In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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China to fight copyright pirates.
China Daily, December 1, 2010.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20101201-250248.
html

"The country is set to fight copyright infringement with top-down and
cross-ministry efforts, officials said on Tuesday."

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Pirate Bay Loses Copyright Conviction Appeal.
W. David Gardner, Information Week, December 1, 2010.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/data_protection/showArticle.jhtml
?articleID=228400194&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

"A Swedish court has reduced the prison sentences, but increased the
monetary damages levied against the founders of the file-sharing
site."

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 Justin Bieber Swears Off YouTube For Facebook, Unwittingly Steps In
Copyright Minefield.
By Oliver Chiang, Forbes, November 30, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2wdgsuq

"Over the past weekend, Internet pop sensation Justin Bieber went to
upload the music video of his new song called Pray to his personal
YouTube site. He was in for a rude surprise: YouTube automatically
blocked his video upload on copyright grounds that the video
contained content from Universal Music Group (UMG), parent company to
Biebers record label, Island Def Jam records."

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Business Matters: Supreme Court Refuses To Hear File Sharing Case.
By Glenn Peoples, Billboard Business, November 30, 2010.
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ibb4535c502b7b74be9
c5641553fa63a6

"The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case brought against a Texas
teen for illegally acquiring 37 songs through a file-sharing service.
Whitney Harper was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered
to pay $27,750. The lower court ruled Harper was an innocent
infringer who should have to pay far less for each infringement.
However, that ruling was overturned by a federal appeals court."

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Groups Vow to Fight Gov't Takedowns of Websites.
By Grant Gross, PC World, November 30, 2010.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211985/groups_vow_to_fight_govt
_takedowns_of_websites.html

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the operator of
Torrent-finder.com have separately vowed to fight domain-name seizures
by two U.S. agencies in recent days."

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If this is copyright, I'd rather be wrong.
By Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld, November 29, 2010.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/113010-if-this-is-copyright-id.html?hpg
1=bn

"The US government seized 77 pirate websites. Copyright law should be
about more than protecting major corporations' profits."

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