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["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

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Copyright reform close but no cigar.
By Daryl-lynn Carlson, Vancouver Sun, March 9, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4he62r6

"Canada's pending and long-overdue new copyright legislation has some
flaws that legislators must address, lawyers says. The Canadian Bar
Association has even submitted a formal opposition to several of the
sections in Bill C-32 on behalf of its 37,000-strong membership of
lawyers, law professors and law students. The CBA points out that many
of the flaws in the proposed legislation will impact consumers."

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French Court Orders Google to Pay $598K in Copyright Damages.
By Mark Hefflinger, Digital Media Wire, March 9, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4dw98ph

"A French court has ordered Google (NASD: GOOG) to pay $598000 in
copyright infringement damages to a number of filmmakers and a
photographer, over the appearance of their works in Google's search
results and on Google Video, Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported."

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Lime Wire settles copyright suit with publishers.
By Lance Whitney, CNET, March 9, 2011.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20041101-93.html

"Lime Wire has settled a copyright lawsuit brought against it by several
music publishers. Yesterday's settlement puts to rest the copyright
infringement suit filed in June against Lime Wire by more than 30
different music publishers, including the publishing arms of EMI Group,
Sony, and Vivendi SA. The former file-sharing site and its founder Mark
Gorton were sued last year by a bevy of music publishers and record
companies over charges that the LimeWire service enabled its users to
illegally download copyrighted songs."

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Golan v. Holder: Supreme Court to Review Copyrighting Works in Public
Domain.
By Edward Lee, Huffington Post, March 9, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4segxht

"One of the most valuable lessons I learned as a lawyer I learned from,
of all people, a musician. Richard Kapp  was his name and orchestral
conducting, his lifelong profession and passion. A renowned conductor in
New York and producer of acclaimed recordings of Shostakovich's String
Quartets, Kapp was the first person who volunteered to challenge an
obscure "copyright restoration" law in a case I helped to start while at
the Stanford Center for Internet and Society."

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BMI site latest target of Anonymous DDoS attacks.
By Elinor Mills, CNET, March 9, 2011.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20041218-245.html

The Web site of Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) has been down since last
night after being targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack
launched by the Anonymous hacker group as part of what it calls its "war
on copyright.

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George Lucas taking 'Star Wars' stormtrooper battle to Supreme Court.
NME.com, March 9, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4p7cogk

"Star Wars creator George Lucas has brought his long-running
stormtrooper copyright battle to the UK Supreme Court. Lucas is engaged
in a lengthy dispute with prop-maker Andrew Ainsworth, who built the
original costume from 2D drawings while working at Shepperton Studios in
1977."

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Lady Gaga Demands Photographers Surrender Copyright.
Artistdirect.com, March 8, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/465jho9

"Rolling Stone reports that the oft-photographed Lady Gaga is now
demanding that photographers surrender the copyright of photos taken at
her concerts and that's a practice that pisses off snappers. Photogs
would be required to sign a release form before being granted access to
shoot her."

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Firm sues AP over Times Square bombing images.
Reuters, March 8, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/6bomxg5

"A video company has sued the Associated Press over the copyright to
widely viewed footage of a suspect in the 2008 bombing of a military
recruiting booth in New York's Times Square. Ken Petretti Productions
uses video cameras to monitor billboard advertising for its clients."

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Kanye West Wins in 'Stronger' Copyright Infringement Suit.
By Steven J. Horowitz, The BoomBox, March 7, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/4vly8rg

"Four years after he released the single 'Stronger' off his third album
'Graduation,' Kanye West has triumphed in the track's legal hang-up.
After getting sued by a Virginia man named Vincent Peters for jacking
his original tune, the Chicago rapper walked away scot free from the
case, with an Illinois judge dismissing the suit filed last year."

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Do Australia's piracy numbers add up?
The Age, March 8, 2011.
http://digihub.theage.com.au/node/2021

"The copyright police like to throw around big numbers, but should we
believe them? One in four Aussies illegally downloaded content last
year, costing the industry $900 million and 8000 jobs, according to the
latest report commissioned by the Australian Content Industry Group.
That figure will rise to $5.2 billion by 2016, fueled by the National
Broadband Network."


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Jack Boeve
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Center for Intellectual Property @ UMUC
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jboeve@xxxxxxxx
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