In the News

[Amy Mata <amymata87@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Australia: Content owners don't back AFACT: iiNet.
By Josh Taylor, ZD Net, June 2, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3ugcgxy

"Content providers are stepping away from the Australian Federation
Against Copyright Theft (AFACT)'s pursuit of ISPs over copyright
infringement, and are open to iiNet's piracy mediator model, according
to iiNet's chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby."

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Alki David Copyright Suit Against CNET Has Only One Movie, Five Songs.
By Joe Mullen, Paid Content, June 1, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3q4x7qc

"FilmOn founder Alki Davids copyright lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS)
and CNET may be getting cut down to sizea not-very-big size. The
judge overseeing the case asked David and his co-plaintiffs to come up
with a list of their artistic works that they say were infringed
because CNET distributed Limewire file-sharing software."

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Google, Publishers Seek More Time to Reach Book-Scan Accord.
By Patricia Hurtado and Don Jeffrey, Bloomberg, Jun 1, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3ttdzwz

"Google Inc. (GOOG) and a group of publishers and authors told a
federal judge they are discussing options toward a possible settlement
of a book-scanning lawsuit against Google and asked for 60 days to
continue talks."

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Russian Pres Questions G8 Support for Outdated Copyright Laws.
By Jared Moya, Zero Paid, June 1, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3l9pe6x

"Many were written 50 or almost 100 years ago, and are largely
unable to regulate complex relationship between copyright holders
and users. Wonders if its because maybe they just dont use the
Internet and have little understanding of it.

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Pallente Appointed Permanent Head of Copyright Office.
By Jonathan Charnitski, Broadband Breakfast, June 1, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3nednp9

"Librarian of Congress James Billington made permanent the appointment
of Maria Pallante to the top post at the U.S. Copyright Office, where
she has served as Acting Register of Copyrights since the beginning of
the year."

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Google's YouTube policy for Android users is copyright extremism.
By Cory Doctorow, The Guardian, May 31, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/42tka49

"The news that Android users who have jailbroken their phones will be
denied access to the new commercial YouTube pay-per-view service is as
neat an example of copyright extremism as you could hope for."

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