In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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AU: YouTube copyright caution for start-ups.
By Michelle Hammond, Start Up Smart, October 26, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2ukk9d7

"The Australian Copyright Council has urged businesses to tread
carefully when using YouTube content to avoid copyright infringement."

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French Music Labels Reporting 25,000 Infringements to Copyright Authority
Daily.
Staff, BroadbandBreakfast, October 25, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/29vonln

"Copyright holders in the French music industry are reporting a
staggering 25,000 music-related infringements to the countrys top
enforcement authority on a daily basis, according to a a music
industry trade group director quoted in the trade magazine Billboard."

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Japan Arrests Pirates.
By Mark Schilling, Variety Magazine, October 25, 2010.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118026230.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1

"The Tokyo Metropolitan Police High-Tech Crime Center and police in
Tokyo's Harajuku district have arrested three individuals for
violating Japan's Copyright Law by transmitting domestic TV programs
to Japanese living abroad, the Center announced on Friday."

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Blog: Copyright the Canadian Way.
By Michael Geist, Michael Geist Blog, October 25, 2010.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5401/125/

"This week's Hill Times features an op-ed by Sara Bannerman that
explores the Canadian history of fighting for independent copyright
policies.  Bannerman notes that Bill C-32 "is more like a Canadian
version of the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act than a
made-in-Canada solution to copyright in the digital age."

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Gene Simmons Battles Anonymous Anti-Copyright Group.
Submitted by Jack Korba, American University Intellectual Property
Brief, October 23, 3010.
http://tinyurl.com/253jtt2

"KISS bassist Gene Simmons has started a war of the words with an
anti-copyright group, calling themselves Anonymous, responsible for a
number of DDoS attacks on industry organizations.  The group is
associated with the message board 4Chan and have targeted such groups
as the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry
Association of America, and the Australian Federation Against
Copyright Theft.  These attacks have stood out mainly because of their
scale and success, causing hours of downtime at these organizations."

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Message Which Brought Hope Now Copyright of Chile Miner.
BBC News, October 22, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11605409

"The message that announced the trapped Chile miners were alive and
well is now the copyright of the man who wrote it."

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Piracy Domain Seizure Bill Gains Support.
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News, October 22, 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20020408-38.html

"A proposed law allowing the government to pull the plug on Web sites
accused of aiding piracy received a sizable political boost
yesterday."

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Judge Tells Copyright Troll Righthaven No, Its Fair Use.
By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, October 21, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/35gzm4l

"Righthaven, the company that scours the Web for copies of Las Vegas
Review Journal stories and then sues the posters for mad cash and
their domain names, has hit a small bump on the copyright lawsuit
superhighway. A federal judge has just tossed one of its many cases
because the posting was a "fair use."

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Viacom Taps Ted Olson for YouTube Appeal.
By Brian Baxter, The AM Law Daily, October 21, 2010.
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/10/ted-olson-viacom-youtube.htm
l

"The copyright infringement war between Viacom and Google's YouTube
unit got a little hotter on Thursday with the addition of appellate
maestro Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher."

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HathiTrust's Copyright Detectives.
By David Rapp, Library Journal, October 21, 2010.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887388-264/hathitrusts_copyright_detect
ives.html.csp

"An ongoing, grant-funded initiative involving the HathiTrust digital
repository has been tracking down previously unknown public-domain
materials in the repository's vast collection of scanned works from
research libraries across the country."

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