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German Federal Supreme Court refers main ‘AdWord’ question to ECJ but decides on ‘AdWord’ use of company names (IPKat) (Class 46)

Isle of Man eCommerce Minister wants to legalise P2P music file sharing (Michael Geist) (Out-Law) (Techdirt)

RIAA files appeal against ruling allowing streaming of Tenenbaum hearing (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (Intellectual Property Directions) (Techdirt) (Ip’s What’s Up) (Techdirt) (IP ADR Blog) (IP Watchdog)

Global

IFPI report: 95% music downloading illegal (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (Managing Intellectual Property) (Techdirt)

Music industry imitates digital pirates to turn a profit (ContentAgenda)

Happy birthday Wikipedia! (Creative Commons)

CASH Music: Exploring creative commons licensing in the music industry (Creative Commons)

How feasible is licensing by the regular folk? (Ip’s What’s Up)

Nina Paley’s film ‘Sita Sings the Blues’ cannot be distributed due to copyright issues (Spicy IP)

Eric Goldman’s article ‘Brand Spillovers’ now available (Eric Goldman)

Patent-holding software engineer explains why software patent harm innovation (Techdirt)

Angola to approve Law on Copyrights against Piracy (Content Agenda)

All major Canadian ISPs slow down P2P traffic (TorrentFreak)

Comparing copyright notices of White House and Prime Minister of Canada’s websites – (Michael Geist) (Creative Commons)

National Film Board makes films free online (Michael Geist)

6 ½ years for mastermind of multinational piracy of Microsoft software (DeBund)

TDC, Denmark’s largest ISP, blocks The Pirate Bay (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt)

EU competition watchdog slams Microsoft yet again and draws ex-ITC chief’s ire (IAM) (Techdirt)

T3 lodges formal complaint against IBM in European Commission (Law360) (IAM)

April deadline set for submissions in EPO software case (Managing Intellectual Property)

Al Jazeera gets free culture (Lessig)

BGH (Federal Supreme Court) refers main ‘AdWord’ question to ECJ but decides on ‘AdWord’ use of company names (IPKat) (Class 46)

Commercial Court: Hearing begins in IFPI’s action against ISP Eircom over subscriber file-sharing (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt)

Isle of Man eCommerce Minister wants to legalise P2P music file sharing (Michael Geist) (Out-Law) (Techdirt)

Italy to follow French 3 strikes model for P2P (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt)

Economy profits from file-sharing, concludes report commissioned by Dutch government (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Michael Geist)

Web Sheriff takes down one of the world’s most popular release news sites, RLSlog (TorrentFreak)

Government succumbs to entertainment industry pressure; enacts ‘three strikes’ regime (Excess Copyright)

Copyright infringement fakes could disconnect innocent Kiwis (ContentAgenda)

Telcos want delay in law on net piracy (ContentAgenda)

Controversy as Sony BMG, Platekompaniet and others find their Google ads appear on IsoHunt BitTorrent site (TorrentFreak)

Ung Pirat the youth organisation of the Swedish Pirate Part receives government funding (TorrentFreak)

Sweden considers police action against file-sharers (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt)

Swedish police want personal info of P2P users (Ars Technica)

Government file-sharing options rejected by industry (Out-Law)

UK ISPs to become piracy cops (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt)

United States

Obama wants open source IT solutions for US (IP Watchdog)

Second District Court of Appeal and Circuit Court upholds ruling compelling CMI to release source code; ‘defendant’s right to a fair trial outweighed manufacturer’s claim of a trade secret’ (Slashdot)

District Court N D of California: Etilize loses summary judgment bid in CNET suit over patents to aggregate data for online purchasing and cataloguing systems (Law360)

USPTO rejects all twenty claims of Ideaflood’s subdomain patent (EFF Patent Busting Project) (EFF) (Ars Technica) (Techdirt)

Apple – Apple threatening patent lawsuits over new Palm Pre (Techdirt)

Google – Google seeks to invalidate Aloft’s patent in lawsuit over Google’s Toolbar application (Law360)

Linksmart Wireless Technology – Linksmart adds InterContinental Hotels Group Resources to Wi-Fi patents infringement proceedings (Law360)

Northbrook Digital Corp – Northbrook, Browster settle web browser patent spat (Law360)

Has the fat lady finished singing at YouTube? (IP Think Tank)

Whitehouse.gov’s 3^rd party content under CC-BY (Creative Commons)

EFF’s site FreeYourPhone.org launches, pushes for new DMCA exemption (Ars Technica)

Corporation of Public Broadcasting agrees on internet royalty payments (ContentAgenda)

Music piracy not that bad, industry says (TorrentFreak)

District Court W D Virginia: Judge decides 17,000 illegal downloads don’t equal 17,000 lost sales: United States of America v Dove (Ars Technica)

District Court Alexandria: Computer program seller who printed own computer program labels appearing to be Microsoft labels ‘knowingly’ violated 18 USC § 2318: Microsoft Corp v Pronet Cyber Technologies Inc (ContentAgenda)

HBO – HBO forcing takedowns of privately filmed videos of Obama inauguration concert on YouTube (Techdirt)

RIAA – RIAA files appeal against ruling allowing streaming of Tenenbaum hearing (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (Intellectual Property Directions) (Techdirt) (Ip’s What’s Up) (Techdirt) (IP ADR Blog) (IP Watchdog)

RIAA – RIAA pulls out of John Doe cases involving college students (Ars Technica)

YouTube – YouTube removes film critic Kevin Lee’s videos from YouTube after third DMCA notice (Ars Technica)

YouTube – YouTube rolls out ‘Click to download’ (Lessig)

YouTube – YouTube to start warning users over copyrighted music (ContentAgenda)

District Court N D Texas: American Airlines v Yahoo venue transfer denied (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)