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Highlights this week included:

Wall Street Journal reports Obama, Lessig and Google have shifted their positions on net neutrality; Google, Lessig slam WSJ report (Lessig) (IPTAblog) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (Excess Copyright) (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda)

Free Software Foundation files copyright lawsuit against Cisco over alleged General Public Licence infringement (Ars Technica) (Techdirt) (The Prior Art) (The Trademark Blog)

Hasbro drops copyright infringement suit against Scrabulous creators (Techdirt) (Law360) (IP ADR Blog) (CNet) (The IP Factor)

Global

Global – General

Internet Governance Forum: ACTA a possible show-stopper for IP progress (Intellectual Property Watch)

From MySpace to BlackBerry, there’s no shortage of challengers to the hegemony of iTunes (ContentAgenda)

Global – Copyright

Dramatic growth of open access: 2008 early annual edition (The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics)

Ubisoft drops Prince of Persia DRM, remains sceptical (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Ars Technica)

Can you guilt someone into not pirating software? – USB Overdrive X anti-piracy strategy (Techdirt)

Pirates and IT (RelatIP)

Global – Trade Marks

ICANN plan for new TLDs comes under barrage of criticism (Ars Technica)

OTX study ‘The Impact of Social Media on Purchasing Behaviour’ reveals consumers rely on social media websites as much as company websites for product and brand information (IP finance)

Australia

A battle of culture and copyright: Village Roadshow & Ors v iiNet (ContentAgenda)

Movie studios spied on ISP’s BitTorrent users: Village Roadshow & Ors v iiNet (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt)

China

China ready to make money with homebred 3G standard TD-SCDMA (IP Dragon)

Europe

Why is the EU funding DRM? (Techdirt)

France

Court of Cassation rules French consumers must pay iPod tax when buying MP3 players online from other countries (Managing Intellectual Property)

Japan

‘Wanted’ P2P pre-releaser gets 2 year suspended jail sentence (TorrentFreak)

Malaysia

Film producer David Teo claims YouTube eating into filmmakers’ profits (ContentAgenda)

Netherlands

Anti-piracy outfit BREIN claims to have taken down 75 BitTorrent trackers, including Luckytorrents, Allmymovies, Digi-tor.rog and Seedstor.org (TorrentFreak)

Dutch Supreme Court’s questions for the ECJ in Primakabin/Portakabin Adword case (Class 46)

Singapore

Singapore enacts new anti-circumvention exceptions (Michael Geist)

United Kingdom

UK TV/film stars urge ISPs to stop piracy (TorrentFreak) (ContentAgenda)

Virgin Media to throttle BitTorrent users (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica)

UK DVD, CD retailers give more bogus predictions about lost jobs due to piracy (Techdirt)

BBC relies on ‘pirate’ audio to bring back lost TV show (TorrentFreak)

OiNK BitTorrent tracker admin and uploaders appear in court charged with conspiracy to defraud, copyright charges (TorrentFreak)

Which? v Davenport Lyons – the saga continues (IPKat)

IPO guidance on patentability of computer programs following Symbian comes under criticism (Managing Intellectual Property) (Out-Law)

United States

US – General

The twelve days of EFF (EFF)

Wall Street Journal reports Obama, Lessig and Google have shifted their positions on net neutrality; Google, Lessig slam WSJ report (Lessig) (IPTAblog) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (Excess Copyright) (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda)

Obama Chief Technology Officer crowdsources priorities – top priorities so far: net neutrality, privacy, repealing DMCA (Michael Geist)

Pew Internet & American Life Project: The internet of 2020 – more cellphones, intolerance, less DRM (Ars Technica)

US – Copyright

Free Software Foundation files copyright lawsuit against Cisco over alleged General Public Licence infringement (Ars Technica) (Techdirt) (The Prior Art) (The Trademark Blog)

Hasbro drops copyright infringement suit against Scrabulous creators (Techdirt) (Law360) (IP ADR Blog) (CNet) (The IP Factor)

Open source torrents forced offline by Entertainment Software Association (TorrentFreak)

Parameters start to form for online content laws (Law360)

Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride puts fans in charge of bands: PBS interview with Terry McBride (PBS) (Techdirt)

‘Can I resell my MP3s?’: the post-sale life of digital goods (Ars Technica)

Licensed software and the legality of backup copies (Compliance Matters)

‘We just link to videos!’ won’t stave off MPAA lawyers – copyright infringement lawsuits launched against campusist.com, movies-on-demand.tv and sswarez.com (Ars Technica) (WIRED)

Record labels disobey court order on how student info can be used (Techdirt)

RIAA just keeps on suing students: conversation at the end of a gun barrel – Discussion of labels’ collective licensing on campus proposal (Techdirt)

New York governor proposes taxing downloads (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda)

US – Trade Marks

Microsoft appears to leapfrog competing intent-to-use application for search engine mark, KUMO (Seattle Trademark Lawyer)

Internet coexistence is possible: H Jay Speigel & Associates v Speigel (Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log)

US – Patents

CAFC upholds lower court’s decision to deny preliminary injunction sought by iLOR, which claims Google’s Notebook application infringes its hyperlink patent (Promote the Progress) (Patent Prospector) (IP Watchdog)

Why software is not math (PLI)

Google counterclaims patent invalidity in web browser patent infringement suit brought by Aloft (Law360)

Variant sues 13 in 2^nd web marketing patent suit (Law360)

Skype settles VoIP patent spat with Mangosoft (Law360)

DataTern reaches settlement with Bank of America, one of numerous defendants in lawsuit it filed over web design patents (Law360)

Federal judge dismisses Rembrandt’s internet dial-up patent infringement allegations against AOL and Canon for failure to state a claim (Law360)

Database Structures files patent infringement lawsuit against Oracle over technology relating to encoding method for database compression (Law360)

TQP Development files patent suit against major banks including Merrill Lynch & Co, Bank of America and Citigroup over online encryption technology (Law360)