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["Amy Mata" <AMata@xxxxxxxx>]

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Will Apple Gain from Oracle-Google Fight?
By Mark Walsh, Media Post Publications, August 17, 2010.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=1
33884

"With Oracle Corp. suing Google for patent and copyright infringement
over its use of Java software in Android, the stage is set for a battle
of true Silicon Valley superpowers. Depending on how much they want to
spend on litigation, it could be the intellectual property equivalent of
an irresistible force meeting an immovable object."
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Woman Loses $88M Video Game Copyright Suit.
By Ken Sweet, FOX Business, August 17, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2g2dy9f

"A woman who ran a pirated version of Activision-Blizzard's popular
online game "World of Warcraft" lost an $88 million lawsuit last week in
one of the first suits related to the pirated hosting of an online game
rather than the pirated copying of software itself."
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Blog: Copyright Concerns That Tackle Web Design.
By Marc Sylvester, Laughingbirdsoftware.com, August 17, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/234lavv

"Despite the rising popularity of the Internet, a lot of people do not
know how copyright laws can affect web content and web designing. What
this means, basically, is that any of the site's content with its
design, that is in existence already, cannot be duplicated.
Graphics, the color scheme, links, logo, and all of the other site's
content can be covered by the copyright."
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Best Buy Takes on Priest for Copyright Violation Over 'God Squad'
Mobile.
By Cristina Corbin, FOX News, August 17, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2e7kxc3

"It's God versus the Geeks. A major electronics retailer is threatening
legal action against a Wisconsin priest over his "God Squad" vehicle,
claiming the logo on the clergyman's Volkswagen Beetle is identical to
its own "Geek Squad" design."
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Oracle Sues Google in Android Stoush.
By James Thompson, NZ Herald, August 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/38f3tq6

"US software specialist Oracle has launched a copyright and patent
infringement lawsuit against Google, claiming that the search engine
giant's mobile phone operating system uses elements of its technology."
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Video Copyright Owners Must Police the Internet.
By James Chadwick, Law Technology News, August 16, 2010.
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202466695
461

"It's the video millennium. Every modern mobile phone is a video camera
and a video player. Video displays are everywhere, from taxicabs to
endcaps. Webcams perch like pigeons on every major tourist destination
in the world. So it's no surprise that video sharing has become an
industry, and that legal controversy has followed.
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Is This the Birth of the Copyright Troll?
By Joe Mullin, Law.com, August 16, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/25nawrn

"Steve Gibson is a bit taken aback by the attention his new business,
copyright holding company Righthaven LLC, has begun to attract. He
probably shouldn't be. After all, when you file more than 100
infringement suits in just a few months-using a batch of newspaper
copyrights to target, among others, political discussion boards, a major
political party, and several of the newspaper's own sources-it's the
sort of thing people tend to notice, and not always in a good way."
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Why Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery.
By Kal Raustiala & Christopher Sprigman, The New York Times, August 12,
2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/opinion/13raustiala.html?_r=1
"New York City is one of the world's great centers of fashion. So it's
not surprising that New York's senior senator, Charles E. Schumer, would
take an interest in fashion designers. Last week he introduced
legislation that would rewrite copyright law to cover their designs. But
his bill could hurt the fashion industry more than it would help, and
raise consumer prices along the way."
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Viacom to Appeal YouTube Copyright Ruling.
By Antone Gonsalvez, Information Week, August 12, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2ahmm89

"A full appellate brief appealing U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton's
ruling that Google-owned YouTube had taken sufficient steps to deal with
copyright violations on the online video-sharing service is expected in
the fall."
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Lime Wire Seeks Jury Trial in Music Publisher's Suit.
By Don Jeffrey, Business Week, August 11, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2cfbgs6

"Lime Wire LLC, the operator of a file-sharing website that a judge said
infringed copyrights on recordings, requested a jury trial in a separate
lawsuit filed by music publishers."
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Amy Mata
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
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