In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Australia - Online and On Air: The Waves in Radio.
By Elisabeth Sexton, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 13, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/23dpgex

"For 100 years, the law has recognised that copyright fees are payable
for transmitting music to the public via ''mechanical
contrivances''.Since 1911, that has prevented radio stations from
broadcasting recorded music unless they pay licence fees to record
labels and their musicians."

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Irish court rules in favour of ISPs in piracy case.
The BBC, October 12, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11521949

"The High Court in Ireland has ruled that laws cutting off internet
users who have illegally downloaded content cannot be enforced in the
country."

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Copyright Mark Makes it Easier to Find Royalty Free Works.
By Lawrence Latif, Inquirer, October 12, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/24dksv7

"Non-profit organization Creative Commons (CC) has announced its
release of the Public Domain Mark (PDM), a way of distinguishing works
that are free of known copyright."

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Democrat Fights Back Against Fox News Lawsuit.
By Reuters, US News Daily, October 12, 2010.
http://theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1223887&type=home

"Last month, Fox News filed an unprecedented lawsuit against
Democratic senatorial candidate Robin Carnahan, claiming she violated
its copyright by using a Fox News clip in a campaign commercial
against her challenger.Now, Carnahan has struck back, telling a
Missouri District Court that Fox News sued before properly registering
copyright on the clip."

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New Zealand: ACTA Provisions Further Weakened as "Finish Line" Nears.
By Stephen Bell, Computer World, October 11, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2a558nk

"The US Trade Representatives office has issued an official version
of the latest text of the ACTA treaty (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement). Commentators who have been apprehensive particularly about
the force of the chapter on copyright breach by internet downloading
are pleased that these provisions have been watered down in comparison
with original US proposals. However, they caution the agreement is not
finalised yet."

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Blog: The Absence of Common Sense from the Copyright Acts Treatment
of Software and the First Sale Doctrine.
By James Lafave, Intellectual Property Brief American University,
October 10, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/25z439w

"The Copyright Act has a long and occasionally questionable history of
adopting new technologies.  Whether considering photography, computer
programs, or television characters (a new candidate for protection);
the trend has been to widen the scope of the Act significantly to
encompass new technologies.  However, not all technologies fit easily
into the mold of traditional copyrights."

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Facebook Fails At The DMCA: Promises To Restore Counter-Noticed
Content, But Doesn't [Updated].
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, October 8, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2vlgd7n

"We recently wrote about how an ad firm connected to a movie had
misused the DMCA to takedown material off a Facebook fan page for the
movie Let Me In, specifically claiming that they were doing so because
they didn't want too many fans to use that page, rather than the
official movie page. Of course, that's not what the DMCA is for. "

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