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[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Don't Miss Peter Jaszi's Latest Post on the CIP's Collectanea Blog:
Going to School at Georgia State!
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

"As I've suggested before, we don't really have much direct
information from the courts, which have the last word on this matters,
about what constitutes fair use in an educational setting."

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Anonymous plans to slow DDoS attacks, outlines patent and copyright reform.
By Steve Ragan, The Tech Herald, November 9, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/39vqtpz

"Anonymous, the collective with no base of operations, looks as if it
will tone down the wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attacks launched several weeks ago, moving towards a grassroots
campaign to reform both patent and copyright law. After the attacks
however, will anyone listen? According to Anonymous, they'd better...
or else."

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Justices debate watch prices, medical students.
By Bill Mears, CNN, November 8, 2010.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/08/scotus.cases/

"Two business giants -- one a upscale manufacturer, the other a
discount retailer -- clashed at the Supreme Court Monday in an
important business case dealing with imported goods sold at low cost
in the United States.At issue is whether a copyright holder can block
the re-sale of a foreign-made item, after it is later brought to the
United States and sold for up to a third less than it might cost
elsewhere."

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Copyright scandal cooks up online frontier justice.
By Ivor Tossell, The Globe and Mail, November 8, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/25fje7n

"Have you heard about Cooks Source magazine, and the mighty justice
that was meted out upon it last week? Well, no matter. You have
now.The Internet is capricious about the things it brings to our
attention. In this case, the object of its scorn was Cooks Source, a
small New England cooking magazine too poor even to afford an
apostrophe for its name. It seems that its editor was in the habit of
purloining articles from the Web, and had been unpleasant to a victim
of her copy-pinching to boot."

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The government shouldn't hang on Google's every word.
By Charles Arthur, The Guardian, November 6, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/26cu3q6

"Recent statements from Cameron and Willetts on copyright and patents
show the dangers of being in thrall to IT giants."

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Cooks Source Copyright Infringement Becomes an Internet Meme.
By David Kravets, Wired News, November 5, 2010.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/web-decries-infringement/

"An internet firestorm is brewing over a small New England magazine
accused of publishing recipes and articles lifted from the web without
permission."

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Europe to get copyright overhaul.
By David Meyer, ZDNet UK, 5 November, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/39a22e5

"The European Commission will soon make legislative proposals to
reform copyright law, digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes said on
Friday."

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Thomas-Rasset Damage Award: The Strange, Unpredictable World of
Copyright Damages.
Legal Analysis by Corynne McSherry, EFF, November 5, 2010.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/thomas-rasset-damage-award-strange-unpredictable

"After a brief deliberation, a jury this week awarded $1.5 million in
statutory damages ($62,500 per recording) to the record label
plaintiffs in Capitol v. Thomas-Rasset. The case has repeatedly made
headlines as the first action against an individual accused of illegal
file-sharing to make it to the trial stage. As the litigation
proceeded, however, the case (as well as another individual
filesharing case, Sony v. Tenenbaum) has taken on new importance by
shining a light on the irrationality of copyright remedies."
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