In the News

["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

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Righthaven copyright suits tossed in Colorado, too.
By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, September 28, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/62y9gjz

"In the last year, newspaper copyright troll Righthaven has brought its
dubious lawsuits in two states: Nevada and Colorado. (Update: a lawyer
in South Carolina says Righthaven filed a single case there as well.)
With a new ruling today from a Colorado federal judge overseeing all of
Righthaven's cases there, courts in both states have now told Righthaven
to take a hike-and to pay court costs before it goes."

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Australia to sign copyright treaty this Saturday: ACTA win for the
copyright lobby.
By Liam Tung, iTnews.com.au, September 28, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3re83yf

"Trade representatives from Australia and other participants of the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will meet in Japan on Saturday to
sign the controversial agreement."

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Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal
publishers.
By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation, September 28, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3orpfva

"Prestigious US academic institution Princeton University has banned
researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal
publishers, except in certain cases where a waiver may be granted. The
new rule is part of an Open Access policy aimed at broadening the reach
of their scholarly work and encouraging publishers to adjust standard
contracts that commonly require exclusive copyright as a condition of
publication."

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Press Release: Copyright Clearance Center Partners with cSubs.
MarketWatch.com, September 27, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3wvk2wf

"Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization
and leading provider of licensing solutions, has partnered with cSubs, a
leading provider of subscription, book, newspaper and e-content
management services, to integrate RightsLink Basic, CCC's
point-of-content licensing solution, directly into the cSubs
subscription management workflow."

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The $800M question: What's the difference between trademark and
copyright?
By John Koenig, VentureBeat, September 27, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3ly4qgw

"Confused about the difference between trademark and copyright? Don't
be. It's a mad, mad world, and even Oracle is getting it mixed up, in
its suit against Google."

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Illegal download law fails.
By Chris Gardner, Waikato Times, September 27, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3ucom39

"A new law introducing fines of up to $15,000 for people who illegally
download movies and music from the internet has so far proven
ineffective. Internet usage dropped by about 10 per cent the week the
Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011, aimed at a
practice known as bittorrenting, came into effect on September 1."

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Suing Fans Is Back! But Now, the Fine Is $10...
Digital Music News, September 26, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3rnlq6t

"Is this fair, or just another fraudulent crackdown on fans? Enter
LA-based Digital Rights Corp., a company that has been sending letters
en masse to thousands (and maybe hundreds of thousands) of suspected
infringers, while demanding $10 per infraction.  The payments are
finalized online, and a legal release is automatically generated."

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Press Release: Copyright Board Agrees That Transactional Licences Not
Well Suited to Digital Environment.
MarketWatch, September 26, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/3tzpo8s

"Access Copyright welcomes the Copyright Board's rejection of an attempt
by Canadian universities and colleges to impose a licensing business
model that would almost certainly have led to widespread copyright
infringement and have damaging economic impact on Canada's content
creation industries."

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98% of BitTorrent Users In Copyright Shakedown Filed in Wrong
Jurisdiction.
TorrentFreak.com, September 26, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/62u6m5w

"After a major copyright settlement case featuring The Expendables was
found to be fatally flawed last month, United States Copyright Group and
client Nu Image dropped the case. Now, sidestepping an uncooperative
judge in Columbia, the team are hoping to get more joy from one of his
counterparts in Maryland, but they still haven't learned their lesson.
Tests by TorrentFreak reveal that 98% of 4,165 potential defendants in
the case are being sued in the wrong jurisdiction."

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Copyright: Commission brokers agreement to increase the number of
out-of-commerce books being made available again.
IEWY News, September 24, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/43lslm4

"Every year, hundreds of thousands of new titles enter the European book
market - but only a few turn into real bestsellers. A good number of
them eventually go out of commerce as publishers cannot maintain the
costs of marketing and storing books in print if they do not continue to
sell well. While publishers are bringing more books back into commerce
through e-books and print on demand, many titles still remain in the
collections and archives of Europe's libraries."

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