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Motion Picture Association Fills Litigation Counsel Spot
The Motion Picture Association of America on Monday announced that it has hired Karen Thorland as vice president and senior content protection counsel.
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In U.S. Crackdown on “Pirate” Sites, It’s Sometimes Difficult To Determine Who’s a Pirate
Late into the night at the end of November, a text message woke up Waleed A. Gad El Kareem, an open-source web developer in Alexandria, Egypt. The 31-year-old developer had set up an alert to tell him whenever his site Torrent-Finder.com was inaccessible online. “I waited for it to come back, and i
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China Agrees To Update Intellectual Property Rules, Asks U.S. To Relax Export Controls
Government officials from both the United States and China on Wednesday said that they had made progress on several key issues that had been on the table during their trade negotiations in the past couple of days in Washington, D.C.
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Harvard Crimson Gives A Positive Review Of The Movie Industry’s Approach To Illegal Downloading
Harvard’s student newspaper on Monday endorsed the way that the movie industry has approached the phenomenon of illegal downloading at university campuses, calling it “a sensible compromise.”
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Cable From U.S. Embassy In Beijing Reveals U.S. Perspective on Trade Relationship
For all of the tough talk coming out of Congress as the United States and China embark on a high profile trade summit today, a confidential memo sent by U.S. Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman at the beginning of 2010 illustrates how the fortunes of the two countries have changed in modern times, and how th
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U.S. Senate Finance Committee Keeps Up Pressure on Chinese
As requested by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday released the first of two comprehensive reports detailing the impact of China’s “indigenous innovation” policies and its local intellectual property enforcement regime on the U.S. economy.
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Movie and Newspaper Associations, Software Makers Support Viacom’s Appeal of Billion Dollar YouTube Court Decision
A Clinton administration architect of a digital age copyright law, a former solicitor general for the United States, and an army of content industry associations on Friday sided with Viacom in its appeal of a June court decision that said that YouTube wasn’t liable for infringing the media company’s
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New Date for ‘China & Intellectual Property with the Chinese Embassy IP Attache’
WASHINGTON, December 7, 2010 – The internet and intellectual property policy news and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com is postponing its December breakfast , “China & Intellectual Property with the Chinese Embassy IP Attache.” An unforeseen change in the schedule of Fuli Chen, the Chinese Emba
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Viacom: YouTube Doesn’t Qualify For the DMCA’s Safe Harbor
Google’s YouTube isn’t eligible for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions because its founders deliberately built the business on pirated content, according to media behemoth Viacom’s lawyers in an appeal of a June district court ruling against its favor. The appeal cites int
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MPAA Interim Chief “Encouraged” By Google’s Efforts to Curb Online Piracy
The acting chief of the Motion Picture Association of America says that he was “encouraged” by Google’s recent announcement about technical changes it is making to stifle online piracy.
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Justice Alito Says High Court Should Have Addressed Question of Copyright Notices Online
Justice Samuel Alito told his colleagues last week that they missed a rare opportunity to clarify copyright law in the digital age when they declined to hear a case concerning the question of when an individual is sufficiently notified of a musical work’s rights status.
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Report: Russian Authorities Drop Piracy Charges Against Environmental Group
Russian authorities have quietly dropped their piracy charges against an environmental group that had been critical of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s environmental record after Microsoft declined to co-operate in the investigation, according to the New York Times.
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Hollywood Finally Finds A Powerful, Versatile Friend In Silicon Valley
Direct, personal relationships without lawyers as intermediaries appears to be one of the keys to Netflix’s runaway success with its online movie streaming service, according to Greg Sandoval, CNET’s Media Maverick columnist.
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Spotify, Popular European Music Service, Under Pressure To Launch in the U.S.
Swedish online music streaming start-up Spotify is under pressure to launch in the United States, according to the Financial Times.
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Denver Post To The-Audience-Formerly-Known-As-Readers: Don’t Rip Us Off
The Denver Post is apparently trying to prop up its web site traffic by reminding readers of what the legal concept of fair-use really means.
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Report: Oracle Urges Jury To Award $1.7 Billion For Software Theft
Oracle’s high-profile white-collar legal counsel David Boies on Monday told a jury in Oakland that it should award the company $1.7 billion in damages because rival SAP deliberately encouraged a subsidiary to illegally download and copy hundreds of thousands of versions of Oracle software in 2005, a
