In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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New Zealand: Oppose ISP copyright liability in free-trade agreement -
NZ professor.
By Stephen Bell, Computer World NZ, January 19, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/46uy22j

"The University of Aucklands Professor Jane Kelsey, a noted
commentator on free trade, is apprehensive that US negotiators at the
Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement (TPP) talks, backed by
powerful entertainment-industry lobbies, will want to return to the
question of internet service provider liability for customers
copyright breaches through downloading or uploading."

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Copyright lawyers hit the bulletin boards.
By Nick Farrell, Techeye.net, January 18, 2010.
http://www.techeye.net/internet/copyright-lawyers-hit-the-bulletin-boards

"Legal copyright outfit Righthaven acting on behalf of the US
newspaper industry is trying to stop people talking about the news on
bulletin boards."

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Cuba Accuses Google's YouTube of Censorship.
By Bryan Llenas, FOX News Latino, January 17, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/5upscdf

"Cuba's state-run online site, Cubadebate.cu, is denouncing YouTube
for closing its accounts over copyright infringement."

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China pledges tougher fight on online piracy.
AFP, January 17, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/675gx6o

"China will step up its fight to protect intellectual property rights
(IPR) by targeting online piracy, state media said Monday, amid calls
for Beijing to do more on widespread copyright infringement."

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Australia: Copyright in medical records: where is the "independent
intellectual effort"?
By Mary Still, Clayton UTZ, January 17, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/6xqjrku

"Australian courts have been emphasising the importance of
"independent intellectual effort" in copyright cases recently, and
Primary Health Care Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2010] FCA 419 is
another in this trend."

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Canada: Copyright Fees Put on Hold for... now.
By Sarah Petz, Macleans.ca, January 16, 2010.
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2011/01/16/battle-over-copyright-fees-p
ut-on-hold-for-now/

"Post secondary institutions have been bought some time in the battle
over copyright fees with Access Copyright, the collective that
licenses copying and course packs for most universities across
Canada."

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