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Google’s victory in book-scanning case is a huge win for fair use – Huzzah! Google’s book scanning has been found to be both fair use and transformative in nature by the Second Circuit. The Author’s Guild’s protracted litigation against Google (nearly ten years now!) had numerous problems along the way, but ... more >
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Yes, One Book Can Change Your Life, Even In Prison – Reginald Dwayne Betts Jr. is a poet. He is also a memoirist with an MFA and a third (and final) year student at Yale Law School. And he got his start reading and writing poetry in prison, where he ... more >
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Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination – A provocative article on the willingness of private industry to try to narrow the global digital breach. While the public sector has a strong vested interest in digital fairness and broad-based access, it has largely been the private sector that has ... more >
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Facebook Loses Appeal on New York Search Warrants – A very significant ruling around the issue of legal standing in regard to whether social media sites like Facebook have the right to challenge search warrants served on their customers. The court held that only the defendant can challenge the warrants, ... more >
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Days numbered for illegal downloaders as crackdown is given tick of approval – New laws in Australia would allow a copyright holder to get a site blocked if there’s any evidence that the site is offering illegal content. The copyright holder needs only to apply for this injunction and there ... more >
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Dallas Buyers Club studio suing Australians faces its own monster lawsuit involving Godzilla – After aggressively pursuing alleged copyright infringers in Australia via internet service providers, the Dallas Buyers Club is now facing a lawsuit from Toho, the Japanese company that owns the rights to Godzilla, for shopping around a ... more >
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