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• Kindle DRM Hacked – The War Begins

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 577
  As I said just earlier today, it is a major problem, in my opinion, that content purchased cannot be removed from these e-readers and stored, as they otherwise fill with content. It was only a matter of time before someone hacked the DRM scheme, and no matter what the legal situation may be, I must applaud the ...
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• Best of 2009: “Adverference?”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 134
  This was originally published on January 22, 2009:Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured out what was going on with banner ads on my Internet browsing. It raises an interesting question about Internet-related copyright and trademark law.We use a ...
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• Morphing breaks copyright?

  
  Shopping Cart Disco — Authority: 134
  ‘Morph’ photography has become more and more popular in SL, and although I personally find them hideous and creepy as hell, everyone has their personal taste and who am I to question that?  People morph images/blend images all the time, nothing wrong with that, using various backdrops, models and finishing ...
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• AP Article Highlights Christian-Themed Trademark "Parodies"

  
  Seattle Trademark Lawyer — Authority: 419
  From Abercrombie & Fitch to “Abreadcrumb & Fish”? One Christian marketing consultant calls it “Jesus junk.” It’s  Christianizing a famous logo — Taking IPOD and turning it into IPRAY. It’s really called trademark infringement and trademark dilution. It’s not parody, which protects a ...
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• Cover banned?

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 134
  Now this is an interesting twist on IP rights and wrongs.  It’s interesting, though, more as a sign of the desperation of the dead-tree media to raise cash — even at the expense of relationships with the hands that feed it — than in terms of any particularly new legal ground being plowed here.  I [...]
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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: 116
  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: 534
  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: 109
  &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: 457
  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: 525
  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: 134
  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: 631
  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: 124
  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: 127
  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: 495
  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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