In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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RIAA Lawyer to Replace Kagan as Solicitor General.
By Jack Korba, American University Intellectual Property Brief,
January 26, 2011.
http://www.ipbrief.net/2011/01/26/riaa-lawyer-to-replace-kagan-as-solicitor-g
eneral/

"President Obama has nominated Donald Verrilli to fill the post of
Solicitor General, a position formerly held by Elena Kagan before she
joined the Supreme Court.  Verrilli, who is best known for his legal
victory over file-sharing network Grokster at the Supreme Court level,
is a former copyright lawyer currently serving as an associate White
House counsel."

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German Mass Copyright Letter Sender Using Debt Collectors To Pressure
People To Pay Up.
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, January 25, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/49z9zqs

"We've seen the various mass copyright infringement factories popping
up all over the world, often using similar strategies: suing or
threatening to sue thousands of individuals based solely on an IP
address. The whole "business model" is based not on traditional
copyright infringement statutory awards, but on convincing people to
pay up beforehand to avoid being sued."

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Lawyers Versus Geeks In Android Copyright Spat.
By Matt Rosaoff, San Francisco Chronicle. January 21, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4m6hup8

"Earlier today, we published a story based on a blog post from
intellectual property lawyer Florian Mueller, who said he'd found
evidence that somebody had taken a bunch of files from Java, changed
the license on them, and put them into an Android source code
repository using the new license."

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Music industry working on global copyright database.
By Kate Holton, Reuters, January 21, 2011.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70K56420110121

"The music industry is working to create a global repertoire database
to make it easier and faster for new online music services to come to
market."

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Copyright vs. Ownership: The Right to Jailbreak.
By Kirk Sigmond, The Cornell Daily Sun, January 21, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4rajeas

"The infamous hacker George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, has been sued by
Sony of America for publishing tools and information which can be
utilized to jailbreak (override the software limitations of) the
PlayStation 3 video game console."

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EFF lambastes Sony over PS3 cracking suit.
By Tom Magrino. Game Spot, January 21, 2011.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6286809.html

"Early this year, iPhone jailbreaker George Hotz and a hacking group
known as fail0verflow successfully defeated Sony's security measures
for the PlayStation 3, making it possible for people to install and
run unauthorized software on the system, from homebrew applications to
pirated games and custom firmware. The news was not met kindly by
Sony, which promptly filed a lawsuit again Hotz and multiple members
of the fail0verflow contingent."

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