[digital-copyright] In the news

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RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 1.
by Greg Sandoval, CNET (blog), March 14, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7q2gn8w

"NEW YORK--The country's largest Internet service providers haven't
given up on the idea of becoming copyright cops. Last July, Comcast,
Cablevision, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable and other bandwidth
providers announced that they had agreed to adopt ..."


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Op-ed: Imminent "six strikes" Copyright Alert System needs antitrust
scrutiny.
By Sean M. Flaim, Ars Technica, March 19, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7xkop8u

"In the proceeding, the content owner is presumed to have both
identified the copyrighted work correctly and correctly identified the
alleged infringer. The burden of proof is on the consumer to prove them
wrong. And the alleged infringer is even ..."

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Copyright Math: a quantitative reasoning master class by Rob Reid.
By Ken Fisher, Ars Technica, March 15, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7554n33

"Rob Reid understands copyright math because he has the compass cuts and
rubber eraser burns of an experienced mathematical optimist grappling
with a five-headed label hydra. "The music industry became a ..."

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Megaupload's short-lived effort to go legit.
By Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7z3d9kc

"Before the feds shut down Megaupload, the file-sharing site accused of
criminal copyright infringement, operators of the company were in talks
with French technology firm UbicMedia about converting online pirates
into legitimate buyers ..."

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Pinterest: Napster for Housewives or Wake Up Call for a Better Copyright
Idea?
By Anthony Wing Kosner, Forbes, March 15, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7k77mns

"Kowalski, a photographer and a lawyer (the perfect combination for
parsing the Pinterest problem) realized that "she and other users were
potentially violating copyright laws by posting content obtained freely
from the Internet."

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Copyrights and Judgment Day
By Jess Collen, Forbes, March 16, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/77r2oc3

"Judgment Day. Two words which conjure up a great sense of uncertainty.
Just like being in court. One of the most memorable moments in my career
came when I was standing in front of a federal judge in a trademark and
copyright infringement case."

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Judge Chooses Pi Day To Reject Lawsuit Over Attempt To Copyright Pi As A
Song.
by Mike Masnick, Techdirt, Mon, March 19, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7temhst

"So he filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement. Blake
successfully had the lawsuit transferred from Nebraska to Portland,
Oregon, and has now succeeded in having the case dismissed, with the
ruling itself issued on March 14 -- Pi Day once again."

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UK Allows US Extradition of Student in File-Sharing Case.
By Nick Clayton, Wall Street Journal (blog), March 14, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/824kgn9

"Richard O'Dwyer, 23, a computer studies student at Hallam University,
Sheffield, UK is accused of breaking copyright laws. The Home
Secretary's decision follows a court ruling last month which rejected
all of Mr O'Dwyer's defense's arguments against ..."


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Whatever Copyrights Righthaven Might Actually Have Owned Now Transferred
To Receiver For Auction.
by Mike Masnick, Techdirt, March 13, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/6qobkde

"As you may recall, Righthaven's domain has already been auctioned off,
but now it appears the copyrights will be too. Of course, this is a bit
tricky, since it's unclear what, if anything, Righthaven actually "owns"
here. Even the company (when it ..."

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Russian labels start copyright war against mobile giants.
RT, March 16, 2012.

http://tinyurl.com/7otne3e

"The problem here is that distributing musical and video content with no
copyright license is a criminal offense, and big companies do not dare
violate this law. However, paying author's royalties for the "public use
of musical content for personal ..."

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