Bush Aide Resigns Over Plagiarism - washingtonpost.com
An aide to President Bush responsible for outreach to conservative and Christian groups resigned Friday after acknowledging that he had plagiarized material for a column he wrote for his hometown paper in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Artist managers are girding for battle with their music overlords over when their clients are going to see some of the dough negotiated last year in copyright-infringement settlements with a host of Web sites.
Tennessee legislation would turn schools into copyright cops
A new bill proposed in the Tennessee state senate aims to reduce copyright infringement at universities by forcing the schools to become antipiracy enforcers. If passed, the bill would require universities that receive funding from the state to analyze all traffic passing through their networks in order to track down and stop infringing activity.
The Associated Press: Baidu Sued Over Music Copyrights
China's top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said.
FOO FIGHTERS - FOO FIGHTERS SUE MARVEL
The FOO FIGHTERS are suing Marvel Studios for using two of their songs in an X-MEN TV show without permission.
p2pnet.net - not the lamescream media » Blog Archive » Judge nails RIAA ‘making available’ claim
Connecticut district judge Janet Bond Arterton has thrown out the RIAA’s infamous “making available” claim which comprises the bottom line for all the Big 4 P2P file sharing cases.
Law on the Row: Atlantic Records et al. v. Brennan: Federal Judge Denies Default Judgment for RIAA
U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut Justice Janet Bond Arterton, handed down a very pointed and decisive opinion hammering the RIAAR.I.A.A. for its boilerplate style of pleading in the nationwide wide campaign against illegal file sharing.
The RIAA has dropped its case against Chicagoan Paul Wilke, with the two parties moving to dismiss the case with prejudice in federal court late last week. Elektra v. Wilke was noteworthy in that the defendant vigorously contested all of the RIAA's allegations, moving for summary judgment against the record label last month.
SFGate: Daily Dish : Seinfeld Moves To Dismiss Plagiarism Lawsuit
But Seinfeld has now apologized for his comments and appealed to a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, according to the New York Daily News.
Comcast F.C.C. Hearing Strategy - Portfolio.com
One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday—and effectively keep some of its opponents out of the room.
Copyright this - Los Angeles Times
Jon Healey correctly points out that the debate over intellectual-property theft is complex because we are often dealing with "non-real properties." These properties cost nearly nothing to produce, and an infinite number of people can use the same property at the same time. And yet, we still want to treat them as if they were "real" property.
Music exec: "Music 1.0 is dead."
Five hundred top members of the music business gathered today in New York to hear that "music 1.0 is dead."
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Swedish Record Labels See Filesharing as Virtue | TorrentFreak
While the RIAA sues its customers, and blames filesharing for the decrease in record sales, a coalition of seven independent Swedish record labels explores alternatives that make use of the Internet and filesharing technology.
Scots want to copyright the kilt | NEWS.com.au
THE same special copyright protections given to champagne from France and parmesan cheese from Italy could soon apply to the traditional Scottish kilt.
ipilogue » Blog Archive » The Battle over the Rights to “Zombies in a Mall”
The immediate copyright issue is whether MKR holds the right to the “zombies-in-a-mall” theme. Surely MKR owns the copyright in the film, but unless it can somehow argue that the theme is an expression of the classic idea of good vs. evil, the theme remains an idea and thus “unprotectible” as Capcom asserted.
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