are growing 3 percent faster than the rest of the EU
economy, according to a new study released by the Computer &
Communications Industry Association."
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BookLiberator Lets You Make E-Books Cheaply (And is Definitely Not
Intended for Copyright Violation!)
By Andy Greenberg, Forbes, July 19, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2d23725

"Remember the sense of liberation that came from digitizing your CDs and
then chucking a decade or two's accumulation of archaic plastic? James
Vasile and Ian Sullivan want to give you that gratification again--this
time from rendering into bits your hundreds of pounds of dead trees."
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Why Web Host Shut Down 73,000 Blogs a Mystery.
By Greg Sandoval, CNET News, July 18, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010872-261.html

"Blogetery.com, a little-known WordPress platform used by more than
70,000 blogs, was shut down by its Web hosting company more than a week
ago and nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible."
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Performance Rights Group Takes Down YouTube Video of Auschwitz Survivor
Dancing to 'I Will Survive' at Aushwitz.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, July 16, 2010.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100716/15281610251.shtml

"Story about an Auschwitz survivor, who went back to Auswitz with his
grandkids and recently filmed a video of them dancing to Gloria Gaynor's
I Will Survive -- as a way to celebrate life and the ability to overcome
obstacles. The story is about the basic controversy over the video, as
some folks find it offensive and others find it heartwarming. However,
Benny notes that the video has been taken down. The video attached to
that HuffPo story, when you click on it, says "This video is no longer
available due to a copyright claim made by APRA."
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A Promotion for Progress: Seeking the Third Way for Copyright.
By Christina Gagnier, The Huffington Post, July 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/29swbzu

"A week ago, the damages award heard around the copyright world came
with United States District Court Judge Nancy Gertner's decision to
slash the damages award the jury found in RIAA v. Tenenbaum against Joel
Tenenbaum from $675,000 to $67,500. While a dearth of news articles and
blogs are covering the obvious, that the mighty industry trade
association plaintiff, the graduate student defendant and copyright
scholars and activists alike are not happy with the decision, Tenenbaum
stands as the most public example of where the system has allowed
copyright to go. In the wake of Eldred v. Ashcroft, now seven years ago,
we still have a system that at times works more so for large corporate
interests and at other times works for no one."
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Disagreements on Transparency Fail to Stop ACTA Treaty Leak.
By Peter Sayer, PC World, July 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/33pjzka

"Disagreements between the European Union and the U.S. over whether to
release the current negotiating text of a secretive international
copyright treaty became moot this week, with the publication on a French
website of a leaked version of the latest draft of the treaty."
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UK Royalty Society Suggests ISPs Pay for Pirated Music.
By Jeremy Kirk, PC World, July 15, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/36z6c5g

"A U.K. music royalty collection society has suggested charging ISPs for
pirated content traded on their networks, as the organization claims
piracy will worsen with faster broadband speeds."
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RIAA's Losing Gamble: Spends $63M for copyright suits
By Wendy Davis, Media Post Publications, July 15, 2010.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=1
32004

"The Recording Industry Association of America previously said that
suing people who shared music on peer-to-peer networks was an
unprofitable endeavor. But it wasn't clear until this week just how big
the RIAA's losses were."
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Google Finances Projects to Test Digital Library.
The Associated Press, July 15, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/38jpap8

"Google Inc. is giving researchers nearly a half-million dollars to test
the academic value of its rapidly growing online library."
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Will the White House Sell Out to Big Telecom? Or Will 'Dear Valerie'
Jarrett Save the Day?
By Art Brodsky, The Huffington Post, July 14, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/26fjz8u

"Did White House business liaison "Dear Valerie" Jarrett just give the
big kiss-off to Verizon Chairman Ivan Seidenberg? Or did she invite more
negotiations on some crucial telecommunications issues?"
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Vimeo Announces Creative Commons Licensing - But Are Users' Hands Tied?
By Grant Crowell, Reel SEO, July 14, 2010.
http://www.reelseo.com/vimeo-announces-creative-commons-licensing-hands-
tied/

"Video hosting platform Vimeo yesterday announced on its blog its
support for Creative Commons licensing, providing its members a more
precise control over where and how others can use their own videos. But
restrictions persist with how members can feature other rights-owners
videos and other original works on Vimeo, even if they have the same
clearances that Creative Commons provides."
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UK: Pink Floyd Manager Calls for Copyright Law Overhaul.
By Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing.co.uk, July 14, 2010.
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2266474/pink-floyd-manager-cal
ls

"Peter Jenner, Pink Floyd manager and emeritus president of the
International Music Managers' Forum (IMMF), claims that when it comes to
copyright in the UK, "the law is broken". He suggested that copyright
law must be rebuilt from scratch, particularly in today's digital world
where we "cannot control the right to copy."
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Amy Mata
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Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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