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ICANN postpones limitless domain plan (Out-Law) (Intellectual Property Watch) (The Trademark Blog)
ECJ: Database infringements depend on taking, not usage, of data: Apis-Hristovich EOOD v Lakorda AD (Out-Law) (IPKat)
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation sets up its own Bittorent tracker (Michael Geist) (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica) (Media Wonk)
YouTube to block music videos to British users due to clash with PRS over UK licence (IPKat) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (Out-Law)
UK: Featured Artists Coalition say public should not be prosecuted for downloading music illegally from the internet, join fray against YouTube (TorrentFreak) (ContentAgenda) (Michael Geist) (ContentAgenda)
RIM records all employee calls to protect IP (ZDNet Australia) (Michael Geist)
Protecode launches software IP audit services (IP Frontline)
Darknets and the future of P2P investigators (Ars Technica)
MPA funded study explores connections between movie piracy and terrorism (Ars Technica)
Wikipedia and attribution (Creative Commons)
Nina Paley’s ‘Sita Sings the Blues’ out under attribution-share alike (Creative Commons)
InSUBS campaign: fansubbers are not thieves, but avid consumers (TorrentFreak)
ICANN postpones limitless domain plan (Out-Law) (Intellectual Property Watch) (The Trademark Blog)
Pope calls on ICANN to keep religion out of domain name system (Out-Law) (Techdirt)
ICANN head steps down at Mexico meeting (Managing Intellectual Property)
WIPO releases stats on domain name complaints before it – US wins gold (Class 46)
WIPO registers domain despite clear pre-existing trade mark in domain for another firm (Michael Geist)
WIPO: ‘lufthanza.com’ and ‘lufthansaairlines.com’ to be transferred to Lufthansa (Class 46)
13th session of WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents to consider Microsoft position paper (BLOG@IP::JUR)
Saskatchewan School Division pays $190,000 to settle software claims (Michael Geist)
Canadian MPs Keith Ashfield and Roger Cuzner’s domains fall into hands of domainers (Michael Geist) (Canadian Trademark Blog)
IsoHunt takes on the CRIA in court (TorrentFreak) (Michael Geist)
Angus Reid surveys find public against new media and file sharing ISP levies (Michael Geist)
ECJ: ‘Direct and individual concern’ and domain names: Galileo Lebensmittel GmbH v Commission of the European Community (IPKat)
ECJ: Database infringements depend on taking, not usage, of data: Apis-Hristovich EOOD v Lakorda AD (Out-Law) (IPKat)
Preliminary ruling requested from ECJ on Commission Regulation No 874/2004on .eu TLDs and principles governing their registration: Internetportal und Marketing GmbH v Richard Schlicht (Class 46) (IPKat)
France postpones consideration of three strikes law to end of March (Media Wonk)
French anti-P2P law toughest in the world (Ars Technica)
French ISP Numericable opposes graduated response plan but suggests reducing bandwidth for repeat P2P users (ContentAgenda)
French telcos, ISPs protest three strikes plan, complaining of high costs involved with compliance (Techdirt)
French police save millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu (Ars Technica)
German patent troll strikes again – Mannheim court agrees HTC Corporation has infringed IP-Com’s patents (IAM)
Blackout Ireland rallies support against P2P disconnections (Ars Technica) (EFF)
Torrent search engine Mininova earning €1 million a year (Ars Technica)
Anti-piracy law is ‘reasonable’ says CEO of RIANZ (TorrentFreak) (ContentAgenda)
Key Kiwi ISP TelstraClear looking to block NZ P2P disconnection law (Ars Technica) (Michael Geist)
Three strikes striking out (Media Wonk)
Labour Party issues copyright talks invitation (ContentAgenda)
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation sets up its own Bittorent tracker (Michael Geist) (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica) (Media Wonk)
Web radio services go offline over licence fee; broadcasters asked by recording industry to pay for online streaming (ContentAgenda)
Lphant sells out to music industry (TorrentFreak)
Pirate Bay – storm warning or safe harbour? (IP Think Tank)
Pirate Party politician Jonas Bergling fired for his political views (TorrentFreak)
Large pirate topsite ‘Sunnydale’ raided, over 65 terabytes seized (TorrentFreak)
UK says no copyright exception for mashups (Techdirt)
YouTube to block music videos to British users due to clash with PRS over UK licence (IPKat) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (Out-Law)
Featured Artists Coalition say public should not be prosecuted for downloading music illegally from the internet, join fray against YouTube (TorrentFreak) (ContentAgenda) (Michael Geist) (ContentAgenda)
New job for the man who exposed Comcast’s P2P throttling (Ars Technica)
District Court N D California finds IBM didn’t violate software licensing agreement with RSI (Law360)
Google’s top patent lawyer notes ‘disturbing trend’ of lawyer-inventors (The Prior Art)
Trolls square off against tech in patent reform fight (Ars Technica)
USPTO memo explains examination standards under Bilski (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog) (Patently-O)
CAFC: Court sustains use of independent expert: Monolithic Power Systems, Asustek, and Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing v O2 Micro (Hal Wegner) (Patent Prospector) (Law360)
District Court N D California: $397 judgment entered in Rambus, Hynix case (Law360)
Round I of amicus briefs in Bilski v Doll (Patently-O) (Inventive Step) (Law360) (IP Frontline)
Acceleron – Judge dismisses Hewlett-Packard’s DJ patent suit against Acceleron, refusing to invalidate blade server patent (Law360)
Aloft Media – Aloft adds newly issued patent to lawsuit against SAP America, Oracle, Sage Software and Infor Global Solutions over collaborative decision protocol software (Law360)
Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) – ITC to investigate Avago’s complaint against Emcore Corp regarding optoelectronic devices (ITC 337 Law Blog) (Law360)
Comodo Communications – Comodo accuses J2 Global Communications of fraudulently obtaining patents for internet faxing products (Law360)
Google – Google now fourth company to settle with Klausner Technologies in patent dispute over visual voice-messaging technology (Law360)
IBM – IBM wants ASUSTeK sanctioned in discovery spat (Law360)
InterDigital – Nokia, InterDigital patent spat kicked back to ITC (Law360)
Microsoft – Microsoft claims 8 patents infringed by TomTom’s portable GPS device using Linux (Spicy IP)
Nextel – Nextel appeals order and judgment affirms jury verdict of infringement and $2.78 million in damages in dispute with Enovsys concerning cell phone GPS positioning technology (PATracer)
Samsung – ON Semiconductor, Samsung settle DRAM duel (Law360)
Seer Systems – Seers Systems threatens EFF with defamation lawsuit over statements made as parts of EFF’s Patent Busting Project (EFF)
Software Tree – Software Tree files lawsuit against Red Hat alleging that JBoss infringes patent on object-relational technologies (Ars Technica)
Sony Corp – Sony, Westinghouse settle patent dispute over closed-caption and digital copy protection technologies (Law360)
Jim Griffin on Choruss voluntary collective license for music file-sharing (EFF) (ContentAgenda)
Google book search settlement (Singularity Law) (Chicago Intellectual Property Law Blog)
Hypocrisy or necessity? RIAA continues filing lawsuits (Ars Technica)
US Department of Justice: Texas man sentenced to 41 months prison for selling counterfeit software worth $1 million on websites (ContentAgenda)
Eminem producers lose bid for massive iTunes royalties (Ars Technica) (Law360)
Supreme Court to hear case brought by freelance writers against several major publishers and online media services on the electronic reproduction of freelance works: In re: Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation (Managing Intellectual Property) (IP Spotlight)
Associated Press – Hot news meets DMCA: Associated Press v All Headline News Corp (Intellectual Property Law Blog)
Google – Google’s DMCA takedowns leaving Blogger users high and dry (Ars Technica)
RealNetworks – MPAA accuses RealNetworks of hamstringing DVD-ripping software lawsuit by destroying evidence (Ars Technica)
RIAA – Judge Gertner denies defendant’s motion to compel deposition and warns sanctions will be imposed if further frivolous motions are filed: Sony v Tenenbaum (Excess Copyright) (Ars Technica)
Riddick, George – George Riddick uses PRO IP Law to threaten numerous sites over use of clipart (Techdirt)
Square-Enix – Retailers agree not to sell real world costume replica of virtual sword used in Square-Eni&xrsquo; video game Final Fantasy (Techdirt)
Warner Music – Fair use massacre continues: now Warner’s going after the babies (EFF)
Utah House passes HB 450 to regulate keyword advertising (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
District Court E D Virginia: Cybersquatter hit with maximum penalty: Citigroup, Inc v Shui (Internet Cases)
AdJuggler obtains default judgment in trade mark case against Adjog.com (Seattle Trademark Lawyer)
Microsoft – Microsoft reaches settlement with OnlineNIC in cybersquatting dispute (Law360)