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See Peter Jaszi's Latest Post on the CIP's Collectanea Blog!!

Worth the Wait - Installment #1
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

"So, finally, the Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress have spoken
(not quite with one voice, of which to come), in the fourth approximately
triennial rule-making under Sec. 1201(a)(1) of Title 17, which we were given
as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. "

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Copyright and Remixing Kanye West Tweets and New Yorker Cartoons.
By Edward Lee, The Huffington Post, August 10, 2010.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-lee/copyright-and-remixing-ka_b_670789.h
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Something momentous is happening today on the Internet. Remix culture just
won a major victory. A comedy singing group named Paul and Storm took a bunch
of New Yorker cartoons and remixed their captions with tweets from Kanye West.
The remixed cartoons were hilarious -- the Kanye captions even better than the
original!
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Judge Refuses to Sanction Artist Suing AP in Copyright Dispute.
By Tim Ramstack, All Headline News, August 9, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2cdgcel

A judge last week refused to grant sanctions against artist Shepard Fairey in
his copyright lawsuit involving an image of President Barack Obama.
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The Music Copyright Enforcers.
By John Bowe, The New York Times, August 6, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08music-t.html?_r=1

Baker, 30, is a licensing executive with Broadcast Music Incorporated,
otherwise known as BMI. The firm is a P.R.O., or performing rights
organization; P.R.O.s license the music of the songwriters and music
publishers they represent, collecting royalties whenever that music is played
in a public setting. Which means that if you buy a CD by, say, Ryan Adams, or
download one of his songs from iTunes, and play it at your family reunion,
even if 500 people come, you owe nothing. But if you play it at a restaurant
you own, then you must pay for the right to harness Adamss creativity to earn
money for yourself.
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Schumer Bill Protects Fashion Designers.
By Adrianne Pasquarelli, Cranes New York Business, August 6, 2010.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100806/SMALLBIZ/100809868

Attention copycats! Sen. Charles Schumer has introduced a new billthe
Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Actto protect original
fashion designs.
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Zittrain on NPR: Copyright decision not a get out of jail free card.
Harvard Law School News, August 6, 2010.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/08/06_zittrain.html

Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain recently appeared on NPRs On
The Media to discuss the recent decision by the Librarian of Congress that
jailbreaking a smart phone is not in violation the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA), which was enacted in 1998 to prevent the unauthorized
distribution of copyrighted material via new media.
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New Copyright Law Affects Educators.
By Meris Stansbury, eSchool News, August 5, 2010.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/08/05/new-copyright-law-affects-educators/

A new ruling from the U.S. Copyright Office will affect how higher education
students and teachers can use digital material in the classroom, thanks to the
proactive efforts of a university professor who says that increasing digital
literacy and student skills is a responsibility educators cant afford to
brush off.
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Judge: AdWords Did Not Infringe Rosetta Stone's Trademark.
By Wendy Davis, Media Post News, August 4, 2010.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=133275

Giving Google a decisive victory, a federal judge has ruled that the search
company's AdWords program did not infringe on trademarks owned by the language
instruction company Rosetta Stone.
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