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French Parliament passes HADOPI ‘3 strikes’ law (Intellectual Property Watch) (Michael Geist) (Intellectual Property Watch) (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (Excess Copyright) (Freedom to Tinker) (EFF) (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog) (Excess Copyright) (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog) (Michael Geist)

Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris rejects L’Oreal’s claim that eBay has liability for sale of fake goods; proposes mediation (Class 46) (Class 46) (IPKat) (Out-Law)

US: Google hit with major class action trade mark lawsuit over trademarked keyword ad sales: FPX v Google (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (Ars Technica) (Out-Law)

Technology and IP: Is there a next big thing? (IP finance)

Open source: The model is about branding (Kogelschatz on Advertising)

The downturn means new anti-counterfeiting priorities at Nokia (IAM)

Economist copyright debate: ‘This house believes that existing copyright laws do more harm than good’ (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog)

Apple rejects iPhone BitTorrent app (WIRED) (TorrentFreak) (EFF)

Business Software Association piracy data: Does the WIPO Copyright Treaty work?  (Michael Geist)

Business Software Association: don’t miss point of piracy report by focusing on $$$ (Ars Technica)

BayTSP tracks file-sharers, sends infringement notices to ISPs (TorrentFreak)

ICANN notice re new gTLDs (including timetable) (The Trademark Blog)

‘Regions for which Google will not investigate the use of trade marks as keywords’ expands to 194 countries (IPKat)

From amazon.com to amzn.com – Facebook, Twitter and short domain name value (Domain Name / Nom de Domaine!)

Apple designer, Jonathan Ive, loses UDRP case over own name (Managing Intellectual Property) (Out-Law)

Standards of UDRP handling (UDRPlaw.net)

Via Licensing issues call for long term evolution (LTE) patents (IP Frontline) 

New domain dispute system for Bolivia (IP tango)

Federal Court judge awards $250,000 over software piracy: Microsoft Corporation v PC Village Co Ltd (ipblog.ca)

Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians adopts copyright resolutions (Michael Geist)

Report shows Canada declining as source of P2P infringement claims (Michael Geist)

House of Commons lawyers sent takedown notices over committee video (Michael Geist)

BSA software piracy study: China 80%; ranks 24^th highest (IP Dragon)

WSJ reports 90% of China’s netizens access pirated music (IP Dragon)

Little Red Book about Xiao Nei (copying Facebook): ‘A great example of digital copycatting done right’ (IP Dragon)

Google will continue to investigate trade marks as keywords in China, Hong Kong and Macau (IP Dragon)

The ‘three strikes’ movement gathers pace (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog)

Intel hammered by EU, faces $1.45 billion fine in antitrust case (Ars Technica) (Ars Technica)

More on the proposed pan-European copyright licence (IPKat)

New study by Institute of European Media Law shows copyright exception for legalising file-sharing is feasible, as a cease-fire in the ‘war on copying’ emerges (Intellectual Property Watch)

Report on the European Commission’s Content Online Platform (Laurence Kaye on Digital Media Law)

Spotify will not launch an unlimited download option (IP finance)

1991 Directive on the legal protection for computer programs newly codified as Directive 2009/24 (Lenz Blog)

Nokia gives away IP ‘to strengthen the Finnish ICT sector’ (IAM)

French Parliament passes HADOPI ‘3 strikes’ law; MEP urges action against France for violating EU law (Intellectual Property Watch) (Michael Geist) (Intellectual Property Watch) (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (Excess Copyright) (Freedom to Tinker) (EFF) (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog) (Excess Copyright)

International Federation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) praise adoption of Hadopi (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog)

France’s contradiction on piracy (Michael Geist)

French Culture Minister suspends aide for leaking ‘3 strikes’ email that led to sacking of TV broadcasting company worker (Ars Technica)

Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris rejects L’Oreal’s claim that eBay has liability for sale of fake goods; proposes mediation (Class 46) (Class 46) (IPKat) (Out-Law)

BSA software piracy study: Hong Kong 48%, ranks average (IP Dragon)

Music piracy controversy surrounds charity fund raising (TorrentFreak)

Online advertising and keyword update (Class 46)

Copyright group SGAE: No need to hear P2P site’s defense (TorrentFreak)

Swedish government tries to collect fine from The Pirate Bay (Ars Technica)

Pirate Bay closer to a retrial, demands new investigation (TorrentFreak)

Music industry’s plea for Pirate Bay damages backfires (TorrentFreak)

Taiwan’s three strikes sanction less strict than French equivalent (IP Dragon)

BSA software piracy study: Taiwan 39%, ranks 23^rd lowest (IP Dragon)

‘New’ anti-piracy lawyers chase UK file-sharers (TorrentFreak)

UK ISPs refuse to play internet copyright cops (Ars Technica)

UK entertainment industry wants to disconnect pirates (TorrentFreak)

PRS launches new online licences for July (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog)

Time to revise your software principles? (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog)

Section 230 immunity: Barnes v Yahoo! (Internet Cases) (Ars Technica) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)

DoJ Antitrust division shifts to more aggressive approach (Patent Baristas)

BPAI affirms ‘apparatus’ 101 rejection: Ex Parte Snyder (12:01 Tuesday)

Fractus – Fractus sues cell phone manufacturers Samsung, LG, RIM, Pantech, Kyocera, Palm, HTC, UTStarcom and Sanyo for infringement of nine patents (IP Frontline)

US Copyright Office hearings on exemptions under the DMCA: MPAA says teachers should camcord clips for class, rather than break encryption on DVD; outrageous arguments against fair use, consumer rights (Intellectual Property Watch) (Michael Geist) (Public Knowledge) (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (EFF)

White House photos update: Flickr removes license from government photos (EFF)

California open source digital textbook plan faces barriers (Ars Technica)

The war on sharing: Why the Free Software Foundation cares about RIAA lawsuits (TorrentFreak)

Vulnerability renders MPAA/RIAA copyright warnings useless (TorrentFreak)

9^th Circuit: Statutory damages for infringement of illegal bingo gambling: Dream Games of Arizona v PC Onsite (The IP Law Blog)

Apple – Psystar ordered to give Apple detailed financial docs (Ars Technica)

Google – News exec to Google: We’ve got ‘hot news’ and we know how to use it; News publishers take their demands to Capitol Hill (The Prior Art) (Public Knowledge)

Google – YouTube sails out of safe harbour to reinstate National Organisation for Marriage video (Ars Technica)

Google – Google books: Too big to infringe? (At Last… the 1709 Copyright Blog)

RealNetworks – RealNetworks says studios, DVD Copy Control Association ‘illegal cartel’ squeeze out fair use (Ars Technica)

RIAA – Jammie Thomas, RIAA unable to settle (Ars Technica)

Google – Google hit with major class action trade mark lawsuit over trade marked keyword ad sales: FPX v Google (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (Ars Technica) (Out-Law)