[digital-copyright] CIP Legal Updates 3/15/13

[Jordan Reth <jordan.reth@xxxxxxxx>]

Digital-Copyright List Serv - CIP Legal Updates 3/15/13
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HC Impleads Students in Copyright Case.
By: the Asian Age, March 14, 2013.
http://www.asianage.com/delhi/hc-impleads-students-copyright-case-936

"In an ongoing case in the Delhi high court, where a consortium of
publishers, namely Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and
Taylor & Francis Group, filed a suit against Delhi University and M/S
Rameshwari Photocopier (the licensed photocopy shop at Delhi School of
Economics) alleging copyright infringement, the plea for impleadment filed
by the Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge (ASEAK) in
the lawsuit was accepted by the court recently."
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African Political and Business Leaders Focus on Intellectual Property at
UN-Backed Forum.
By: AllAfrica, March 12, 2013.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201303121462.html

"Using intellectual property - such as patents, trademarks and copyrights -
to support African innovation and identity is among the topics discussed
today at two major conferences organized by the United Nations World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Ministers for science and technology from approximately 20 countries,
research and development institutions and entrepreneurs are joining WIPO,
the Japan Patent Office and the Government of Tanzania to see how
intellectual property (IP) can be used to promote innovation and
creativity."
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Copyright Alert System Cracking Down on Illegal Downloading.
By: Emily Donovan, The University Daily Kansan, March 12, 2013.
http://kansan.com/news/2013/03/12/copyright-alert-system-cracking-down-on-illegal-downloading/

"AT&T, Cablevision, Time Warner, Verizon and Comcast are taking long
awaited measures to address entertainment copyright infringement. Online
piracy now faces a battle with the Copyright Alert System, developed by
internet service providers and copyright holders such as the Motion Picture
Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and
the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.

The Copyright Alert System will standardize sanctions, representing a major
step taken against the illegal downloading of entertainment.

Anyone caught illegally downloading will receive six warnings. Thereafter,
ISPs will enact mitigation measures."
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Museums Will Have to Pay for Orphan Works, Government Confirms (UK).
By: BBC, March 11, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-21747484

"The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, which was debated for a fourth
day at report stage on 11 March 2013, contains measures that would require
holders of orphan works to pay for their copyright licensing upfront.

Labour's Lord Howarth of Newport, a former culture minister, welcomed the
government's drive to make such material more accessible, saying they were
often 'underused and under-celebrated.'

But he added that paying for all orphan works in advance, whether an owner
can be found or not, 'doesn't make sense.'"
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HathiTrust:  An Author Never Forgets.
By: Rachel Premack, the Michigan Daily, Feb. 18, 2013.
http://www.michigandaily.com/article/hathitrust

"The Authors Guild filed a federal copyright infringement suit in September
2011 against HathiTrust. In October 2012, Federal District Court Judge
Harold Baer ruled against AG, which is currently devising an appeal. Baer
wrote in his ruling that digitization was a transformative act, or one that
does not infringe upon copyright.

'I cannot imagine a definition of fair use that would ... terminate this
invaluable contribution to the progress of science and cultivation of the
arts ' Baer wrote in the decision. He defined 'fair use' as copyrighted
material that benefits the public in 'scholarship, teaching and research.'"
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S.350 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013
(proposed).
Introducted by: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), U.S. Senate, Feb. 14, 2013.
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/350/text

"To provide for Federal agencies to develop public access policies relating
to research conducted by employees of that agency or from funds
administered by that agency."
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