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District Court C D California: another victory for Web 2.0, transcoding doesn’t block ‘safe harbor’ defence:  Universal Music Group v Veoh (EFF), (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (Ars Technica) (Techdirt) (Out-Law)

Apple ditches DRM; gives record labels variable iTunes pricing (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (ContentAgenda) (Media Wonk) (Michael Geist) (Law360) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (EFF) (Techdirt)

New Zealand: Creative Freedom Foundation leads campaign to stop file-sharers being ‘guilty upon accusation’ (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Ars Technica)

Global – Copyright

‘Chunking’ – The next big thing in publishing and digitisation? (IP finance)

Five file-sharing predictions for 2009 (TorrentFreak)

George Michael offers free download of new track (TorrentFreak)

Registrar for .be domain names announces alternative dispute resolution tax to be reimbursed to successful complainants, from February 2009 (Class 46)

IP & internet law in 2009 (ipblog.ca)

Canadian digital music sales growth beats the US for third consecutive year (Michael Geist)

Software resale: a China IP puzzle (Part I – China Law Insight) (Part II – China Law Insight)

Perfect 10, Inc v CCBill LLC – Insights on the applications of the safe harbor principle and how this is applied in China (China Law Insights)

Eighty copyright owners including Joy.cn, Polybona Film Distribution to sue video website Tudou.com in China (ContentAgenda)

Video website Tudou.com to launch system whereby copyright owners can request to delete or share revenue from copyright material (China Hearsay)

Google wins lawsuit brought by Beijing Guge Science and Technology Co in China over Google’s subsidiary name and trade mark ‘Gu Ge’ (China Hearsay)

Hustler hires Media Protector to chase online porn pirates (TorrentFreak)

Creative Freedom Foundation leads campaign to stop file-sharers being ‘guilty upon accusation’ (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Ars Technica)

Norwegian podcast puts entire Beatles catalogue online – legally (Ars Technica) (Out-Law)

Spain’s Association of Internet Users demands end to government P2P propaganda (TorrentFreak)

Pirate Party gets massive support in Sweden (TorrentFreak)

United States

Copyright Royalty Board proposes full census reporting for royalties payable to SoundExchange (Saunders & Silverstein) (Techdirt)

Calling all iPhone developers: Support EFF’s DMCA exemption for jailbreaking (EFF)

Online piracy menaces pro sports (The Trademark Blog)

Is the FTC interested in protecting consumers from bad DRM? (Techdirt)

US Copyright Office seeking comments on proposed exempted classes of works (Daily Dose of IP)

Lawrence Lessig opinion article: Don’t make kids online crooks (ContentAgenda)

BitTorrent as marketing tool, nominated for an interactive award (TorrentFreak)

Copyright laws are working – tale of two creators (ContentAgenda)

Developing decent digital distribution solutions – Part III (Ip’s What’s Up)

District Court C D California: another victory for Web 2.0, transcoding doesn’t block ‘safe harbor’ defence:  Universal Music Group v Veoh (EFF), (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (Ars Technica) (Techdirt) (Out-Law)

Apple – Apple ditches DRM; gives record labels variable iTunes pricing (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (ContentAgenda) (Media Wonk) (Michael Geist) (Law360) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (EFF) (Techdirt)

Apple – Psystar accuses Apple of lacking copyrights in Open Computer suit (ContentAgenda)

CoStar – Is accessing a website using someone else’s login copyright infringement?: CoStar v Dumann (Techdirt)

Gatehouse Media – Gatehouse Media sues New York Times over republication of news headlines (Out-Law) (IP Watchdog)

MPAA – MPAA also likes idea of ISP enforcers for file sharing (Techdirt)

Nine Inch Nails – CC-licensed NIN album Amazon’s best-selling MP3 album for 2008 (Creative Commons) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (ReadWriteWeb) (Michael Geist)

Nine Inch Nails – Reznor releases footage of Nine Inch Nails’ current tour on BitTorrent (Copyfight) (Techdirt)

Open Your Eyes Records – Record label, Open Your Eyes Records, teams up with What.cd BitTorrent tracker (TorrentFreak)

Osi Codes – Copyright and trade mark infringement claims arising from alleged domain hijacking: Osi Codes, Inc v Elie Priner et al (The Trademark Blog)

Project Playlist – Project Playlist inks Sony deal, gets booted from Facebook (Ars Technica) (Techdirt)

RIAA – Changing tack, RIAA ditches MediaSentry (ContentAgenda)

RIAA – Harvard team asks court to allow broadcast of Tenenbaum case against RIAA (Techdirt) (Ars Technica)

RIAA – No one can find ISPs who have agreed to RIAA’s 3 strikes plan (Techdirt)

RIAA – RIAA abandons suing policy for pirating songs (Fastcase) (IP Watchdog)

RIAA – RIAA appeal in Jammie Thomas file-sharing case refused (Ars Technica) (ContentAgenda)

Warner Music – Warner Music musicians angered over YouTube dispute (Techdirt)

OnlineNIC loses one cybersquatting lawsuit and gets sued in another: Verizon California, Inc v OnlineNIC Inc and Yahoo! Inc v OnlineNIC, Inc (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (The Trademark Blog) (Class 46) (Internet Cases)

Facebook – Facebook sues social networking aggregator Power.com for trade mark and copyright infringement, unlawful competition (Techdirt) (Out-Law) (Law360)

Perez Hilton – Gossip website Perez Hilton sues PerezRevenge.com on trade mark and ‘frivolous’ DMCA cause (The Trademark Blog)

District Court E D Virginia: Specification and claim language helps patent escape ‘divided infringement’ on summary judgment: Level 3 Communications v Limelight Networks (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog)

District Court E D of Texas: Ariba awarded $6M in after jury finds infringement in online auction patent case against Emptoris (Law360)

Patent Office grants EFF’s request for re-examination of Seer Systems’ patent on internet music files (EFF) (Techdirt)

Aloft – Aloft takes action against Yahoo, Google and AOL over new instant messaging patent (Law360)

Cygnus Systems – Google, Apple, Microsoft sued by Cygnus Systems over patent for thumbnail icons (Techdirt) (IP Watchdog)

Illinios Computer Research – ICR, Scott Harris sue Oprah Winfrey’s book club for infringement of patent covering ‘enhancing touch and feel on the internet’ (Techdirt) (Ars Technica) (The Prior Art) (RelatIP)

Prism Technologies – Prism sues Microsoft, RIM over internet security patent (Law360)

Quito Enterprises – Quito sues Netflix, Amazon and others over web media patent (Law360)

SCO Group – Bankrupt SCO Group asks to stay $2.5M payout in Novell feud (Law360)

Stambler, Leon – Plains Capital Corp latest to settle patent infringement claims brought by Florida man Leon Stambler against numerous financial institutions over online banking services (Law360)

TransAuction – TransAuction, uBid settle online auction patent suit (Law360)

Verizon – Charter sues Verizon alleging infringement of patents covering video-on-demand services, subscription-on-demand services and data transmission (Ars Technica)

Worlds.com – Game developer, NCSoft sued by Worlds.com over virtual world patent (Law360) (RelatIP)