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Merrill Lynch to Financial Blogger: Don't Quote Our Bearish Reports

Felix Salmon of Reuters reports that the pseudonymous lead blogger behind the financial blog Zero Hedge received DMCA takedown notices for six posts that cited or excerpted from Merrill Lynch reports authored by Merrill's former chief economist, David Rosenberg. According to Salmon, Zero Hedge is "an insider financial blog whose writers believe the worst of the mel

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YouTube Restores National Organization for Marriage Video Outside DMCA Parameters, Cites Fair Use

Ben Sheffner reports that YouTube has restored the National Organization for Marriage ("NOM")'s "No Offense" video without waiting for the expiration of the

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Perez Hilton Sends DMCA Takedown Over Anti-Gay-Marriage Ad

The blogosphere is buzzing about Perez Hilton's recent foray into copyright bullying.

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Whatever Happened to Playing Fair?

A few recent intellectual property disputes have highlighted the fact that the decision to pursue legal action is both a legal and a moral choice. While concepts such as "fair use" help to ensure protection of both intellectual property rights while promoting creative expression, they can't replace a simple concept we all learned in kindergarten: "treat others the way you’d like them to treat you."

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AP Tells Google and Other News Aggregators to Pay Up or Face Lawsuits

The Associated Press has announced that it is willing to fight over the question of who owns the content its member newspapers produce, even if it means no longer playing nice with the giants of the Web like Google.

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Huffington Post: Web Pirate or Prophet?

I write a blog at my home newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, and when I get 10 or 20 comments on a post, I am feeling pretty good about myself. Arianna Huffington? Her site, Huffington Post, draws around a million comments a month.

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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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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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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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Merrill Lynch to Financial Blogger: Don't Quote Our Bearish Reports

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YouTube Restores National Organization for Marriage Video Outside DMCA Parameters, Cites Fair Use

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Perez Hilton Sends DMCA Takedown Over Anti-Gay-Marriage Ad

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Whatever Happened to Playing Fair?

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AP Tells Google and Other News Aggregators to Pay Up or Face Lawsuits

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Huffington Post: Web Pirate or Prophet?

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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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Fox Television Forces Shutdown of Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel

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