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McCain campaign sends letter to YouTube defending fair use; YouTube tells McCain he doesn’t get special DMCA treatment (Law360) (Ars Technica) (Ars Technica) (EFF) (Techdirt) (The Trademark Blog) (Lessig Blog) (Lessig Blog) (Lessig Blog) (EFF) (Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log) (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (EXCESS COPYRIGHT) (Public Knowledge) (Public Knowledge)
European Court of Justice rules database owners can prevent material from being transferred from their database even if there is no technical process of copying: Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Out-Law) (Managing Intellectual Property)
German court finds Google Image thumbnails infringe on copyright; Google to appeal (Law360) (Out-Law) (Techdirt)
Expanded top-level domain scheme to challenge trade mark owners (Seattle Trademark Lawyer)
This post is stolen – DRM and piracy (IPKat)
Tolkien rights owner reclaims ‘hobbit’ domain names (The Trademark Blog)
Open source protectionism? (ZDNet – A Developer’s View)
CLIPARAMA.com launches world’s biggest video only search (Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates)
Details released on the Radiohead experiment results: a tremendous success (Techdirt)
Disney EULA funny, but also a bit sad (Innovationpartners)
Canada Election 2008 – a digital policy scorecard (Michael Geist)
European Court of Justice rules database owners can prevent material from being transferred from their database even if there is no technical process of copying: Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Out-Law) (Managing Intellectual Property)
German Federal Supreme Court hearing three ‘AdWord’ cases (Class 46)
German court finds Google Image thumbnails infringe on copyright; Google to appeal (Law360) (Out-Law) (Techdirt)
New Zealand Copyright Minister sneaks in 3 strikes law (Techdirt)
Norwegian Consumer Council wants special complaint board for copyright lawsuits (Techdirt)
United Kingdom
Software patents get boost from Court of Appeal: Symbian v Comptroller General of Patents (Out-Law) (Techdirt) (Patently-O)
UK ruling says that authorities can force you to hand over your encryption key (Techdirt)
More on plans to combat illicit P2P file-sharing (Laurence Kaye on Digital Media Law)
United States
Larry Lessig on how to save remix culture (Techdirt)
Lessig to Wall Street Journal headline writers: ‘Remix’ is not ‘A defense of piracy’ (Lessig Blog)
McCain campaign sends letter to YouTube defending fair use; YouTube tells McCain he doesn’t get special DMCA treatment (Law360) (Ars Technica) (Ars Technica) (EFF) (Techdirt) (The Trademark Blog) (Lessig Blog) (Lessig Blog) (Lessig Blog) (EFF) (Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log) (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (EXCESS COPYRIGHT) (Public Knowledge) (Public Knowledge)
Ten years of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (Public Knowledge)
Do you need an exemption from the DMCA? (EFF)
Universities launch 78 terabyte digital library (Ars Technica)
Wal-Mart agrees to keep DRM servers running for time being (Techdirt) (Ars Technica)
Why Hollywood hates RealDVD (EFF) (Techdirt)
Android takes form as the H1 handheld device is launched (IP finance)
Another band, Mudvayne, starts bundling scarce and infinite goods: The album is the ticket program (Techdirt)
Compuware study: Employees, not hackers, cause most corporate data loss (Ars Technica)
Google funds typosquatting, infringement according to study by Harvard Uni professor (Law360)
Search engine ‘cache’ function covered by implied license: Parker v Yahoo (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
Judge rejects Retail Decision’s invalidity bid in online payment suit against CyberSource (Law360)
Adobe settles network patent dispute with Droplets (Law360)
Hottrix sues Coors over competing virtual beer iPhone application (Techdirt)
Music Choice sues for summary judgment of patent invalidity in battle with Viacom over digital music patent (Law360)
RIAA appeals mistrial ruling in the Jammie Thomas trial (Techdirt) (Ars Technica)