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[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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India: A poetic justice for copyright violations.
By Sandhya Soman, The Times of India, Feb 8, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/5vrd8kx

"In every lecture that she delivers, whether in Rome or Bangalore,
professor Mira T Sundara Rajan shows a photo of her great grandfather,
the poet C Subramania Bharati. She shares the image with the audiences
not for sentimental reasons, but to ease them into her pet concern the
importance of copyright."

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White House will propose new digital copyright laws.
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News, February 7, 2011.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030956-281.html

"The Obama administration has drafted new proposals to curb Internet
piracy and other forms of intellectual property infringement that it
says it will send to the U.S. Congress "in the very near future."

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Mardi Gras Indians Work to Copyright Costumes.
By the Associated Press, as reported on NPR, February 7, 2011.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=133571113

"Chief Howard Miller knows cameras will start clicking next month when
his Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians take to the streets with their
elaborately beaded and feathered costumes."

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Righthaven hits white supremacist David Duke with copyright lawsuit.
By Steve Green, The Las Vegas Sun, February 7, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4fqct7b

"David Duke, the nation's best-known white supremacist, is being sued
by Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC."

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EFF to Judge: Watch for Fairness in Mass Copyright Suits.
By Corynne McSherry, EFF,  February 7, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4c5not7

"One of the major problems with the mass copyright lawsuits we seen
over the last year is that the judges hearing the cases often arent
aware of the full legal and practical context of the litigation.
Thats because they are asked to make important decisions (e.g.,
whether to allow the plaintiffs to send out subpoenas for the Does
identities) before any of the defendants have had a chance to point
out the fundamental flaws in the plaintiffs case."

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The tangled web of copyright law.
By Alex Wade, The Guardian, February 7, 2011.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-tech-law/tangled-web-of-copyright-law

"If it's online, it's free  right? After all, this isn't just a brave
new world, it's one where the embrace of the web 2.0 zeitgeist of
share and share alike is complete. Haven't all of us, a decade into
the 21st century, now accepted that the internet's disregard for
conventional ownership laws is good for the bottom line?"

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