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Peter Needed a Jew... Bourne Co Needed a Lesson in Fair Use

Congress derives its power to enact copyright laws from the copyright clause, U.S. Const. Art. I § 8, which reads:

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Do Ads in Google News Search Change the Fair Use Analysis?

Last Wednesday, Google began including advertisements in its Google News search results in the United States. The next day, Zachary Rodgers at ClickZ speculated that this move might stir major media companies to sue Google for copyright infringement, and

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Hot News Case - The Dialogue Continues

The purpose of copyright is to "promote progress." We achieve this promotion by giving authors a limited monopoly over their works so that they may profit from them. This is what is known as "the incentive theory." If we give authors the incentive to create works, they will create more of them, thus adding ideas and expression to the marketplace. On the other hand, we don't give copyright protection to mere facts.

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Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel Reinstated After Fox Declines to Sue

Late last week, YouTube reinstated Progress Illinois' YouTube channel after Fox Television declined to sue for copyright infringement within the 10 day window prescribed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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Thoughts on the Value of Journalism in the Wake of GateHouse v. New York Times Settlement

The fallout from the GateHouse v. New York Times settlement, anticlimactic as it was, has been fascinating, and deliciously exhaustive in the way that only Internet-based discussions of Internet-related issues can be.

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GateHouse Media v. New York Times Settles

Zach Seward, assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab, reports that the parties in GateHouse Media v.

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Judge Gertner Postpones Webcast of Hearing in P2P File Sharing Case

United States District Court Judge Nancy Gertner has postponed what would have been the first live webcast of a federal court hearing scheduled for tomorrow in order to give the plaintiffs in the case an opportunity to seek appellate review of her decision allowing video cameras into her Boston courtroom.

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Federal Judge in Boston Orders Groundbreaking Webcast of Hearing

United States District Court Judge Nancy Gertner agreed today to allow video cameras into her Boston courtroom to provide live Internet coverage of a hearing next Thursday in the lawsuit against Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum, who allegedly downloaded seven songs illegally over a peer-to-peer network.

Background on the case from Judge Gertner's order:

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Lessig and Colbert Mix It Up Over Remix Culture

Last Thursday, cyberlaw luminary and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig appeared on the Colbert Report to discuss his new book Remix.

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Fox Television Forces Shutdown of Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel

Progress Illinois, which "provides online news and commentary on issues important to Illinois working families and the progressive movement at large," has had its YouTube channel terminated after receiving three notices of copyright infringement from Fox Television Stations, Inc. arising from the organization's use of news footage from WFLD-TV, the Fox affiliate in Chicago.

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Peter Needed a Jew... Bourne Co Needed a Lesson in Fair Use

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Do Ads in Google News Search Change the Fair Use Analysis?

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Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel Reinstated After Fox Declines to Sue

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Thoughts on the Value of Journalism in the Wake of GateHouse v. New York Times Settlement

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GateHouse Media v. New York Times Settles

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Judge Gertner Postpones Webcast of Hearing in P2P File Sharing Case

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Federal Judge in Boston Orders Groundbreaking Webcast of Hearing

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Lessig and Colbert Mix It Up Over Remix Culture

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