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• Steal This Preso! Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom

  
  K12 Online Conference 2009 — Authority: 139
  Presenter : Mathew Needleman Location : Culver City, California, USA Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page Presentation Title : Steal This Preso! Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom Presentation Description : Myths and realities of copyrights as they relate to multimedia projects in ...
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• Sony BMG Music Entertainment et al. v. Tannenbaum

  
  JOLT Digest — Authority: 117
  First Circuit Explains Judgment Against File-Sharer Tannenbaum By Eric Engle  – Edited by Miriam Weiler Sony BMG Music Entertainment et al. v. Tannenbaum, Case No. 07cv11446-NG (Dist. Mass., Dec. 7, 2009) Memorandum and Order The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts elaborated on its July 27 ...
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• Capitol Records Sues Vimeo Over "Lip Dub" Videos

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 547
  Los Angeles - Major record label EMIs Capitol Records has filed a copyright infringementsuit against video-sharing site Vimeo, a unit of IAC (NASD: IACI) , alleging that the companyis actively encouraging users to upload copyrighted works, specifically in theform of fan-created lip sync videos to popular songs, ...
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• A 21st Century Family Library

  
  Cryptosmith — Authority: 106
  Over the years, our family has bought three copies of the Crosby, Stills & Nash album. My wife and I each bought a vinyl copy back in the ’70s. Recently we bought a “clean” (not copy protected) copy from the iTunes music store. I expect that’s the last time anyone in our family will have [...]
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• Global Geek News Podcast #48

  
  Global Geek News — Authority: 106
  &t; html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?8:26981) no-repeat top left; } Share on Facebook Here are the shownotes for episode #48 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Global Geek News #48 Podcast Feed: ...
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• Chuck DeVore again tests limits of fair use in campaign videos with Austin Powers clip

  
  Copyrights & Campaigns — Authority: 455
  Thought Don Henleys lawsuit against California state Assemblyman and U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore (R) would deter him from continuing to incorporate third-party copyrighted content into his campaign material? Not so much. DeVore has released a new video mocking his opponent, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D). And the ...
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• “Twenty-Something Arrested at Twilight Movie” or “State Law Copyright Enforcement?”

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 521
  by Jason FischerEarlier this month, 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach was arrested exiting a showing of the new douchey-little-vampire-kid movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.  No, she wasn’t detained for a psych eval, as anyone over the age of 16 should be for watching that movie.  (The only problem with implementing ...
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• Bratz, foiled again!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 135
  Remember the Bratz dolls case, and the phenomenal legal fees application that followed?It’s back!   The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the trial judge’s order basically liquidating the Bratz.  Here’s what the WSJ Law Blog reported last week:The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that Bratz maker MGA ...
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• Record labels sue Vimeo, claim social network encourages infringement

  
  The Hollywood Reporter | Esq. | Entertainment and Media Law — Authority: 644
  By Eriq Gardner Get ready for the next major lawsuit in the ongoing copyright wars. Capitol Records, Caroline Records and Virgin Records America have filed a massive copyright infringement complaint against Vimeo, a social networking website for filmmakers owned by...
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• Dont Sing-a-long: Capitol v Vimeo re Lip Dub Videos

  
  The Trademark Blog — Authority: 122
  Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo . Vimeo is a video-sharing site (owned by InterActive Corp). It apparently hosts many videos consisting of lip dubs, like the one above actually performed by the Vimeo staff. Plaintiff record labels allege that Vimeo is no so-called video ...
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• When is Music Copyright Clear?

  
  Video News — Authority: 126
  When is Music Copyright Clear? Legal questions and answers from our legal expert.
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• Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupes Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 690
  Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had published in The Wall Street Journal, which was focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp. ...
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• Worlds Fair Use Day

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 132
  January 11, 2010 - 7:00pm - January 12, 2010 - 6:00pm World’s Fair Use Day (WFUD) is a free, all-day celebration of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. At WFUD, we’ll highlight new and innovative uses of ...
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• MPAA: Still No Reason to Break TVs, DVD Copy Protection Does Not Stop Copying

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 132
  As devotees of our hit video series Five Minutes with Harold Feld (or as the cool kids call it “5MWHF”) will no doubt recall, on the eve of Thanksgiving MPAA dropped a lengthy filing into the Selectable Output Control (SOC) docket. Among other things, it called Harold a liar. Harold immediately took five ...
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• Liberty Conspiracy – 12-10-09 Basics vol 2 – Intellectual Property pt 2 of 2

  
  Homeland Stupidity — Authority: 470
  In this second part of our investigation of how government law concerning intellectual property harms living standards and infringes on liberty, Gardner Goldsmith is joined by Furb, founder of The Freedom Book Club . We hope you find the thought experiments interesting, and that you will spread the word about the ...
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• Public Knowledge Sponsors First World’s Fair Use Day

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 438
  Public Knowledge is sponsoring what looks like an amazing event , to be held on January 12th next year. “World’s Fair Use Day will shine a spotlight on how crucial fair use is to our culture, our democracy and our economy,” Sohn said. “It is important for people to realize that it is not always illegal to ...
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• Public Knowledge Announces First Annual Worlds Fair Use Day (WFUD)

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 132
  We at Public Knowledge are thrilled to announce the first annual Worlds Fair Use Day (WFUD) , a day-long celebration of creativity, innovation and remix culture to be held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on January 12th, 2010. Fair use is the legal right that allows creators to make limited uses of copyrighted ...
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• Public Knowledge Sponsors First Worlds Fair Use Day

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 132
  For Immediate Release:  December 9, 2009 Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn announced that the organization will sponsor the first World’s Fair Use Day on Jan. 12, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The event will be an all-day celebration of the doctrine ...
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• What wasn’t decided

  
  Scholarly Communications @ Duke — Authority: 111
  Sometimes what a court does not decide can be more important than the actual ruling that the court makes.  One newsworthy example of this possibility is the extraordinary step taken by the judge in the file-sharing case of Joel Tenenbaum.  As this opinion piece from Ars Technica reports, Judge Nancy Gertner has ...
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• File-Swapper to Pay Labels $675K; Will Seek New Trial

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 547
  Boston - A federal judge has ordered grad student Joel Tenenbaum,found guilty of copyright infringement for file-sharing, to pay a total of$675,000 in compensation to the major record labels, and destroy the 30 songshe downloaded illegally, but stopped short of the labels demands that he cease"promoting" ...
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