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UK passes Digital Economy Bill (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (IP Watch) (1709 Copyright Blog) (Ars Technica)
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules FCC had no right to sanction Comcast for P2P blocking (Ars Technica) (EFF) (Public Knowledge) (Public Knowledge) (TorrentFreak) (IP Spotlight)
District Court Utah: Jury confirms Novell owns Unix copyrights – Linux remains free: SCO Group v Novell (eLegal) (Tangible IP) (Ars Technica) (Eyes on IP)
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirms dismissal of infringement cause, remands false advertisement: Tiffany v eBay (The Trademark Blog) (IPKat) (IPKat) (EFF)
International Telecommunications Union in a converging world: Interview with ITU strategist Alexander Ntoko (IP Watch)
Format shifting dead trees: can e-book piracy be ethical? (Ars Technica)
How to thrive among pirates – a look at film industry in China, Nigeria and India (The Technium)
Government plans national digital economy consultation (Michael Geist)
Transcript Canadian Heritage Committee hearing on new media posted (Michael Geist)
RCMP arrests man for modifying game console (Michael Geist)
The truth about ACTA – Michael Geist’s speech at European Parliament hearing on ACTA (Michael Geist)
Arguments against software patents in India (Spicy IP)
In aggregation case, Israeli court says online ads aren’t copyrightable (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
Piracy rampant among Spanish government officials (TorrentFreak)
Anti-piracy lawyers vandalize Wikipedia page (TorrentFreak)
Digital Economy Bill passes (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (IP Watch) (1709 Copyright Blog) (Ars Technica)
Barclay Capital Inc. v. TheFlyOnTheWall.com: Hot news doctrine alive and kicking; will news aggregators be next? (Citizen Media Law Project)
Is permission needed to retweet hot news? – Laura Malone of Associated Press speaks at FTC conference on future of news (Ars Technica)
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules FCC had no right to sanction Comcast for P2P blocking (Ars Technica) (EFF) (Public Knowledge) (Public Knowledge) (TorrentFreak) (IP Spotlight)
CAFC rules AdWords doesn’t infringe bidding patent: Bid for Position, LLC v AOL, LLC et al (Ars Technica)
Bergstrom – District Court N D Illinois refuses unnecessarily burdensome restrictions on source code production: Bergstrom v Glacier Bay, Inc (Chicago Intellectual Property Law Blog)
Microsoft – Microsoft files new 337 complaint against Datel Design and Development regarding certain game controllers (ITC 337 Law Blog)
T-Mobile – Motion to transfer denied, citing Texas connections and governing law: Calypso Wireless v T-Mobile USA Inc (EDTexweblog.com)
Copyright industry: Copyrights trump human rights? – USTR Special 301 (Public Knowledge)
DMCA takedowns: Trampling on free speech rights? (Ars Technica)
Get your e-book on the iPad (and keep the royalties) (Ars Technica)
District Court N D California: Facebook preliminarily wins copyright lawsuit over third party app: Miller v Facebook (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
District Court Utah: Jury confirms Novell owns Unix copyrights – Linux remains free: SCO Group v Novell (eLegal) (Tangible IP) (Ars Technica) (Eyes on IP)
Google – Visual artists file class action against Google over plans to make digital copies of millions of books: ASMP et al v Google (The Trademark Blog)
isoHunt – isoHunt redirects US visitors to Lite version (TorrentFreak)
Linden Lab – Fair use gets a fair shake in Second Life – Linden Lab releases updated Terms of Service (EFF)
DNAttorney.com study reveals imbalance in UDRP panellist participation and outcomes at National Arbitration Foundation (UDRPlaw.net)
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirms dismissal of infringement cause, remands false advertisement: Tiffany v eBay (The Trademark Blog) (Trade mark infringement – IPKat) (False advertising – IPKat) (EFF)
Facebook – Facebook shuts down ‘Facebook Ultimate’ iPad app over alleged trademark infringement (Phosita)
Microsoft – Typosquatter defendant says Microsoft’s settlement offer amounts to extortion (Seattle Trademark Lawyer)