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The Beastie Boys' Sampling and Copyright Law
TufAmerica, on behalf of Trouble Funk, recently filed a lawsuit against The Beastie Boys accusing them of copyright infringement for incorporating samples of two Trouble??Funk recordings on four Beastie Boys recordings. The case presents some complex issues of copyright law that I will try to clarify. Statute of Limitations The Beastie Boys first released the ...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says it is 'Pretty OK' on EU Anti-Trust Investigation
Google's Eric Schmidt speaks about Google's anti-trust issues, connecting the next five billion, privacy, and the company's recent Motorola acquisition.
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Pirate stomping by Google et Cie won't work, says expert
Search guys not making it easy for rights holders? No! Plans developed by search engines that would define how rights-holders engage with them over the removal of links to copyright infringing content seek to introduce new thresholds over notice and takedown standards that EU law does not require, an expert has said.…
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Outside editorial: Revenge of the Village People
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday: As a singer and songwriter for the 1970s disco group the Village People, Victor Willis scored multiple hits that helped define that era for the baby boom generation.
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New license law topic of meeting
Hawaii County held the first of a series of meetings Monday in Hilo to explain the nuances in the state’s new Legal Presence Law.
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What's at stake in Oracle v. Google?
The stakes in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android are high for developers, with the recent finding by a jury that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights by, among other things, implementing Java's application programming interfaces (APIs] for Android.
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Oracle gets a chance to rewrite software law
By arguing that programming interfaces called APIs can be copyrighted, Oracle could trigger new legal burdens for technology companies -- such as those building cloud-computing platforms. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
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Bills to Clarify Medical Marijuana Law Head to Senate
The Michigan House has passed a package of bills aimed at clarifying the state's voter-approved law allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The House passed four bills Thursday, which now
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Luke Russert’s role at ‘Grammys on the Hill’ is questioned
News reporters are supposed to avoid the impression of endorsing or favoring a cause, an industry or a political group. Did Luke Russert , one of Washington’s higher-profile journalists, violate that standard Wednesday night? Read full article >>
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Indonesia to report 'frank assessment' of human rights record
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) - The Indonesian government says it will deliver a frank assessment of the country's human rights record when it reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday.
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