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• Targeted Copyright Enforcement: Deterring Many Users with a Few Lawsuits

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Targeted Copyright Enforcement: Deterring Many Users with a Few Lawsuits : Via Freedom to Tinker . One reason the record industrys strategy of suing online infringers ran into trouble is that there are too many infringers to sue. If the industry can only sue a tiny fraction of infringers, then any individual ...
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• The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the “Internet provisions” in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn’t take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the ...
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• Managed Copy Enabled Blu-Rays Coming Soon

  
  ModCool — Authority: 456
  The first Managed Copy enabled Blu-Ray disks will be hitting store shelves soon, unfortunately, it will be well ahead of any hardware that can make use of it . For those that haven’t heard of Managed Copy, it is a system that allows you to make legal copies of Blu-Ray disks, but spawned versions of the content ...
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• EFF to have panel forum on the future of DVDs

  
  Bill Boushka — Authority: 125
  Although I’m still on the East Coast and cannot attend this, I’m paying more attention to goings on elsewhere, as my future could well hit the road again at some point. Here’s an important event: Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Future of DVD Panel and Happy Hour” on Monday November 9 in San Francisco ...
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• Scribd moves to strike class allegations from copyright suit; warns of potential for horrendous, possibly annihilating punishment

  
  Copyrights & Campaigns — Authority: 621
  Scribd.com , the document storage site sued for copyright infringement by an author who alleged that her book was uploaded and displayed without her permission, has responded to the complaint, filing an answer and moving to strike the class allegations or, in the alternative, deny class certification. Motion to ...
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• Emerald DMCA’s NeilLife

  
  iheartsl.com — Authority: 173
  GO GO GADGET EMERALD! We just submitted a copyright violation claim to Google regarding a “neillife” viewer blog. This is one of several clients that have been brought to our attention that are in violation of our copyright. We intend to file similar claims at our discretion against any derivatives of our work ...
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• Music Attorney Tamera H. Bennett To Speak On Music Piracy Panel

  
  Current Trends in Copyright, Trademark & Entertainment Law — Authority: 108
  posted November 6, 2009 Texas based music lawyer Tamera H. Bennett will join music industry veterans, James Griffen , Kim Guggenheim , Jim Hillegass , Andrew Schuon , and Owen J. Sloane, Jr. , in Beverly Hills on November 19 to discuss “The Music Industry’s Response to Piracy:  Intervention or ...
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• BlueBeat Forced to Stop Selling Beatles’ Catalog

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 481
  A California company called BlueBeat has been selling MP3 tracks for 25 cents each and streaming them for free. Online music retail is pretty much old news, though the price point is low enough to attract attention. But as Macworld’s Jonathan Seff wrote , the site is also selling the Beatles’ catalog — ...
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• PerfectPitch Owner Apologizes For DMCA Notice, Explains What Happened [Follow Ups]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  Gary Boucherle, the owner of the website and product PerfectPitch, sent us an explanation of why he got Google to remove links to mentions of his product on another persons blog. The short version: Jeremy Keiths blog was accidentally lumped into a list of blogs being reported to Google for mentioning pirate copies ...
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• Advocates Renew Calls for Transparency in ACTA process

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Advocates Renew Calls for Transparency in ACTA process : Via CDT - PolicyBeta . CDT and other advocates sent a letter to President Obama today once again urging greater transparency as the US negotiates a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ). While the administration has permitted some advocates ...
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• PerfectPitch Uses DMCA To Get Product Mentions Removed From Google [Copyfraud]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  Heres another example of a company misusing the law to try to hide or remove third-party commentary about its services. This time its a website called PerfectPitch.com , and its owner Gary Boucherle of American Educational Music, Inc. apparently doesnt like it when anyone talks about the product without his ...
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• Finnishing What the Finns Started: EU to Adopt a “Right” to Broadband

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 593
  IDG News reports that the European Parliament has negotiated a telecom bill that “now contains a new Internet freedom provision that states that access to the Internet is a human right of every E.U. citizen, and that if authorities take away that right people must have the opportunity to defend themselves.” If ...
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• Internet Copyright Leaks, Transparency with Obama in The New World Order

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations continue in a few hours as Seoul, Korea plays host to the latest round of talks.  The governments have posted the meeting agenda , which unsurprisingly focuses on the issue of Internet enforcement [UPDATE 11/4: Post on discussions for day two of ACTA talks , ...
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• The Democrats’ continuing war on the Internet

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  The last time a Democrat was in the White House we got the Communications Decency Act (since thrown out by the Supreme Court) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (still a weight on the neck of American innovators). This time we’re not only seeing “Net Neutrality” being used as cover for sweeping proposed ...
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• Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently leaked document showing the United States trying to push its controversial DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process on the world. But since Threat Level already lives in the land of the DMCA, we’re more bothered by the fact that the U.S. proposal goes far beyond that 1998 ...
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• Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 158
  The leaks confirm everything that we feared about the secret ACTA negotiations..including obligations on ISPs to adopt Three Strikes Internet disconnection policies, and a global expansion of DMCA-style TPM laws.act
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• Draft Fair Syndication Guidelines Unveiled

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 467
  In late October, while I was on hiatus for my haunted house , the Fair Syndication Consortium unveiled a 0.9 version of its guidelines (PDF). The Consortium ( previous coverage ) hopes to turn unauthorized usage into a profit center for content creators. The idea is that, by working with advertising networks, ...
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• 3 Count: ACTing Up

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 467
  Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together First off today, details about the controversial and secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty ACTA have been leaked and and advocates of copyright reform are not pleased. ...
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• DMCA: Is It a Muzzle or Security?

  
  FreelanceSwitch — Authority: 564
  Since the advent of the Internet as a wide-open information conduit there has been a lot of worry amongst legislators, media corporations, and others with a stake in preventing content piracy to create a law that would add teeth to copyright for electronic communications. The long discussions, lobbying, and heated ...
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• ACTA Negotiations, Day Two: Whats On Tap

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 729
  As ACTA negotiators head into day two of the Seoul, Korea meetings, the global response to the Internet provisions in the chapter (the issue from day one) has been remarkable.  Articles and postings from around the world ( Germany , Italy , Sweden , UK , New Zealand , the Netherlands , U.S. ,  Germany , ...
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