In the News

["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

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Is it time for term limits for the Copyright Office's Register?
By Matthew Lassar, Ars Technica, December 7, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2a4vcwg

"Another argument for term limits surfaced on Capitol Hill on Monday.
This proposal isn't for elected officials or judges, but for the
Register of the United States Copyright Office, which catalogs and keeps
track of copyrighted materials. In a new report on agency, Public
Knowledge says the Office's boss should not be allowed to serve for more
than a decade."

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US Copyright Group Reduces P2P Lawsuits to Just 140.
By Jared Moya, ZeroPaid.net, December 7, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2b6c228

"The US Copyright Group has submitted its revised list of BitTorrent
users it plans to sue as ordered late last month by U.S. District Judge
Rosemary Collyer. She gave the USCG until December 6th to identify the
Defendants it plans to sue, this time including only those 'whom it
reasonably believes the Court has personal jurisdiction' over."

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Government's Criminal Copyright Case Falls Apart.
By Joe Mullin, Paid Content, December 6, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/33betzt

"Federal prosecutors' first attempt to press criminal charges for
circumventing copy protections has ended badly for the government, which
could make it less likely to bring some types of criminal copyright
cases in the future. Wired News reported that government prosecutors
dismissed their case against Matthew Crippen, who was accused of
modifying Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Xbox consoles for $60 to $80."

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US Copyright Czar: Expect More Domain Censorship.
By Masnick, Techdirt, December 6, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/38gevjg

"The US 'IP Czar,' Victoria Espinel, said at a conference this week that
Homeland Security's seizure of a bunch of domain names was apparently
just the beginning of a larger plan to go after such folks. Espinel has
been making the rounds over the past few months, working to get various
companies to voluntarily start censoring websites in this manner, even
without the COICA bill being in place."

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Viacom replays copyright claims in YouTube appeal.
The Courier-News, December 5, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/2uo4bx4

"Viacom Inc. is seeking to overturn a court decision that dismissed its
claims of copyright abuse against YouTube even though the Internet video
site used to show thousands of pirated clips."

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Canada: Don't care about copyright? You should.
By Barry McKenna, The Globe and Mail, December 5, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3a3dbnc

"The last time Ottawa updated its copyright laws, only about a third of
Canadians had a home computer. Even fewer used the Internet. The iPod
didn't exist. And so, for the past five years, successive Liberal and
Conservative governments have tried to reconcile Canada's yellowing
copyright law with a digital world."

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