In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Internet file sharing bill passes second reading under urgency.
By Chris Keall and Alex Walls, National Business Review, April 13, 2011.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/internet-file-sharing-bill-under-urgency-ck-9075
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"The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill  has passed
its second reading 111 to 11, with the Greens and independent MPs Hone
Harawira and Chris Carter voting against the legislation."

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Reluctantly, Baidu refreshes copyright stance.
By Wang Jing, Wuhong Yuran and Wang Shanshan, Wall Street Journal,
April 12, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3u7s9x5

"The day after Baidu became Chinas largest Internet company by market
value in late March, copyright talks between the giant search engine
and a group of publishers and writers, including famous authors,
suddenly collapsed."

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How Copyright Law Hurts Music, From Chuck D to Girl Talk.
By Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, April 12, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3vhmk6f

"Last year, when novelist David Shields released Reality Hungera
wholly borrowed novel that strung together passages from other
textshe received accolades from the literary establishment. Compare
this to the reception of Danger Mouse's The Grey Album: The infamous
record, which was spliced together from the Beatles' White Album and
Jay-Z's Black Album, couldn't be commercially released without
inviting multimillion dollar lawsuits."

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Australia: We can combat internet piracy, but it won't be easy.
By John Lambrick, Sydney Morning Herlad, April 12, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3qdbgwd

"If you download next week's episode of Survivor using a filesharing
application such as BitTorrent you have have breached copyright and
could be successfully sued by the owner of the copyright.  But should
your internet service provider (ISP) be liable as well?"

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Who Owns The Copyright On A Tattoo?
By Mike Masnick, Techdirt, April 12, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/6ctu9yr

"Here's a fun hypothetical concerning copyright and tattoos: My
question is this, if a tattoo artist creates a unique design for a
client, then this is tattooed on to the aforementioned client, does
the tattoo artist still own any intellectual property rights (namely
copyright) over this piece of art?"

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Judge to copyright troll: your "business model" isn't my problem.
By Nate Andersen, Ars Technica, April 12, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/694rrtc

"Ars Technica freelancer Eriq Gardner was recently sued over a photo
that appeared in a piece he wrote for us last year. The flimsy lawsuit
was quickly dismissed, but the company behind it lives onand has sued
50+ people in Colorado for their use of the same photo. Now, the
federal judge overseeing all these cases has made it clear that he
sees through the company's "lawsuit as revenue generation" strategy,
and that he's not interested in enabling it. Righthaven is already
backing down."

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