In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Stevie Wonder Lobbies UN over Audiobooks for the Visually Impaired.
By Sean Michaels, The Guardian, September 21, 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/21/stevie-wonder-lobbies-un-audioboo
ks

"Singer offers to perform an 'incredible concert' if copyright law is
changed  but threatens to 'write a song about what you didn't do' if
not."

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Alleged HDCP Encryption Crack Is No Pirate Bonanza.
By David Kravets, Wired News, September 15, 2010.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/no-pirate-bonanza/

"Hollywood studios and the maker and licensing authority of the
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard were scrambling
Wednesday to determine whether a so-called master key to the
anti-piracy encryption technology has leaked onto the internet."

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Australia: There's Trouble Ahead on Copyright Judgment.
By Michael Pelly, The Australian, September 20, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2bqacu3

"the humble headline has no creative value on its own, according to a
Federal Court decision earlier this month involving The Australian
Financial Review."Headlines generally are, like titles, simply too
insubstantial and too short to qualify for copyright protection as
literary works," said judge Annabelle Bennett."

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Broadband ISPs Help UK Achieve 500 Million Legal Music Downloads.
By Mark J., ISP Review, September 18, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/36mzgm7

"The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a self-confessed
representative voice of the UK recorded music business (Copyright
Holders), reports that the number of legal digital music downloads
over broadband internet connections in the UK has now surpassed the
500 Million mark."

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Copyright and Football: A Guest Post.
By Freakonomics, The New York Times, September 17, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3xg6tsc

"Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA
International Institute, and Chris Sprigman, a professor at the
University of Virginia Law School, are experts in counterfeiting and
intellectual property.  They have been guest-blogging for us about
copyright issues.  Today, they write about copyrighting and football."

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Rights-holders Bear Brunt of Costs of Chasing Pirates.
The BBC, September 14, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11297033

"The music and film industry will pay three-quarters of the costs of
pursuing net pirates, with internet service providers paying the
remaining quarter."

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Designers Get Fierce With Copyright on the Catwalk.
By Kaomi Goetz, NPR, September 16, 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129834984

"As New York Fashion Week draws to a close, here are a few things the
industry has been seeing a lot of: tiny models, hordes of cameras and
the latest spring fashions being copied pretty much as soon as they
hit the runway.  But that last point is something designers are trying
to put a stop to."

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