[digital-copyright] CIP Digital News Updates 3/22/13

[Jordan Reth <jordan.reth@xxxxxxxx>]

Everything Wrong with Digital Copyright (And How to Fix It).
By: Kyle Wagner, March 21, 2013, Gizmodo.
http://gizmodo.com/5989166/everything-wrong-with-digital-copyright

Digital copyright is broken. We know this inherently, and wheeze
exasperation whenever the latest nonsensical DRM news up. But fixing it's
not as simple as tossing the whole system out the window. So here's a
breakdown of every way digital copyright has gone wrong, and, with luck and
persistence and prevailing sanity, how it can maybe fix itself.

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Judge: Aggregator of AP news can't have free ride .
By: AP, March 21, 2013, The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP7e07fc00b32f4ba9807a148b3e999867.html

A company that relays excerpts of Internet news articles to its customers
violates copyright laws, a judge said Thursday in a decision that gave The
Associated Press a victory in its attempts to protect its online news
content.

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote rejected claims by Meltwater U.S. Holdings
Inc. and its Meltwater News Service that its use of Web stories plucked
from a scan of 162,000 news websites from more than 190 countries is a fair
use of copyright-protected material.

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Hollywood Studios Score Appeals Court Win In Copyright Case.
By: Dominic Patten, March 21, 2013, Deadline.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/hollywood-studios-score-appeals-court-win-in-
copyright-case/

Hollywood had a big copyright win confirmed today against the website
isoHunt. In a unanimous decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
reaffirmed a 2009 district court ruling that found the BitTorrent site and
its founder Gary Hung induced users to illegally download and pass around
movies and television shows. In an opinion written by Judge Marsha Berzon
(read it here) and released today, the Ninth Circuit declared that Fung and
his company committed inducement because they made no steps to develop
filtering tools or other mechanisms to diminish the infringing activity by
those using his services.

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Grimmelmann: Issues in Kirtsaeng 'Significant'.
By: James Grimmelmann, March 20, 2013, Publisher's Weekly.
http://tinyurl.com/dxpgp4k

Publishers and librarians have been waiting for months with bated breath
for the Supreme Court's decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley and Sons, the
most important first sale case in a century. International publishers will
be using their recovered breath to curse the outcome; librarians will be
using theirs to cheer. The Court voted 6-3 that first sale applies
uniformly, whether books are published in the United States or abroad.

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Supreme Court OKs $222K Verdict for Sharing 24 Songs.
By: David Kravets, March 18, 2013, Wired.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/scotus-jammie-thomas-rasset/

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a jurys conclusion that infamous
file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay the recording industry $222,000 for
downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct
file-sharing service Kazaa.
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Appellate Court Clears Veoh in UMG Copyright Suit.
By: Ted Johnson, March 14, 2013, Variety.
http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/appellate-court-clears-veoh-in-umg-copyr
ight-suit-1200194954/

A federal appellate court said that Veoh Networks is not liable for
copyright infringement on its site despite Universal Music Groups claim
that the video-sharing service was aware that users were frequently posting
pirated music on the platform.

The decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals bolsters protections for
sites that host user-generated content, even as record labels and movie
studios lament that the operators are merely looking the other way and even
profiting from infringing content. A three judge panel upheld an earlier
decision by U.S. District Judge Howard Matz that granted Veoh summary
judgment.


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Library Copyright Alliance Submits Reply Comments to Copyright Office on
Orphan Works.
By: T. Wegner, March 8, 2013, District Dispatch.
http://tinyurl.com/cbhxglq

On March 5, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA, of which the American
Library Association is a member) filed reply comments to the US Copyright
Office in response to the offices October 22, 2012, Notice of Inquiry
about the current state of play with orphan works and mass digitization.

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