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Article One patent bounty paid as reward for prior art found relevant to patent litigation against Garmin over graphical interface touch screen keyboard display (Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates) (IP Watchdog) (IAM) (Patently-O) (IP Frontline)
US Broadband stimulus – copyright filtering (Public Knowledge) (Public Knowledge) (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (EFF) (Ars Technica) (EFF) (Public Knowledge)
Authors’ Guild asserts Amazon’s Kindle device that reads book you have purchased out loud infringes copyright by creating derivative work and performance in public (Excess Copyright) (Public Knowledge) (EFF) (Internet Cases)
Sweden: Pirate Bay trial audio to be streamed online, covered in as many languages as possible on Twitter (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak)
ISP liability, limitations and exceptions top global copyright issues in 2009 (Intellectual Property Watch)
Internet governance policy in 2009: transition to new digital oversight (Intellectual Property Watch)
YouTube tests download and creative commons license options (Creative Commons)
Former EMI boss: fight against illicit P2P is ‘useless’ (TorrentFreak)
P2P researchers fear BitTorrent meltdown (TorrentFreak)
Mininova – one million torrents strong (breakdown of torrents by category) (TorrentFreak)
Moore says copyright reform bill likely in the fall (Michael Geist)
Government of Canada and open source (ipblog.ca)
Mozilla’s call for EU intervention in browser war is troubling (Ars Technica) (Techdirt)
Viviane Reding on the internet of the future (Intellectual Property Watch)
Sponsored links: French first instance court condemns Google (Class 46) (Techdirt)
Germany says ‘nein’ to three-strikes infringement plan (Ars Technica)
Microsoft tries to bridge India’s university-industry divide (Managing Intellectual Property)
‘Decompilation’ defence under Indian copyright law: redundant? (Spicy IP)
Torrent Site ‘franchise’ eliminated by BREIN (TorrentFreak)
Deal between ISPs and recording industry on how to thwart piracy falters (ContentAgenda)
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Pirate Bay plans to sue IFPI if ISPs fail to overturn ruling forcing them to block access to the BitTorrent site (TorrentFreak)
Pirate Bay trial audio to be streamed online, covered in as many languages as possible on Twitter (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak)
Digital Britain plan gives favourable treatment to the music business and props up failed business models, says Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software (Out-Law)
Bad Science columnist’s use of extended clip attracts copyright claims (Ars Technica) (Techdirt)
UK Woolies goes online – but at what cost? (IP finance)
Software patents at the UK IPO (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog)
Open letter to Obama: Uncle Sam should go open source (Ars Technica)
EFF relaunches legal guide for bloggers (EFF)
Facebook – Facebook, UConnect trade secrets settlement deal worth $65 million according to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges (Law360)
Article One – Patent bounty paid as reward for prior art found relevant to patent litigation against Garmin over graphical interface touch screen keyboard display (Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates) (IP Watchdog) (IAM) (Patently-O) (IP Frontline)
Brother – Microsoft, Brother sign cross-licensing agreement allowing each company to access parts of the other’s patent portfolio (Managing Intellectual Property)
Finoc – Finoc sues Cisco, Netgear, Motorola and 3com over broadband patent (Law360)
Implicit Networks – Implicit suit against Intel, AMD, Real Networks and Sun over encryption technology stayed pending re-examination; Sun sues for declaratory judgment (Washington State Patent Law Blog) (Washington State Patent Law Blog)
Microsoft – Microsoft licenses ActivSync patents to Google (Law360)
Psystar – Psystar allowed to pursue two of its four amended counterclaims against Apple (Ars Technica)
Teles AG Informationstechnologien – Cisco counterclaims Teles’ patent relating to transmission of telecommunications data online is invalid, unenforceable, not infringed (Law360)
Broadband stimulus – copyright filtering (Public Knowledge) (Public Knowledge) (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (EFF) (Ars Technica) (EFF) (Public Knowledge)
Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Day conference (Ars Technica) (Media Wonk) (Public Knowledge)
EFF calls on Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers from DRM (EFF)
CTIA: All your cell phones belong to us! – CTIA’s opposition to DMCA exemptions proposed by EFF and Wireless Alliance (EFF)
Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit upholds ruling finding editor of 2600 magazine violated anti-trafficking provision of the DMCA by linking to DeCSS hosting sites (Media Wonk)
Amazon – Authors’ Guild asserts Amazon’s Kindle device that reads book you have purchased out loud infringes copyright by creating derivative work and performance in public (Excess Copyright) (Public Knowledge) (EFF) (Internet Cases)
Google – Google accused of invisibly deleting blog posts on the RIAA’s say-so (Techdirt) (ContentAgenda)
Google – Increasing concerns raised over Google’s book search settlement (Techdirt)
Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) – Meritless copyright claims won’t interfere with YouTube rodeo critiques: SHARK settles online video battle with Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) (EFF) (Ars Technica)
TorrentSpy – TorrentSpy ordered to start logging, retaining and giving movie studios IP addresses of TorrentSpy users in Columbia v Bunnell (EFF)
Veoh – Universal Music Group can’t name Veoh’s investors as defendants in the case (Ars Technica) (Techdirt)
Warner Music – Warner Music sues Songbeat (Techdirt)
Trade mark infringement and false designation claims not subject to heightened pleading standard: Indiaweekly.com, LLC v Nehaflix.com, Inc (Internet Cases)
Harry and David Holdings – Harry and David sue rival Hickory Farms for purchasing keyword trigger ‘Harry and David’ from Google and other search engines (Law360)