1. Copyright Lawsuit Against PornoTube Withdrawn
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...e clone PornoTube.com won’t have to bare it all in court, after all: Porn powerhouse Vivid dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against PornoTube owner Data Conversions Inc., also known as...

2. New German anti-piracy plan: Three strikes and you're ... slow?
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...g to ignore these warning letters would get banned permanently from the Internet after the third incident of copyright infringement. These ideas have drawn lots of criticism from politicians and civi...

3. Music publishers say Kazaa deal reached
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...publishing industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement, an industry group said. Publishers pursuing a class-action suit ag...

4. Aussie busted for "Simpsons Movie" piracy
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... man who allegedly used his cell phone to record the movie at a cinema. The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) said Friday that a 21-year-old man from Sydney, the country's ...

5. Spain outlaws P2P Networks
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...ot; and imposes a blanket tax on blank media. "The tax will go into a fund which will be shared among copyright holders to compensate for piracy." But, the story goes on, according to a E...

6. Hollywood on The Hill
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...suaded by the proposal, however, warning in the Ministerial briefing note that the penalty provisions in the Copyright Act are already criminal offences and that "it is unclear how these measures...

7. Man Charged With Putting TV Show He Found On The Web... On The Web?
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Apparently federal authorities are charging a man in Chicago with copyright violations for uploading copies of Fox's TV show "24" to the web. There are a few things that don't make s

8. How to do File Sharing Without Fear?
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... folks. Why can't it happen to you? You may or may not agree with what the law says about sharing copyrighted files -- in essence, that it's illegal to share them with, or download the...

9. University ignores RIAA blackmail
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...ss the US by the Big 4 music cartel's RIAA. The University of Wisconsin says it won't be a Big 4 copyright cop, or act as their runner in extorting 'settlement' money from students...

10. Woman sues WayBack Machine
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... commenced this lawsuit, seeking a declaratory judgment that its activities did not infringe Shell's copyright. Shell, proceeding pro se, counterclaimed, asserting that Internet Archive'...

11. P2P: Open your Eyes! Here comes a new law.
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...roduced today by Rick Boucher (right) and John Doolittle. "Fair use protection is a part of the Copyright Act," says HRRC chairman Gary Shapiro. "It is meant to be developed on...

12. Companies using piracy techniques against Filesharers
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...nst Swedish ISP Bahnhof, only to be presented with evidence that APB themselves had hired someone to plant copyright material. APB are well known (and most hated) for their activities in working to...

13. RIAA Threatens Open Wi-Fi
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Debbie Foster, an american citizen, was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network.  However, the alleged infringement was

14. Are Compulsory Licenses a Solution to the P2P Debate?
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...ution as a flat-rate license to a collection agency, functioning in a similar way to ASCAP or the Mechanical Copyright Protection Agency (MCPS) and distributing the levies to artists as royalties. But...

15. Google accused of aiding movie pirates
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... on the allegations: "We prohibit advertisers from using our advertising program to promote the sale of copyright infringing materials. We are continually improving our systems to screen out ads ...

16. Beat the Viacom Dragnet
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...wns? Hundreds? Thousands? If Viacom made a clear mistake and your clip contains no content from Viacom-owned copyrighted works, sending a simple DMCA counter-notice to YouTube may be enough to do the ...

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