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["Tamiru Degefe" <TDegefe@xxxxxxxx>]

SOPA, PIPA: What you need to know.
By Stephanie Condon, Political Hot sheet, January 18, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7xkz98m
"Having trouble using Wikipedia today? That's because the popular
crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an "Internet blackout"
in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA)."
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Google, Wikipedia and others protest SOPA / PIPA.
By Darren Murph, engadget, January 18, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7989rae
"At this point, SOPA needs no introduction. But if you've been diligently
ignoring it up until this point, good luck getting through January 18th as an
uninformed citizen. Google, Wikipedia and a host of other websites are either
going dark or making huge, unmistakable statements on their homepages in
protest."
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Rubio: On second thought, SOPA/PIPA's a bad idea.
By Ed Morrissey, Hot air, January 18, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/7jdj26z
"The SOPA/PIPA Internet blackout has delivered a message to at least one
elected official in Washington, DC."
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Apple, Danisco, Cypress, Google: Intellectual Property.
By Victoria Slind-Flor, Bloomberg, January 18, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/738besd
"Apple Inc. (AAPL) filed a lawsuit in Germany seeking to ban sales of Samsung
Electronics (005930) Co.'s smartphone models, including the Galaxy S Plus and
the S II."
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Pioneering role in intellectual property protection.
By Zhang Zhao, China Daily, January 18, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/6p2ej7b

"Suzhou Industry Park (SIP) is making headway with the construction of a
national pilot zone for intellectual property protection. Companies are
expected to attach greater importance to IP protection and management."
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SOPA PIPA Blackout: Google Slows Down Web Crawler ...
By Melanie Jones, International Business Times, January 18, 2012,

http://tinyurl.com/7n8ggzs

"Google won't be an integral part of the coordinated blackout to protest SOPA
and PIPA, but it's doing its part to support allies like Wikipedia and
Reddit."

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Blog: Sony Sued Over Karaoke Music Copyright Infringement Claims ...
By Milord A. Keshishian, Los Angeles Intellectual Property Trademark, January
9, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/76geqpm

"KTS Karaoke is suing Sony/ATV Music Publishing for declaratory relief of
copyright non-infringement and/or reduction of the damages amount at issue,
which Sony claims is almost $1.3 billion."

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Tamiru Degefe,
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